How cool! Keep us posted on the training. It looks brutal. I can't think of a better way to celebrate turning 40!
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12-19-2009, 04:13 AM #1
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12-19-2009, 08:11 AM #2
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Congrats!! I had a friend who did that last year. She said it was amazing, but brutal. Be sure to wear a neoprene cap and a couple swim caps for the swim. She said it was the toughest part of the race- but also the most exciting.
What an amazing birthday gift to yourself!
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12-30-2009, 04:21 PM #3
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Check out the sand stairs, after an up and downhill run, plus a tough bike ride, I tried out some of the course....
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12-30-2009, 04:46 PM #4
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wow- that's crazy steep!
My friend who did that tri said that was the pretty brutal (aside from jumping in the frigid water- but it makes you swim faster, right?).
It still looks like a lot of fun, tho...
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01-07-2010, 06:56 AM #5
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Started training for escape on the 1st of January, got 100 mins a day in until the 4th, then got a horrific stomach flu and fighting off dehydration, swam yesterday anyway, but basically have missed 3 days and will probably miss tomorrow. So only 7 days into the training have missed 3, arg!
frustrating, plus I don't start teaching until the 12th, so these were extra precious training days, once the semester starts, well I am just fatigued most of the time.
jan, feb, and march are my key training months.
The good news is, that I was first overall in my category 35-39 in Colombia for 2009, not because I WON any races, but because I was consistent about racing and finishing, so racked up points. 1/15, not a big field of course.
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01-07-2010, 12:25 PM #6
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Stomach flu.
Originally Posted by tribogota
Started training for escape on the 1st of January, got 100 mins a day in until the 4th, then got a horrific stomach flu and fighting off dehydration, swam yesterday anyway, but basically have missed 3 days and will probably miss tomorrow. So only 7 days into the training have missed 3, arg! frustrating, plus I don't start teaching until the 12th, so these were extra precious training days, once the semester starts, well I am just fatigued most of the time.
jan, feb, and march are my key training months.
The good news is, that I was first overall in my category 35-39 in Colombia for 2009, not because I WON any races, but because I was consistent about racing and finishing, so racked up points. 1/15, not a big field of course.
Hope you're feeling better and able to get back to training soon.
Hey, it's still a success, take what you can get!! Congrats.
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01-07-2010, 10:30 PM #7
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Seems pretty wonderful, still! Good for you, kiddo. Hoping you feel better very soon. Originally Posted by tribogota
"My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved;I have been given much and I have given something in return...Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and an adventure." O. Sacks
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01-11-2010, 12:53 PM #8
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Totally over the flu and since I didn't eat for three days seemed to have lost 2 of the 5 lbs my coach wants me to lose.
Yesterday we did a fabulous brick, and it was very much like the race route,
we went up 8k of steep on the bike, came down, did 5 intervals of a very steep hill (have to be out of the saddle), then left our bikes with the coach and RAN up the 8k steep that we had cycled up. I loved it.
Today we did stadium stairs, did NOT love that...
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