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Thank you all for your kind Birthday wishes!  I had a nice relaxing time with the family plus a day off from training!

After reading Mitch's post about how cold it was during his morning run along with Scott's comment about running in shorts when it goes up to 40F in Colorado, I promise not to complain about getting cold down here in Guatemala.

Chris, I just responded your message and yes, I was getting my MBA at Kellogg at the same time that you were teaching there!   This proves again that it is such a small world that I like to say that you should always "somewhat behave", because you never know when its going to come back to you...

Double post

Had a great workout this morning!  45 minutes on the Drainer followed by 25 minutes on the treadmill.  I'm trying to ramp up my cycling while layering in running on top to maintain my base.  My goal is then to sprinkle in swimming until I get to an acceptable volume to improve endurance and speed.

What I love about BT is my ability to record fitness data and then look back in time to see where I was compared to today.  I'm doing a similar cycling plan as I did last winter so I looked back at the corresponding workout that matches today's in the plan.  Made me feel good to see progress:

Jan 4, 2011: Avg Spd 14.78; Avg HR 152; Max HR 174

Today: Avg Spd 16.28; Avg HR 151; Max HR 160

I'm actually excited to take the power test next Tuesday to see where I am compared to when I started last year.  Ideally I should be comparing to where I finished last year - but I didn't cycle much at all this season due to focsuing on running.  We shall see!

Chris:  What do you teach?  I went to Michigan for my MBA but have always had a lot of respect for Northwestern.  Its on the "approved" list for colleges for my daughters.

Cool.  I was an economics major at Michigan.  I wasn't sure if anyone here would have heard of the author of my sig-line quote...I'm guessing at least a handful of our merry band does.  What econ classes do you teach?

I've been going through some of the training struggles you have.  Part of it is the level of activities going on this month with the holidays and prep for big family events.  I'm not getting enough sleep (if I get up to train) and it impacts me the following day. 

Still no training here, completely out of focus now with a ton of work all the way until the 29th. After that I should be back full steam in fitness mode. Resuming swims after Jan 1st as well with the team. The other good news is that my new Computrainer is sitting in its box in my office, it was delivered yesterday but I'm out of town so I can't wait to go try it.

Cheers!

Great progress Mitch!  That is the one great thing about keeping a log is to see progress over time.  I was looking back at my records and noticed I've run 962 miles so far this year including the 6.16 miles today in 50:53 (avg HR 147).  I think I should make it to just over 1000 miles for the year by the end of December.  The bike miles aren't as good due to spending most of the first half of the year training for the San Diego marathon.

Last week wasn't so good for training due to it being the last week of the semester and I was swamped with grading (I teach at the US Air Force Academy).  Now that finals are over I should be able to get back into a routine.  If the stars line up just right I might even make it to the pool for a drowning session.  Jennie is taking a few days off due to a slight fall she took yesterday and tweaked her ankle.  She should be back running in a couple of days.

I've been keeping up with most of my trainings except Monday, the day after my birthday because I was exhausted and took at as an extra day off.

Today I had a 5k test at the track in the morning and then finally gave in and joined a gym in order to be able to swim anytime of day.  Today was my first swim with some of the top triathletes in Guatemala and it was exhausting trying to keep up with them (but I guess what doesn't kill you makes you stronger).  And now to end my day, I have to go to a Christmas party, but will need to behave a little since tomorrow morning is long run 

On a separate note, I got a new pair of Asics Gel Noosa's for my birthday which are really cool looking and today I tried them and totally love them.  Here is a link  http://www.runningwarehouse.com/descpageMRS-ASNSAM1.html

Hope everyone is doing well!

About the shoes, we triathletes are some flashy people, huh? I include myself in this bunch, my shoes have screaming colors.

Hey Chris, I was like wow, you have run a lot of miles and then checked mine out of curiosity and I'm also up there with you with 1,142 miles (in 176 Hrs).  It's incredible how easily you rack them when training for a marathon and other smaller races!  I have also biked 2,288 miles to date!  Never would I though I was going to do all this at the beginning of the year, when I started setting up my goals and doing my first tris!

Lot of professors in this group.  What do you teach?  I had an appointment to the Air Force Academy out of high school (years ago) but elected to go the ROTC route with the Navy instead.  Spent about 6 years in the US Navy after college.

The good thing is that all I have to do is get home and change, the bike will be already set up. I looked at the videos yesterday and they are incredibly realistic (HD). I highly recommend it for someone that's looking at improving on the bike.

Also, in the last two weeks two people got killed while riding their bikes, another thing to keep in mind, there's a lot of distracted motorists out there texting or reading their emails while driving!

I plan on doing a super majority of my bike training in the next year on my trainer.  Hopefully once a week I'll be able to drive to one of our metro parks and cycle in relative safety.

Ernesto, glad to hear that you got your new CT, let us know your first impressions after you get to use it.

Mitch, glad to hear you have your pain cave all set up, enjoy!  

Kuddos to you Chris for running in those temperatures!

On my side, I have been keeping up with most of my trainings (2 X day) and today was a 3 hr/41 Mi bike ride with good climbing and strong headwinds.  

Hope everyone has a good weekend

I too have to apologise for the silence. It is like an off season for me here too, since I could only dream of riding a bike, what to speak of swimming. On top of that a large part of North Bogota is flooded and my previous plans to join the tri fans are pretty much dead.  However, I just came back from a 21k run! Managed to do it in 'blistering' 2:04 and that includes some walking, as I could not possibly run this distance non-stop here. I missed oxygen again...  As I was walking home, the local running club was staging a 10k race and I wish I signed up for that one instead, would be fun to share the pain with others. Interesting thing - they ran on the streets that were not closed to traffic at all! Good thing it's Sunday morning...

Absolutely, I will accept new people as well.