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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Come crawling faster

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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If you're injured and need some sympathy, PM me and I'm very happy to write back.
disclaimer: PhD not MD

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.

Come do Seattle with me!

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Jen

"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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Jen

"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.

K

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"There's good all around you, you just have to be able to see it".

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