I tentativly have a marathon at the end of November, depends on how my training is going. From there, another marathon in February, a 50k in March, a 100 miler in April, not sure what will happen after that.

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"In order to keep a true perspective on one's importance, everyone should have a dog that worships him and a cat that will ignore him." - Dereke Bruce

I took this year off of competitions because of burnout from training for IM Lou last year. However, my sister has never done a half IM and managed to talk me into doing the Prairieman Half with her, which is this weekend. After that, I have the Sunmart 50K trail run in December, and the Houston Marathon in January. My goal for 2009 is to get back into the half IM distance and do several of them, and try to place top 3 in my age group in the local races.

When is the Zofingen race? Sounds fun! In a torturous kinda way :)

I have the Muskoka 70.3 race on Sept 14th to get through. Am looking forward to it. Just did the Canadian Half IM AquaBike where I lucked out and placed well for me!

Then the Prince Edward County (Picton) Half Marathon on Oct 5th.

After that, a well earned break from training.

Haven't really looked at 2009, other then Run For The Toad in late sept/early Oct. GREAT race.

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I'm leaving tomorrow for the Marathon du Medoc. I'm only doing the half marathon which is good because I developed ITBS two weeks ago. I'm hoping the wine at the aid stations will fortify me. Most runners wear costumes and I'll be in a black running dress, white arm coolers, a tiara and pearls.

I then come home and do the Nation's tri on the 14th, another sprint tri Oct 4th, Army Ten Miler on the 5th, the Beach 2 Battleship half iron distance on Nov 1st, and end the season with a short course duathlon mid-Nov.

I have a lot of my season left which is why I'm freaking a little bit about my injury!

Zofingen is October 12th in New Paltz, New York. They have short and long course options. More info at: http://www.americanzofingen.racesonline.com/

I'm still planning on renting a house and (hopefully) sharing it with some ST'ers. If anyone else is headed there, check out my other thread on the Ladies of ST Training Weekend.

Most runners wear costumes and I'll be in a black running dress, white arm coolers, a tiara and pearls.

We definitely need a picture of that posted when you're back. Have fun!

Hmmm.. I have an OLY on the 14th (Black Diamond), then AmZof sprint/training weekend, then a late half-marathon or I might hit the XC circuit... but, I signed up for IMC 2009 yesterday, so I guess that's the big thing for next year.

AP

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Mentally I'm ready for the season to be over....a bit burned out after IMLP. I have a few more races: Reston Tri Sep 7; MS 150 Bike to Bay and Army 10 miler. I think my off-season training needs to involve anything but swimming, biking & running.

Nathan's sprint Sept 21
Tinfoilman sprint Oct 12 (local tri)
SOMA Quarterman Oct 26
Maybe Tucson half mary in Dec
CA 70.3 April 09
IMAZ Nov 09- my first IM!!

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Marathon on 9/13, cyclocross season starts 9/20 and goes until december. May or may not do another marathon on 1/18 in AZ, might think about doing flying pig in cincinati in May 09.

Also training for Thanksgiving and Christmas eating (in other words, training so that I can eat some of that stuff, ha ha ha)

I'm going to Tahoe for xterra Nationals. I've put this off for years, because I'm terrified of raicng at altitude. But I finally decided to give it a try this year. Still terrified, but how do you know if you never try.

I've also finally come to the realization that ironman is not for me. I truly do not have the mental toughness for it. I've been trying to convinve myself for years to try it again, but its taken me some time to realize its not for me. And I'm so relieved that I finally figured it out! Now I can do the things I really enjoy, and really work on improving those - xterra, mtb races, OLY and the occasional half IM.

I'd also like to have a healthy injury free winter. And my plan for that is to not do runs longer than 90 minutes, and stay on the trails as much as possible ( not always easy in the dark winter months).

Cheryl

Half marathon on Sept 20, then one in the middle of October.
College's sprint tri is in Oct. as well, not sure of the date.

SWIM SEASON!!!!

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See you there!

I still have IMAZ left on my schedule for this year. My body aches from IMLOU on Sunday. Not a good trip, but still almost an hour faster than last year.

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Well, my season is far from over, I have 2, maybe 3 BIG races left on the schedule:
* Oct 5: Xterra Nationals in Tahoe (hopefully I'll have a better race than in 06 (med tent))
* Oct 26: Xterra Worlds (if I qualify in Tahoe)
* Nov 23: Ironman Arizona

I'm not even thinking about next year....yet.

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Well, after a break over the summer my season is starting again!!!! Did an oly yesterday, getting ready for Longhorn 70.3 on Oct 5 and then IM AZ(again!!!!) on Nov 23. I will probably run the Austin marathon, then go from there.............

I do a local sprint in NJ this weekend, race on a relay the next, then AG Nationals in Oregon September 20. Then cross country and road races for the fall. And I may try a few swim meets for the first time ever.

IMAZ in Nov

With IMC08 less than two weeks in the past my focus has turned to marathons. I'm heading to San Fran in October for the Nike Women's marathon. It may take as long as my IMC marathon split. The goal isn't to go fast, it's to have fun and enjoy the environment. I'm doing it with a good friend of mine and she has no desire to run a marathon. Some how we decided to sign up for the slowest finishing time. We'll run when we feel like it, walk when we feel like it etc.

For a more serious goal, if I feel up to it, I'll be running the Seattle marathon at the end of November. The hotel has been booked for months but with a 24 hour cancellation I don't have to decide anything until the Saturday before the race.

But my biggest focus is getting ready to move to Melbourne, Australia in December for a one year teaching exchange.

Karen

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my season hasn't started :-) after 1.5 yrs of recovery it will be good to be back out there and ST has helped to keep me excited (reading the rrs). Although I would have to say I am in training right now to learn how to walk again. Weights suck. I don't recommend them. Ever. Period.

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"In order to keep a true perspective on one's importance, everyone should have a dog that worships him and a cat that will ignore him." - Dereke Bruce

Um, aren't you training for a DecaIron?

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"In order to keep a true perspective on one's importance, everyone should have a dog that worships him and a cat that will ignore him." - Dereke Bruce

It's highly likely that I'll be coming down to Seattle and more than likely I'll do the marathon too. I ran it last year and i've never been so nervous before an event as I was before the Seattle marathon. I think it was because it had been such a long time since I ran 26.2 m without the swim, and bike warm up.

We'll see how my fall running goes. I'm tired of running at a snails pace.

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that's the obvious, but let's start with walking. Haven't done sissy squats in 10 yrs and built up to 600 of them the other night. Mother of God. Weight lifting is stupid. So yes, training right now for walking :-) and stuck on the couch tonight pulling sleep dep crap and out of reading material, think I'm going to go mad.

Oh man, it is the sleep dep that will likely kill me for the ultras I have planned. Ugh.

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"In order to keep a true perspective on one's importance, everyone should have a dog that worships him and a cat that will ignore him." - Dereke Bruce

jen you'll be fine. It isn't really mandatory, I just do it bc I know where I stand and I like having the knowledge of the pain in the bank.
I need to log off and actually get some time on the dreadmill, this is going to be fun with calves on fire. Whomever invented running should be shot.

I'm attempting my first HIM with the Silverman 1/2 in Nov. To get ready for that I'm doing the Big Bear Half Marathon on Saturday, a local sprint the next weekend, and then the Carpinteria Olympic a month before my doomsday at Silverman. I have fewer than 10 weeks left. What was I thinking?!

I am training for the Reach the Beach Relay in New Hampshire 9/12. Its my first but most of the team has done it the last 3 years.
Doing the Finger Lakes Oly the week after in Canadiagua NY.
Nothing else scheduled until IMLP.

Polly

training to learn how to walk again... Eileen, what happened?!

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Good for you! That San Fran race sounds like a hoot. I want pics post-race ;-)

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Well, I do have a small race this weekend called Ironman Wisconsin. After that no clue!! I do want to run a marathon in the Spring.

GOOD LUCK!!!! Have a blast! Post your race number so we can follow you online.

I'll be attempting my first full-distance at Silverman! Here's to us suffering together! This is week 10, there's plenty of time and we'll be fine!! (Just keep repeating that with me!!)
I'll be at Great Illini this weekend for a HIM distance.

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Silverman Half is so much fun. I am planning on doing it if I have any motivation left after Kona. I did it last year as the start to my serious training for IMAZ. I want to race it this year as the end of a very long year.

Even if I don't race it, I'm committed to going and cheering for a few friends.

After Kona, if I have any motivation left, I'm doing Silverman Half (not really going to train for it, hoping the myth of residual fitness isn't just a myth, but a fact). Then I'm going to sit around and do a whole lot of nothing for at least 6 weeks. Maybe try some standup paddleboarding during that time.

After the new year I'm going to attempt to train to swim the Maui to Lanai Channel (9-10 miles) sometime in late February/early March and then either California 70.3 or New Orleans 70.3 and then start training for IMLP next year.

Training for training. Most of the summer (and part of the spring too) has been a bit dismal training-wise so I will be doing some focused off-season skills/strength stuff. With a team/coach so it's pretty structured. I'm pretty psyched about it!

May do the Philly 1/2 M, will do some smaller road races later in the fall and early winter.

Then, next year, a bunch of Oly/sprint races, as I really want to get FASTER and I can focus on that with shorter distances. Mostly ones I've done before, a couple of new ones. And planning on doing one XTERRA which will be a totally new thing for me. (and of course that means doing some mt biking and trail running which looks like a lot of fun!)

It's good to read all these things now, gets me motivated!

Patriots Half this weekend as long as Tropical Storm Hanna behaves herself. Also, Watauga Lake (Oly) next weekend, Cane Creek the next (sprint) and any others I can find for October. St. Judes Marathon (tent) in December :)

tig- nothing happened, just started lifting weights again seriously and haven't for about 10 yrs (at least not this seriously). I never look past the week, so when asked what are you training for next - training to walk right now :-) and probably could use a little help on my bitchness scale while in the gym working with said weights. Saying every 20 mins - who in their right mind LIKES lifting weights, this sucks, I'd rather be in the pool running, ect. probably isn't helping me.

got a little surgery coming up that will cut into my training time and then I have a half marathon trail run (North Face Challenge) in October and some long distance Orienteering (off trail) events I will be doing......

leading into some XC Ski marathons in the winter....

After taking the month of August off from meaningful training (I DNF'd at LP due to hypothermia - first DNF in 19 years of racing), I'm doing some fun little running races (8K trail race this weekend) to prepare for a 1/2M in February (Hyannis Half) plus MiamiMan (sort of oly: .6/22/6.6) on Nov 9. MiamiMan should be fun since the run goes through the Miami Zoo.

Ironically I actually will be working on learning how to walk again the rest of this season thanks to this brutally busted up leg of mine. To try and keep myself from a total pit of despair I've pegged the following two things to look forward to:

1. Austin 1/2 marathon in January 2009 (may only be able to do the relay team half marathon which will mean I only do 6.5 miles which sounds so wussy but it's with a good group of girls so they always make it fun).

2. Walla Walla Olympic Distance Tri, Walla Walla WA - end of May 2009 - what will hopefully be a full return to tris without any lingering leg issues. At the very least, it will be a weekend of great WA wine and good food

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I doing SOS this weekend and am terrified. Training didn't go as planned this summer because of tendonitis in my achilles so I'm just looking to make the cutoffs and to finish on top of the mountain. I've always wanted to do this race and it will be my first time in New Paltz. Even though I'm way undertrained, I hear it is beautiful so I'm just out to enjoy the day.

I am doing SOS this weekend as well!!! My training is not where I would like it to be and am just going to do it and have fun.

Ive wanted to do the SOS for 23 years....sounds like an awesome event....

I am looking forward to it! I've been doing a lot of adventure racing and mtbing, and probably not enough swimming.

SOS sounds like an amazing race, except I'm not sure it's something I would like to do. I liked it until I read that you have to swim with your shoes tucked into your shorts. I guess I'm just not that hard-core!! :)

Good luck to all of you and I hope you post a RR after.

Here's what's left:

1/2 mary Sept 6
century Sept 7
Erie Marathon Sept 14
century Sept 20
10k Sept 28 (Pittsburgh Great Race, starts two blocks from my house!)
century Oct 4
1/2 mary Oct 18
IMFL Nov 1 my first IM :)

Lets see, in the works for the end of this yr..... CP Hornoridge 10K, then my last big race will be Silver Strand 1/2. I might do the Xterra race at Dana Point, but haven't committed mentally to that one just yet. I'm trying to incorp biking, swimming into my 50+ running mileage/wk. Next yr, right now I'm thinking of doing the 18K in Death Valley, but they are a no ipod/headphone race, so I'm still sitting on the fence. I can't imagine a desert run without headphones, ugh! Then I want to do either a HIM or an Oly (dependent on my training) come next spring.

I am also doing Silverman half, but for the first time and I am absolutely terrified. My coach warned me that it is, and I quote, "mountainous"...

Last try of the season coming up on 10/5 so sad....

BUT WAHOO.. thinking of either New Orleans 70.3 or Orlando /Florida 70.3.

I am totally freaked out. My training parnter had an accident last night. He got hit by a car last night riding home from work. Low speed and just ended up with 12 stitches on a pre-existing scar from a slide out at crit practice, but scares the CRAP out of me nonetheless. He's one of my best friends and I can't see him until this afternoon/evening.

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Don't say that...don't say that!!! I'm terrified of the full myself - my first full. I was told that it's mostly just long, grinding stuff, not overly steep (except the sisters), just painful.

Just keep repeating - we can do this, we can do this, we can do this.....I was told to just keep moving forward and eventually the finish line will appear....

I'm excited, scared, nervous and already my knees hurt just thinking about it!!! It'll be fun.

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I am sure we will be fine. I have just done my first full at IM Lou and after two weeks off am back into training. The problem is, I spend a lot of time in London, UK and there aren't many hils around to train on :-(