Remember This
As I am eating a Hersey chocolate bar this afternoon, I notice printing on the inside wrapping:
“Candy is a treat. Please consume in moderation.”
Now they tell me.
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6/26/2006
6/25/2006
Brick
Biked 50 miles total to Phippsburg and back via Stagecoach then attempted a brick with an 8 minute run. Felt like crap; but I did it.
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6/21/2006
Video of 5430 Sprint on June 18
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6/19/2006
from my favorite blog: http://www.throughth3wall.com/
“And I was right. At the mile three marker of the 10K, I realized that like that, I canit do it.
THAT, is worrying about numbers, about getting passed by super-rookies regardless of why, doubting myself or chastising myself. …I didnit sign up for this racket to win medals. I did it because I wanted to overcome obstacles. Hard, trying to break you obstacles. So, on mile three, I got over myself. “
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“What It Takes” Triathlon Movie Offers Sneak Preview
From insidetri.comSEATTLE,*WA - Triathlon fans’ wait is almost over. “What It Takes”, the documentary profiling four Ironman triathletes, will debut in the coming months through film festivals and selected distribution partners. Until those arrangements are finalized, the triathlon community can get an early peek at the movie’s first few minutes at http://www.witmovie.com/video.php?clip=teaser and a newly updated trailer at http://www.witmovie.com/video.php?clip=trailer. More clips will be released in coming weeks.*
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Denver Danskin Triathlon - July 16 2006
I just signed up for the Denver Danskin. I’m going to do it with Melissa. It should be fun. We are doing it as a mixed age group instead of the age group that I normally do. This means 3 weekends in a row of triathlons in July. Yickes.
Race Distance: Swim - 1/2 mile, Bike - 12 miles, Run - 3.1 miles
Since I did this race last year I will be able to see if there is any true*improvement.
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6/18/2006
5430 - Sprint Triathlon Result
| Overall Rank | Class Rank | Swim | Swim Rank | Trans1 | Bike | Bike Rank | MPH | Trans2 | Run | Run Rank | Pace | Sex Rank | Final |
| 724 of 1067 | 56 of 105 | 00:20:26 | 809 | 00:02:48 | 00:56:38 | 730 | 18.2 | 00:02:31 | 00:28:37 | 653 | 00:09:14 | 279 | 01:51:02 |
Total Time: 01:51:02.* Didn’t really feel well during most of this race. Although, the swim was the best swim so far. I was able to actually freestyle and not hyperventilate. Low energy during the bike, and the run felt slow. It was very hot during the run so I’m going to start running mid-day. Felt like crap the first 2 hours after the race. My times on each event are minimally better than last year. I’m going to justify my 700+ place on the phenomenal athletes in Boulder. *
I need to train harder on all 3 sports. The next triathlon July 23rd is going to be longer and hotter: 1.5k swim 42k bike, and*10K run.
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From insidetri.com
Triathlon Season Set To Begin In Boulder - Top Pros Among 1,200 Expected Athletes
This report filed - June 7, 2006
BOULDER, CO*- A sold out field of 1,200 athletes will compete in the 2nd Annual 5430 Sprint Triathlon on June 18, 2006 at the Boulder Reservoir in Boulder, CO. Among those expected to race are last week’s Escape from Alcatraz Champion, Matt Reed (ranked #7 in the world in 2005) and Laura Bennett, currently ranked #2 in the world by the International Triathlon Union (ITU). The race consists of a*1/2 mile swim, 17 mile bike, and 3.1 mile run.
“The Inaugural 5430 Sprint was such a huge success last year with 1,000 athletes, we decided to give a few more the opportunity to see why Boulder is truly the “Mecca of Triathlon” in the United States,” says Barry Siff, Race Director. Just as an example as to the caliber of triathletes currently residing and training in Boulder, Siff points to the fact that most of the Australian National Team is in Boulder, as well as winners of this year’s Ironman Arizona, St. Croix 70.3 Ironman, Baja 70.3 Ironman, and perennial stars like Simon Lessing, Joanna Zeiger, Cam Widoff, Michael Lovato and many others.
In addition to the race at the front of the pack, some 30 participants will be competing as part of “Team in Training,” an organization aimed at raising funds for leukemia, lymphoma, and myeloma research. The race, itself, is part of the broader “Boulder Triathlon Series,” which also includes the Boulder Peak Triathlon on July 23 and the 5430 Long Course Triathlon on August 13.
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6/14/2006
Lake Catamount Swim
Open water swim at Lake Catamount today with Bill from the Triathlon Club. The water was around 60. Felt better swimming, could put some strokes together, more than before. Every Wednesday after 6pm they are letting us swim there.
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6/11/2006
Crazy River Dog
Abbey entered the Crazy River Contest. She didn’t win but she was pretty good at getting the stick
.
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6/10/2006
Run the Rockies 10K
Ran the 10K with my best time: 54:56. Granted, it was downhill, but it was a higher elevation: 9,000ft in Frisco
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6/8/2006
Elton John - Circle of Life
Some of us fall by the wayside
And some of us soar to the stars
And some of us sail through our troubles
And some have to live with the scars
There’s far too much to take in here
More to find than can ever be found
But the sun rolling high through the sapphire sky
Keeps great and small on the endless round
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6/5/2006
Alfred Kazin Literary Critic.
Kazin spent most of his career as a journalist and book critic, but he’s also remembered for having written one of the great American memoirs: A Walker in the City (1951). He got the idea for the book while living in an artist’s loft in Columbia Heights. The building had once caught fire, and Kazin could still smell the smoke on the walls. One day, he was sitting on his bed, smelling that smoke, when he decided that he wanted to write a book about it that wouldn’t be a novel or a work of history, but instead a kind of sensory tour of his old neighborhood. He would just describe what he saw and smelled and heard there, and all the memories wrapped up in his sensations.
A Walker in the City begins: “Every time I go back to Brownsville it is as if I had never been away. From the moment I step off the train at Rockaway Avenue and smell the leak out of the men’s room, then the pickles from the stand just below the subway steps, an instant rage comes over me, mixed with dread and some unexpected tenderness. … As I walk those familiarly choked streets at dusk and see the old women sitting in front of the tenements, past and present become each other’s faces; I am back where I began.”
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6/4/2006
June 4th Steamboat 1/2 Marathon
*Time 2:04:26*
Pace 9:30*
You placed 400th out of 945 finishers in a time of 2:04:26 for a pace of 9:30 per mile.
Out of 646 women you finished 219th. The winning time for women was 1:29:34.
For 35 to 39 year old women you were 53rd out of 138 finishers. The winning time for your age and sex was 1:35:58.
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6/3/2006
Allen Ginsberg
“Howl” begins, “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night …”
Ginsberg wrote, “I want to be known as the most brilliant man in America … who sang a blues made rock stars weep … who called the Justice department & threaten’d to Blow the Whistle / Stopt Wars … distributed monies to poor poets & nourished imaginative genius of the land.”
He said, “Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.”
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