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GOOD LUCK RACERS!!!!!
Tri-Man what's your magic word for your race? (BQ?)
Bailed on running today - my 3 yd old has been sick and it's been a tough week. Plus I have to do my long run (18) tomorrow because we're driving down to KY on Sunday so I didn't feel like stacking my runs. And it was raining. AND... I'm a wimp. HTFU!!
Anyway even though I'll be on the road by 9am on Sunday I will be thinking about the racers and checking in here when I can.
Tri-Man what's your magic word for your race? (BQ?)
Bailed on running today - my 3 yd old has been sick and it's been a tough week. Plus I have to do my long run (18) tomorrow because we're driving down to KY on Sunday so I didn't feel like stacking my runs. And it was raining. AND... I'm a wimp. HTFU!!
Anyway even though I'll be on the road by 9am on Sunday I will be thinking about the racers and checking in here when I can.
uck (or Chad or Don) .. did it ..So can I ..Stride ......Breathe .....(repeat)Or heck, I'll just find some hot babe running 8:10-8:15/mile and follow behind her (her behind?).
I even got pulled in by the lovely spokes-model at the laser hair removal booth. She promised that if I win the $1,500 free treatment I can put it towards lasering my noggin so I'll never have to shave it again. Much like a stirpper, I think she may have been telling me what I wanted to hear. A 1:50 time from Chicago got me way up front in corral C (A&B go at the gun @ 7:15, C is next 2-minutes later 
). My wife is in H so I have a bit of a wait for her. IF I can park close, I'll be able to go get some warm gear for the both of us. I am breaking the rule of "don't try anything new on race day", but just a bit. Brooks has just come out with a tech top with rear (back) pockets like my tri top, so I snagged one. I prefer to fish my beans out of the back pockets versus getting them out of my race belt and have spilled more than a 1/2 a bag of beans getting them out of the belt. I'll have a race tested shirt underneath, so I not go all that crazy.
. I ain't moving for a while.
My goal was to beat 55:00 since I knew I had made significant progress since my last 5K race 3 weeks ago (27:59). This time out I had the great advantage of not going out the night before to a Mexican restaurant! Another advantage was the drop in temperature. At start time (8am) it was around 62 degrees - a far cry from the mid to high 80's I have been training in for the last few weeks.I have my Garmin set up to take Kilometer splits and I was especially glad of that today as the Mile markers were definitely dubious. After hitting 4:55 for the first K, I allegedly hit 1 mile in 6:44!I went through 5K in 26:11 (8:27 pace). I wasn't quite able to maintain that pace for the 2nd half and finished in 53:11. This placed me 38th out of 81 finishers (there was a 5K as well which had 156 finishers). In my age group I came in 5th (out of 5!) - just 39 seconds behind 3rd 
So I set a PR on American soil (some way behind my all time record of 43:28 set 15 years ago in England) eclipsing my awful 62:23 on the Beach in 2007! We don't have many 10K's in these parts.So now it is 2 weeks to the Daytona Beach Half and I'll be hoping to beat last year's performance of 2:00:38 (but I was 20 pounds lighter last year).Good luck to everyone with their races this weekend.
I am now in the 45-49 age. Oddly enough, I would also have come 5th in the 35-39 group (and also the 55-59 group!).
. I ain't moving for a while.
And I am concentrating on running through the winter - so most of my action is there. As can be seen from my results my runs have been the weak point by a pretty good margin. I am getting better, though, and hope to improve substantially next year. I am maintaining on the swim and bike for the most part.Learning proper swimming is tough - much more technical than the other two. It can be done, though.
Remind me again why we do this. Air temp, 31; wind chill, 28; hours slept, something between zero & 4 becuase some 11-year old girl thought it was cute to call my son at around 11pm waking me up and making it tough to fall back asleep 
Only thing to do now is hook up with 19,000 other people and go for a run.
Only thing to do now is hook up with 19,000 other people and go for a run.
How'd it go??
I had a bag of beans in the corral, a Hammer Gel at mile 4, bag of beans at mile 6 and another at 10. No so sure what this was all about. Fun race. A freighter went right under the bridge to Canada as I was running over and blew its fog horn. It vibrated the entire bridge. BTW, you guys are right about the BIB being my passort for the day. I had to show it at pick up and you could not enter either country without it showing. Each year, they arrest several "bandits". Just put down a couple of dogs off the grill with a Pacifico. Off to nappy land while watching your pack destroy my Lions. 
want to celebrate, but thought he needed a 3:36. Is that for 2010, but the 3:41 gets him in for 2011? eta, might have found the answer, there is an age up rule. He is 54, 55 gets him to 3:45 for the following year. Sounds like it is time to 
WTG TRI-MAN!!!!!
That's exactly right. Your qualifying time is based on your age on the day of the Boston Marathon, thus his qualifying time for 2011 is 3:45 – and he can be 53 or 54 when he runs the qualifying race. He actually texted me and said that he had nice pacing for 20 miles before he had to shorten his stride and settle for his secondary goal.In short, 
(I will this week, as I plan on doing 6 on Tues. then 8 on Thurs.).
WTG TRI-MAN!!!!!
