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Friday - August 14

Bike

1h 00m
20.66 miles
20.66 Mi/hr

Intervals on the CT

Working from home today. They are practicing for the airshow. Just saw a formation of a P-51, A-10, F-16, and F-22 fly by. Pretty cool. When they come north they turn around right over my house. Get a great view from our rooftop deck.

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Thursday - August 13

Run

1h 09m 28s
8.05 miles
08m 38s /Mi

Ran home from work. Distance is a guess as garmin had trouble the first mile keeping a signal in the loop.

Ran into Miami9296 out there. Finally got to meet her in person. She really does exist.

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Wednesday - August 12

Swim

25m 51s
1500.00 yards
01m 43s /100 yards

Quick swim at lunch. I'm getting pretty burned out right now. Going to take a long break after Chicago Marathon

Bike

1h 10m
24.55 miles
21.04 Mi/hr

VQ Ride.

Did a 10 minute warmup and then 3 X 15 LT sets at anywhere from 92 - 96%. Had a 5 minute recovery between. Tough ride, but good.

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Tuesday - August 11

Doing nothing tonight. Yesterday was our 7th wedding anniversary and we are celebrating tonight. Going to dinner.

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Monday - August 10

Run

26m
3.01 miles
08m 38s /Mi

Quick run at lunch.

Got an email back from the race director today. She said that the course yesterday was properly measured and that the wind caused everybody's time to be long in the water. She also suggested that I learn to breath on both sides when swimming, I'll take that into consideration. I guess the fact that the swim is due east at dawn didn't factor into the equation at all. I'm done with RAM events and am not going to be purchasing anything from their store going forward. This race was up there with a Frank Dobbs race, in terms of magnitude of ineptness. The race director is a moron.

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Sunday - August 9

Swim

40m 27s
1640.00 yards
02m 28s /100 yards

No effing way this was an Olympic Distance. My last two 1/2 Ironman's have had faster swim times. Considering I can hold a 1:50 pace for IM, this was way off.

Swim course was terrible. No bouys to sight off of, directly into the sun, disgusting murky and weedy water. I hope I don't get a disease from the water.

Bike

1h 18m 26s
24.85 miles
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Bike course was short. Extremly hot and windy. My stomach was jacked from the swim and I ended up throwing up at mile 6, which killed my race.

Run

1h 05m 07s
6.20 miles
10m 30s /Mi

This was just survival. Heat was unbearable, my body was struggling from no fuel. I took a few GU's during the run which helped. They had plenty of water, but the sports drink was HEED at the point of boiling. Couldn't stomach that crap.

This was a lot of walk\run. I would run a couple of minutes and walk a few minutes.

That was terrible. 3:09:xx. Lots of walking. Overall highly disappointed in the organization of this race. I thought RAM racing was supposed to be top notch, was not impressed with any aspect of them.