I hate new threads. But for Doug, well, I guess i'll go along with it.

Frank, I can't believe your race season slows down due to summer weather. Nothing stops the races here. There are actually a lot more races during the summer. And I know it's just as hot and humid here as it is in your neck of the woods.

I'm tired and cranky today. I need to climb on the bike and I just can't seem to get motivated. I think I need a little of Frank's energy.

HI All - Seems strange being on a new thread. Hope everyone had a great long weekend and a short week this week. I am curently taking some vacation time. I am not doing much of anything except errands but it is nice not to sit in front of a monitor, that is a work monitor.

Since I had the day off I ran a little later and put in a little short of 3.5 miles. I took it slow and easy and the run was enjoyable. A little while after getting home I decided to go on a bike ride. I pumped up my road mike to 95psi and away I went. Yesterday the wife and I decided to go on a short ride around the area. I used a mountain bike and the ride was mostly recreational. Today I decided to bring out my butt buster road bike which I have not used since I started running and put it through it's paces. I managed to put on about 10 miles at around a 14mph pace. This was the first time using the Garmin for a bike ride but it worked out great. You know since biking works out your muscles completely different then running it is a great supplement and I found I felt great after my ride. Kimber, I will still not plan on joining the dark side, I can swim but I am not all that great at it and it is just not my interest.

Val - You know the last time we changed threads we lost someone because they bookmarked the page. Let's hope this does not happened again

Mike

Val - I have no problem with the new thread. It works for me. However, I am not a tri-guy in the making. I respect people like Kimber who bike/run/swim and actually compete. I am just an old fashioned runner who likes to supplement with a little biking. Honestly my bike is so old it would get double takes at a triathlon. It is now 16yrs old and bicycle technology has changed a lot. Shoot, my shifters are still down on the down tube which has not been done in ages.

Mike

Nico - My area is the same. Until October it is a little hot to race so you find not a lot are scheduled. Northerners have it tough during the winter and we have is bad during the summer.

Mike

Thanks for the pics, Nico! Hey -- are you a fellow southpaw? I'm just guessin' from the watch placement and such. Like Val, I also hope to have arms like yours someday.

Thanks for starting the new thread, Val. I was going to suggest a new thread when we hit around 500 posts. I didn't realize our threads were at risk when they got too long, though. Dodged a bullet there!

Mike - I'm right there with you. My preferred bike is a Motobecane sport touring bike that I've been toting around the country since I was about 14. (Gives you a sense of how much I haven't grown that it still fits....) The gear shirts are also on the down tube, and I much prefer it to the handlebar-mounted variety. That's the bike, incidentally, that got me moving last June and ultimately resulted in starting c25k. How cool....

T-shirt update: for whatever reason, my local Fleet Feet, who was helping me get this done, went quiet. I've poked around a little bit and found another company that can do the shirts. The shirts will run in the neighborhood of $35 through them, since we're not ordering all that many (six at last count; price break seems to come at 12). I still haven't gotten a logo onto the computer (plenty of bad sketches, but not scanned in), but I've put a placeholder on the design. It's nothing fancy, but here's a rough idea:

http://tinyurl.com/5k84d6

I'm open to absolutely any suggestions/revisions/whatever.

Oh, well. Enough procrastinating. I have to go grade stats homeworks.

Don

Hey guys,

Nobody has every called me ripped before. You made my day! I'm sitting here flexing my arms like a fool

Yes, Don, I'm a lefty Cool! And the shirts are great! Can we pick our own colors or is the price contingent on us all getting the same color?

ETA: Doug, we were posting at the same time. Way to go!!

Nico