Elaine's Awesome Start to 2012 Group! - Closed! (Page 21)

This weekend - local Sprint Tri

April - USAT Duathlon Nationals - not because I'm good or I qualified, but because its in Tucson I'm gonna get my butt kicked because it's taking out my best sport!!

after that, a lot is up in the air...

Rev3 Portland in July for sure.

I'd love to go to USAT Nationals, but I think all of my traveling will be to Rev3 races.

Rev3 Florida is likely. 

And I'm hoping I can convince my boyfriend that it's a good idea for me to volunteer for IMAZ and sign up for the next year

Don't know if you've stumbled across www.trimapper.com but it's pretty useful. Gives you a nice visualization of nearby and far-away races. It's definitely not a comprehensive list of EVERY tri, but it's a start.

Keep it up!!

I definitely got tired of the weekend long run while marathon training. It'll all be worth it! Mix it up, run different routes, run at different times, run with an audiobook... just KEEP running All of the training will pay off on race day!

Keep doing what you've been doing, and I bet you qualify

Good luck! Practice those transitions!

My race list is kind of crazy. because I am a kind of crazy girl! I got my tooth pulled last week and it shut me down!! Who knew. But maybe it didnt help I ran a 10k 3 days later. But now I just about healled up to get on a bike and in a pool!!!

Color Run March 31

April: an 8k, a possible Dulathon .I havent been on a bike yet so I am weary about signing up. Ill see  And I am doing the Fight for Air climb.  45 flights of stairs up in support of the American Ling Association.

May gets funny. I found a super sprint tri I think I want to try as my first.  I wanted to do Iron Girl but my lack of being on a bike or a pool has me weary. So Im goingt o see how things progress when I get back into things next week. And of course a Cinco de Mayo 5k!!! And I want to do warrior dash!

June starts Marathon training and Ill be doing small local races to work on speed. I want to get a few sprint tris in during the summer its just getting the first one out of the way!

And both sound AWESOME!!!

I suppose my "A" race is IMKS 70.3.  In May have a 5150 series OLY (K.C. Tri), June is the HIM then in July the Shawnee Mission Tri, I"ll probably do the sprrint.  There are also other races, not sure what I'll do at this point.  Might do the Branson HIM in September.

My wife and myself are off to a swim clinic for triathletes this weekend! I am excited!

So, how was everyone's weekend?

I finished my USAT Level I Coaching Clinic - I'm one test away from being a coach! Do you have any questions about the clinic?

I did fairly well in my tri this weekend, too. I really needed that. I was feeling slow and my motivation was fairly low - now I feel refreshed and ready to start the season!!

The Swim Clinic my wife and me attended was great! We learned a lot of new drills that I think are going to really improve our swimming.

Elaine, How long is the total course?

A pretty good weekend for me.  My second outdoor ride of this year and it was a 50 miler with 20 mph Kansas winds!  Winds were from the south so going out it was tough.  Now I know why I don't use a cycle computer because I don't want to know how slow I was going into that wind.  About 30 miles of it was crosswinds, only about 10 was right into it.  Coming back I thought I'd be able to kick it in but my legs were toast.  Still a good overall ride though.  I rested yesterday but got my arse up this morning while it was still dry.  It's pouring rain right now and won't stop until the wee hours of the night.

Looking forward the the RR Elaine!

It's a two day course - 9 hours per day. There was also an additional CEU class offered Friday night. 

Not enough time to be fully comprehensive, but they did use the time very, very well.

Nice ride!!!

My Race Report will start with mentioning the 6-8 beers I got, and the 3 hours of sleep. Oops. I was so dehydrated.

Quiet in here this week.

Whats everyone up to?

I have been training this week, but I have also been slammed at work!

You guys know I will get the conversation started!

So lets all post a cool picture of ourself! I will start. This was the day I got my Cervelo P3!

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NICE! You took the price tag off before you took her on the road, right?

I think it's the Official Mentor Group Crazy Busy Work Crackdown week. For real!

Keep that stress low!

Of course not!

Can't wait to get my Flo Wheels on it!