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Right as I got to the mount line I saw my dad and Wendy walking up, and I yelled hi to them, climbed on the bike, and took off up the hill. I passed a few people just by having the bike in an easy gear and riding up instead of trying to jog it…
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We arrived at the race site, pulled the bikes off the car. I pulled the tireless wheel off the back of my bike and got this disc out of the car. Yet it wouldn’t go on my bike! It didn’t appear to be hitting anything, and it had been on before, but neither Lisa nor…
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It has been commented that I am a slacker, and was lazy this last week. After all, since Wednesday all I did was drive, eat, sleep, and a single workout. Yet here is the story of that single workout (in the next few posts) and you can be the judge. Short version of all of…
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The alarm has gone off. Our transition bags are packed, and our run shoes dropped off. It’s just before 4… time for breakfast and the drive to the start. It should be great weather for the day. My family is heading down to watch, and Holly is already prepared for a wetsuit handoff after the…
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I hope Vineman is ready for me and Lisa! I’m off to pick her up and our journey continues with a fun drive up north!
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Only 3 days, 17:23:40 to go til Vineman’s start! My bike is cleaned, my trifuel jersey ready to be packed, and my toenails are painted grape colors. Now to just do the actual packing!!
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So my bike is about ready for Vineman… (click here for a bigger pic. You can ignore the mess in the picture… we are also in the middle of moving and have to be done the weekend after Vineman so you can imagine the craziness) I still need an adapter for the presta valve so…
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My bike is getting totally sexified for Vineman. It’s gonna be so hott… I just hope I don’t get so distracted by it that I forget to pedal! Upgrades round 1: new Continental Grand Prix tires (black) and a new xlab rear bottle cage setup! The color isn’t great in the pic (phone camera) but…
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Again a post where the title probably makes me laugh more than anyone. Oh well… it is numbers, and they will probably be numbing to minds other than mine. In my worries of Vineman, I took a comparative look at the training the 4 months before IMAZ and the training these last 4 months. IMAZ…
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I typed the title, and then read it not as “thoughts about tapering” but that my thoughts themselves are tapering off. I figured it works, given how sucky I have been about maintaining my online personality lately. Sorry, I’ll be back more reliably someday. However, it is taper time. And I’m finding it hard to…