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For now I’m just riding with the PT and seeing what I see. While riding the PT is pretty easy to use — the buttons are easy to press in gloves, and once you get used to how they scroll through screens it becomes pretty easy to see the information you wanted to see. It…
Continue reading PowerTap — using it and uploading to computer
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Santa came early and dropped off PowerTap SL 2.4 wheels (the wireless version) for Mike and me! A number of people have expressed interest in our learning process with them, so I’m going to blog our progress of getting up to speed and learning to make the most out of them in our training. We…
Continue reading PowerTap night 1 & day 1 — the setup & the first ride
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Ok so I haven’t been posting here a lot. Just so much of life going on — and work! So things are good, and here is a fun story of my Thanksgiving weekend with Mike. To see a pic fullsize just click on it. Enjoy! It all started Thursday morning as we headed off to…
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Having no set training schedule for the day, and a 3 day weekend, and Mike’s new mountain bike still being too clean, we decided to head up to Big Bear Lake for some kayaking and mountain biking on Sunday. However, we didn’t count on fires closing the road up on the side of the mountain…
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“Billy Edwards, who finished 13th, preferred to go shoeless during the 112-mile cycling portion” (From the Courier-Journal in Louisville on Aug 27th, the day after IM Louisville)
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Ten months ago I signed up both Mike and myself for Ironman Louisville (aka IMKY). Starting soon after I began my training with Mike’s guidance – getting in more, and more quality, training than ever before. A week ago it was time, and we travelled out to Kentucky for the big day. Vineman 70.3 had…
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Having the job of packing tonight makes IMKY seem really really real. I’ve gotten a number of wishes for good luck both for me and Mike — thanks all 🙂 For those of you who want to track us, I’m #604, he’s #527. Some thoughts going into this race, about what I’ve done differently than…
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And I don’t mean the thoughts and plans and goals kind of dreams. I mean the kind that have me get in super workouts while I sleep, letting me wake up feeling I should be done with exercise for the day. This time it was the same race I’ve dreamed about before. Along a canal…
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I promise I will try to catch up someday… I can no longer read journals at work that are obviously blogs (sites like blogger, LiveJournal, etc). But I will someday log on at home again! Miss you!
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So leaving CVS with new boxes of bandages, Mike was slowly getting into the car and the lady parked next to us walked up. She said not to worry, and then saw his wrapped leg and told him to take care of his knee and again not to hurry… she wouldn’t run over him. And…