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Thread: Post a pic of you!
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09-08-2010, 12:25 PM #191
lol... very true... my buddy had the camcorder running and was able to freeze frame that shot as a pic.... i love it!
geoff2014 Mondo with da flow!!! Exile towers, stock everything else.... for now!
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09-09-2010, 08:23 AM #192Sled491 Guest
Gotta love the Yellow Moombas
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09-09-2010, 08:33 PM #193Sled491 Guest
Yep, used to Run Pro on the National circuit for Polaris.
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09-10-2010, 08:56 AM #194Senior Member
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09-10-2010, 11:44 AM #195
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09-10-2010, 11:53 PM #196Sled491 Guest
Z your killing me
Canuckle, I have personal friends that were former Canadian National Ski team members. They both have many world cup medals, and one if not both have olympic medals and the one has a well know brother who was also on the National team who also won both world cup and olympic medals
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09-12-2010, 10:11 AM #197Senior Member
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Well we did it!!! MrsZ and I completed our first Triathlon yesterday at Mexico Beach Florida!!!!
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09-12-2010, 10:59 AM #1982007 Outback - SOLD June 2016
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"When you first start out with something new, you're always a little uptight." - Don Rickles
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09-12-2010, 12:10 PM #199Senior Member
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It was a USAT Meet. We did the Sprint Version, .35 mile swim (about 600 yards), 15 mile bike and 5k (3.2 mile) run. We started training in June when MrsZ bought her a Fuji Finest 2.0 bike and I purchased a Cannondale CAAD 9 -6 bike. I love the Cannondale, it is the most comfortable bike I have ever owned. We signed up for adult swimming classes at the local college during the summer and have been swimming 3 nights a week. The instructor is helping us with endurance and freestyle. Poor MrsZ can smoke me in the pool but her excitement level was so high during the swim she couldn't catch her breath and ended up swimming most of it doing the sidestroke (today her hips are killing her). It was our first ever meet and the intention was not to worry about what place we finished but to get experience doing it for the first time.
The swim was wild as there were hundred of these Large round mellon shaped jellyfish. They do not sting but when I was swimming I kept thinking I was hitting another swimmer in the head and when I looked it was these jellyfish. I shattered my average speed on a bike but I paid for it during the run ( I use a Garmin 310XT but did not look at it during the ride so I didn't know what pace I was going (20mph)). I could hardly walk when I got off the bike. I had to walk the first mile of the run before I could get my legs to cooperate with my brain.
The transitions were where I did the worst, I was way too slow but again I wasn't sure exacty how to proceed. Like walking the bike out of the transition area before you can mount them, trying to go fast but at the same time trying to catch your breath and put your shoes on.
Would you believe a 78 year old man finished in 19th place out of 120!!!!
All and all it was a blast and we are going to recover and sign up for more!!! I just need to practice more Bike to Run bricks!!!Last edited by zegm; 09-12-2010 at 12:20 PM.
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09-12-2010, 01:03 PM #200Sled491 Guest
Dude that is awsum. My wife used to love those sprint events.
I agree the transitions are the biggest learning curves. Special shoes, one pc no change Tri suits, etc, etc. Women need to learn to pee in the grass as there putting on there shoes and things like that. You can call it gross but a triathalon is zero wasted time and energy. Gel energy paks at the tansition is another lesson learned. Giant bottles of water can cause stomach problems.
My wife used to have problems with the swim, she didn't like all the swimmers bumping into and sometimes running over her, it really freaked her out