Happy Summer Solstice everyone! Keeping with my Alaska theme this week, Solstice is a pretty big deal there. At 10:30 pm Alaska Standard Time, the Alaska Goldpanners will take the mound verses the San Diego Oceanside Waves in a minor league baseball game. The entire game will be played in sunlight. At 10 pm on Saturday, the Midnight Sun Run 10k will kick off and it will also feature sunlight during the entire run (walkers as well as FOP).

Jim, Thor, Neil and everyone else racing this week - go get em!

RonBo - awesome news about the shin.

Matt - $1 sounds like a pretty good price. Good luck!

Alicia - WAY TO GO! on the swimming. I'm excited for you!

Me - Thursday night hammerfest with the local roadies. I managed to hang on to the pack for 36 minutest this time. Then another hour with the stragglers. 35 miles, 21 mph avg, 1:40, 159 bpm avg.

Then 30 minute brick run. Had the choice between zone 4 or zone 1/2. Decided to take it easy and took option 2. 3.9 mi, 8 min/mi avg, 148 bpm.

Mike

quote:<HR>Originally posted by BethR:
Ella - is it cold down there if it's winter?
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Yes, it's frickin' freezing!!

quote:<HR>Originally posted by Dougie Fresh:
Ella: You can't possibly call what you have "winter". When it's -20C, there's a meter of snow on the ground and finally no mosquitos then you can call it winter. <HR>

1 out of 3 ain't bad - the mozzies have gone!!

Okay, it's not that cold. But it's still cold! I'm wearing thermals, long sleeved t-shirt, fleece and a scarf (and trackies) and I'm inside with the heater on! Guess I best never move to the Northern Hemishpere!

Ella



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Ron, WOO HOO! On the shin! That's gotta be a huge relief. Can't wait to hear the next RR!

Alicia, WAY TO GO on the mile!

Doug, you're logging new PR's and break-through moments almost every time out! Keep it up!

First NOW (non-OW ) for me in more than a week. Ended up being a fun one. 2000 yards total. A lap or two into my warm-up, I finished a lap to find a couple watching me swim. They'd just finished their workout, and were watching my swimming form with (hee hee) admiration. When I came up for air, the woman explained that they were just saying that one day, they'd swim as smooth as I do. While this made my night, it's all very relative. I do try to swim pretty smooth and quiet, but I'm not fast (endurance pace is around 2:30/100). I told them I'd just learned in the past year and a half or so and suggested some resources (like Total Immersion) to check out. They've already got their first swim lesson set for this weekend, and they're planning to do their first tri in September. I suspect my next lap had a little extra zip to it.

You think that would be enough, but a little later, an older woman in the lane next to me commented on me being so fast. I thanked her, but explained I really wasn't fast in comparison to some folks. Just a few laps later, a new guy (a new "fish," actually), jumped in the next lane and started reeling off 50 yard laps in the low 40-something range. Yep, it's all relative.

Edited to add: At my pool circle swimming is incredibly rare. We usually split the lane in half. If I routinely circled, and someone jumped in without warning, I'd end up in a head-on collision because they were splitting lanes instead of circling. Local etiquette is to wait and ask to share. The asking is a polite formality as I've only once heard of someone saying, "no." And that was seen as such bad form that the swimmer asking immediately had several invites to join other lanes.

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quote:<HR>Originally posted by Dougie Fresh:
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I know fondly the loop you speak of. My family is from Kittery and Kittery Pt. and I've dreamed of riding along 103 into York, maybe even up 1-A. Even though it's twisty with no shoulder it's got ocean.

Me: 23.7mi bike ride up and down the hills of Nottingham, NH (1:24:41/16.8mph avg.)

OMG. At the top of the steepest hill as I am trying not to lose it, there's a farm. It was a nice warm day today and it was awful at the top. I have no idea how I didn't lose it right there. It look a lot of cranking on the flats and downhill on the way back to get that average mph up after climbing into Nottingham. Cripes. I thought my quads and lungs would explode. The ride completely rocked!! This is my longest bike ride since I started doing this stuff so it's a bit of a training PR.

Good workouts to all!

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Now Nottingham does have some killer hills ... Occasionally I go down Rt 4 from Durham to Northwood, then bang a right on 152 going DOWNHILL and cross over 125 back into Lee and Newmarket...

Last year I did a 50 mile and got ... hmmm .... a little lost trying to navigate around Pawtuckaway State Park ... 156 is a b-tch of a road ... I assume that's what you were on ... The hills are definitely a quad-busting workout that force you to get out of the saddle. So WOOT! for your yesterday's ride ...

103 is a LOT easier, even though there are lots of quick up and downs, nothing too painful. I haven't actually ridden it all the way up to Nubble in many years - one of these days I'll do it after work, 'cos the Long Sands stretch is fun ... Usually I turn around at Payne and Bartlett Roads, so actually work in a short 7-8 mile loop instead of a straight out and back ride ... Nice though ... You should have a job in Portsmouth I hear Liberty Mutual hires Java developers with some frequency...

Reg.