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Re: Ironman 70.3 Racine Reviews

guest — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:45:03 GMT

Carolyn,

Sorry to hear about your race experience.

Wish you well and good luck w/ the next race.

Re: Ironman 70.3 Racine Reviews

guest — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:20:26 GMT

great event w/ great volunteers! the swim course, bike course and run course were all amazing. it's exactly what i expect for a Ironman 70.3 race, fun, tough and memorable.

couldn't say thank you enough for all the volunteers, the city of Racine and the locals who came out to watch, cheer and spray us w/ nice cold water on the run course. Thank you, thank you and Thank you Racine, Wisconsin!!!! Jean M. Chicago, Ill.

Re: Strange trail encounters

guest — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:17:27 GMT

hey! the north branch do connect to greenbay road and you can take that all the way to kenosha. i've taken that route before once and it took us about 5 hours for a 100 miles one way trip. kettle is super awesome specially if you take the connector trail between j. muir and emma karlin with a total distance of about 32 mile loop. i normally do a brick workout there of riding for 20 miles and run 4 miles. too bad no lake there to swim and i can do my own xterra style triathlon. palos is super technical with gnurly downhill and 2 feet drops, to log ramps. the sigle tracks are more technical than kettle. when i get bored and have the urge to ride trails i normally go to palos since it's only 45 minute drive from where i live in irving park and california. this weekend i'm going on a camping/mt. biking trip to southern illinois in peoria area and check out 3-4 mt. bike trails there. another cool mt. bike trail is fort custer rec. park in battle creek michigan. i think it's better than kettle moraine south and palos combine plus they have camp sites.

Re: Strange trail encounters

guest — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 19:57:25 GMT

i bunny hop over a medium size turtle at a forest preserve trails just west of chicago once and a garter snake on a trails in souther wisconsin. i've encounter a coyote also once and a down mountain biker who endo trying to clear a small 2 foot log. of course i stopped and help him.

trish- fall is a nice time to get back on off road trails. try palos forest preserve 40 min. west of downtown. lots of single track. (http://www.cambr.org/)

or a nice drive to kettle moraine south in white water wisconsin. a 2 hour drive from chicago. (http://my.execpc.com/~jwamser/KettleSouth.html). need to pay to ride this trail system and a parking fee. but the trails are open till 11 pm for an awesome night trail riding.

Re: Does anyone have a good used mountain bike for sale

guest — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 19:39:39 GMT

i have a friend who lives in cheverly who is selling his specialized full suspension bike. what is your height or do you know what frame size you need? i visited him several times and we alway ride the schafer farm trails.

Re: Swim Portion of Tri getting canceled?

guest — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:37:47 GMT

that water was really cold. it took me 15 min to get use to it and get my into the grove. the international distance for the swim requires us to swim 1/4 mile south of the start. then maku a u turn north for almost a mile. i hit couple of spots where i can smell and taste gas from the boats anchored at monroe harbor. overall i had a good swim and my time was 44 min. 8 minutes faster than last year. my overall time was 3:00:10 i miss my goal of sub 3 hour by 11 seconds. but i'm still 17 minutes faster from last year. it was crazy in transistion area, isn't? muddy surface from 4 days of rain. Chicago tri included muddy buddy run in transistion. how did you like the bike ride on lake shore drive? by the time i got to the bike ride, there were so many debris of assorted water bottles, gatorade bottles, energy goo and someone completely lost gloves and a portable air pump. it was an awesome day to do a triathlon here in chicago. i stayed to watch the pro cross the finish line. the fastest pro did the entire international distance in 1:46:00, roughly. that's 1:24:00 faster than me! i'm long way on competing in the pro level. anyway, i'm resting today and have protein rich meal and drinks to help heal muscles aches. thinking on doing a half marathon in 3 weeks. let me highlight the "thinking" part. congratulation on your first triathlon and hope you do more and get to an international distance soon!

Re: Training for triathlon

guest — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 03:18:28 GMT

good job on your first triathlon! a sub 3 hour international distance tri is an excellent time. i know you're hook and can't wait for your next tri!

Re: TRI Swimming Coach

guest — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 06:33:11 GMT

i just sent you a personal message to you active.com account to a link for the bio of my personal trainer and swim coach. along with that is her email address to contact her.

Re: Swim Portion of Tri getting canceled?

guest — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 05:18:08 GMT

see you at the kids' tri tomorrow

i'll be wearing a gray moosejaw shirt with orange print.

Re: Swim Portion of Tri getting canceled?

guest — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 04:37:51 GMT

Correction; the saturday event is a run/bike/run. sunday is still swim/bike/run. i'm praying that the triathlon god will let us swim on sunday. i really wanted to get a personal best this time compare to my 05 and 06 results. so much time invested on my swim training i even hired a trainer that also a swim coach this year. i really want to get better my swim time. Good luck to all that's doing the Chicago Tri on Saturday and Sunday!