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Tuesday - May 19

Sport

Walking
20m

Today started out not that great, I was not happy because of the injury and then I received this email ...

Dear Robert Lejeune,

Entry Number:

Congratulations! You have been accepted to run the ING New York City Marathon 2009 on Sunday, November 1. On behalf of New York Road Runners, I welcome you to the 40th running of the world's greatest marathon. One of the things that makes this race so special is runners like you from around the world, and we're hard at work preparing to give you the experience of a lifetime.

Shortly after June 1, you'll receive an e-mail from us that will include a link to our runner login page. From this page you can provide or verify your emergency race-day contact information, supply information that will allow us to assign your race-day transportation to the start, cancel your entry if needed, take advantage of special offers for marathon entrants, and more.

In the meantime, please consider using your marathon experience as an opportunity to raise money for charity. Visit our charities page for more information.

We'll be in touch frequently between now and race day, as we'll post the latest news on theING New York City Marathon site. We look forward to seeing you in November!

Sincerely,

Mary Wittenberg
President and CEO, New York Road Runners
Race Director, ING New York City Marathon

WOOOO HOOOOOOOOO!!!

I hate being injured so much, I should have go out and run this morning and instead of that I am just sitting here and doing nothing ...

I will go ride tonight after work, but besides that not much today I guess.

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Monday - May 18

Sport #1

Stretching
20m

Streched the ITBand a lot and did some foam rolling too, damn we are weird to keep hurting ourselves like that ;)

After that I went outside to work on my yard a bit and to clean the pool, I am still hoping that one day it will be warm enough to swim in it :)

Sport #2

Yard Work
1h 00m

I am not sure yet for today, I might go for a smooth ride in the afternoon.

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Sunday - May 17

Bike #1

15m
5.00 kms
20.00 KM/hr

Just a little ride to move the legs, distance and time are approximated

Run #1

06m 27s
1.20 kms
05m 23s /KM

Little warm up to start the day.

Run #2

21m 33s
5.00 kms
04m 19s /KM

The first 5k

Bike #2

1h 01m 29s
33.00 kms
32.20 KM/hr

Run #3

13m 51s
2.50 kms
05m 32s /KM

Then the 2.5k, damn my ITBand was REALLY pissed at me by that time. I had a hard time running

Race report is done, enjoy ;)

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I am back from the Duathlon, damn it was windy out there. I will work on the race report soon ... but for now I need a beer

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Finally it looks like the rain won't be with us for today's race

But the wind sure will be though, 20 mph gusting at 32mph ... Lets see how fun it will be.

I am heading there, cya all later

RACE DAY: Duathlon Sorel-Tracy

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Saturday - May 16

Bike

47m 13s
21.02 kms
26.71 KM/hr

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Friday - May 15

Bike #1

22m 21s
8.40 kms
22.55 KM/hr

Ride to and from the pool. Took the mountain bike, too scared that someone would steal my roadie.

Swim

45m
1800.00 meters
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Ok ok I said no swimmy but I went during lunch finally ;)

200 breast
1000 free
4 * 100 free
200 pull

Bike #2

2h 01m 50s
43.06 kms
21.21 KM/hr

Since I was not working today and the weather was really nice I went for a ride with my wife.

Plan was to go swimmy this morning, but I had a sushi and wine diner with friends yesterday night that finished pretty late so I just slept instead

I am off today though, so I will look around if there's a pool open during the day or I will go out and ride. It will probably be a ride to be honest

We had some huge winds yesterday, here's the result. BTW this is a "Car Body Specialist" sign that fell on the car. Ok I am not too sure of the translation here ;) But it's a place where they fix cars after you crashed them.

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Thursday - May 14

Run

19m 45s
3.50 kms
05m 38s /KM

My plan was to run an easy 5k but I just ran 3.5km finally, I felt the ITB pretty early during the run. I am not happy about it, I have my duathlon in three days and having ITB issues will just slow me down.

I was aiming some speed on that Du to start the season, dammit

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Wednesday - May 13

Bike

1h 15m
28.00 kms
22.40 KM/hr

Nice little ride with my wife again, weather was too gorgeous to go swim tonight

Tonight is Master's night, not much besides that on tap. I did some stretching again this morning to try to get that ITB back on the track for Sunday's Du.