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Click above for high resolution YouTube.com link – give it a few minutes to load before you play unless you have a really fast Internet connection. Riverwood Triathlon 2008 – great day for a great race!

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The In-Laws are in town from Portland Oregon. Dr Leisure, my wife’s father (a friend of his had Dr Leisure cards printed up for his retirement party a few weeks ago) shipped out a bike to stay in NC permanently. We are bringing the whole fam’ out to Jordan Lake Ebenezer park on Sunday. Anyone [...]

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Hope everyone who wanted to go got in! Here are some pics from last year. Current roll call: Herbs Squeeky Rap Master Sass Litl’bit Alfonso Sandbagger Am I missing anyone?

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Where: Ebenezer Church Campground Jordan Lake When: 6:45 AM What: Approximately 2 hour ride, 30 minute run, 30 minute swim Why: Prepare for White Lake Half Weather: Mid 50s to mid 60s for bike, water temp probably mid 60s Cost: $5 (At the gate) *** RECAP: Wow that was JUST what the doctor ordered. After [...]

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**UPDATE** SOLD OUT. SEE YOU IN 2009 Its been raining. Are you waffling? You have a few more hours and then your next shot at Kerr Lake Triathlon will be in 2009. Who is in with me? Click here for the website.

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EDIT: Race is sold out. Hope everyone got in! (Sandbagger slips in a cameo at 1:53 ) Are you really going to skip Riverwood Triathlon this year? Sandbagger, KarenG8r, Squeeky – Terp, did you take the plunge? Check the 2008 Riverwood Triathlon participation list. Go sign up right this instant – click here to go [...]

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The 2008 racing season is in full swing! Coach Bubba last weekend, and now we have Azalea Festival Triathlon and the Umstead Trail Marathon. The weather forecast looks good for Saturday! Hopefully it will be at least in the upper 40s. Leave the running tights at home. Good luck to everyone racing this weekend! Let’s [...]

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Do you read the Triathlon Forum over at Slowtwitch? Someone went WAY out of their way to create a pretty comical spoof on the creating of a “women-only” forum. For another less testosterone-filled forum, you can check out beginnertriathlete.com which has a number of specific forums, including a state-level forum (the NC one is reasonably [...]

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More cowbell! Time to put your money where your legs are! Registration begins tomorrow at 7 PM. Don’t snooze! Yay! 10 microseconds after 7:00 PM, we were treated to this:

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What a race!  I wanted to get a post up so people could start writing up their experiences in the comments field. More pics soon.  Rap Master, we would love another epic writeup.  Squeeky, Topher and Litl’bit – please share your view of your first Half Iron distance race.  KarenG8r always has a great angle [...]

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Soma Half Triathlon is upon us. Squeeky and I walked to Starbucks at 6:30AM and saw an absolutely amazing full moon just setting on the walk over. The rest of the gang is meeting Topher at Landis at 10:30, assuming the Cleveland to Phoenix flight treats the ladies nicely. Topher has quite an itinerary planned [...]

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Macca (Chris McCormack) and relative unknown Chrissy Wellington win at Kona. Here is the SlowTwitch running forum post for some commentary. Skip to about page 25 for the end.

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It was a lot of fun. Kind of a cold, windy and dark at the start (that is my excuse for hitting the channel marker). The wind switched directions to a NorEaster the night before the race. But the water was warm ( too warm for wetsuits) and the bike was mostly sheltered from the [...]

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Can you believe? Setup has updated their Azalea Triathlon page. Registration begins tomorrow at 6:00AM. Better hurry. Just kidding The floodgates open 7:00PM on Wednesday January 2, 2008. Map Triathlon 2008 registration begins 7:00:M on Thursday January 3, 2008.

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Got a few pics up on Flickr. Click through if you are impatient and want to laugh, or wait and I will eventually get a full recap here. Click here for the prelude. Cliffs: It was cold & dark to start. The swim was very challenging on the way out, and a breeze after the [...]

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I somehow managed to finish. Click here for the recap. What good are friends? Squeeky drove us out to New Hope Overlook Park and ran the Duke Half course with me. He didn’t complain (much) when I got us lost and we had to scamper an extra 2.5 miles on a hot day. He also [...]

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Got an email today from a good friend – posted below: Rama, The swimmer of my triathalon team tore her rotator cuff. If you know any ladies who swim and are not already participating in the Wilmington triathalon, I would appreciate if you would see if they would be interested in being on our team. [...]

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Setup Events put on another great triathlon – the latest that the Mitterling Milers competed at (where the heck was Mitdog???) – Lake Logan Triathlon 2007. Mens Results Womens Results Pics here. We almost missed half the EW Tri team when KarenG8r and her trusty co-pilot Litl’bit’Lost couldn’t find the race and just made it [...]

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I saw a post over at SlowTwitch for the 2007 USAT Ranking System. Check it out at: http://usatrankings.com/Pages/MemberPages/RankingQuery.aspx You can search and sort by many different filters. You can see everyone in your AG for a particular race. You can download the results to your computer. And this is COUNTRYWIDE. I think I weigh in [...]

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UPDATE – IM Newfoundland 2007 is history! RMS finished 7:53:52. Congratulations on banging out another Half Ironman! ______________ So Rap Master Sass made some remark about a ‘newfie’ in an email about a week or so ago. I thought, hmm, maybe a typo? Did he mean ‘newbie’? What the hell is a newfie anyways? Some [...]

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