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I'm Off

OK, so I haven't updated all month. What can I say? I've been slacking off. Haven't been feeling all that great, dealing with healing and coming back from vacation to find alot of odds and ends not being attended to ... so I've been picking up the pieces. I missed too many trainings and too many meals to take this race as serious as I intended to.

I know I'll finish ... but I know I could have given more. I didn't come close to my 10k goal or get any of the sponsors I was hoping to get. But I do want to thank IES, ILS, Brookmeade Deli, Home Depot and my friends and family who helped make this happen. Even those that didn't contribute or do the things they said they would. I know who you are ... and I know who I can count on! Thanks.

I'm off to Texas in the morning to face the race that is the Capital of Texas Triathlon.

Nobody told me it would hurt so good!

After almost a week of being sore, we had our final Simulator. For all the newcommers to this blog. A simulator is an attempt to mimic actual race conditions.

This time we are supposed to do the full distance of each event. For those of us who are doing the Olympic distance, that means:

1 mile swim followed by
a 26 mile bike ride followed by
a 6 mile run

For those of us doing the sprint distance ...

Half mile swim followed by
a 12 mile bike ride, followed by
a 3 mile run

I did it, its done and over with and I have to do it all again in 4 weeks. I am sore but it feels good to have accomplished this! Now that I KNOW I can do this event and FINISH ... I can focus on my swim technique and improving my time on the run and the bike.

Dealing With the Morning After

Holy crap, I hurt. I'm sore I'm tired and I had to drive an hour and change to do swim drills! Being in the water was soothing but I couldn't keep a steady kicking pace during my swim. We did drills today with 30 or 15 seconds of rest in between. I had to learn to work through the soreness. I'm still not sure how I'm going to put it all together for race day. Next week is the final simulator where we get to do all of the events - full distance. I have this week to get my 6 mile run perfected.

Somebody recommended Chi Running. I'm gonna check out their website.

Oh and speaking of simulator . . . here are some pics from the last simulator.

How do you put it all together?

I'm able to swim about a mile.
I'm able to bike 27.5 miles.
I'm able to run 4.5 miles.

How do you put all these things together? I've done shorter distances where I would swim then run or bike then run. Today I tried to bike the full distance then run the full distance.

The weather was beautiful but a little windy. I couldn't run for more than a mile before my quadriceps started to "lock up". I would stop and stretch them out but I ended up running less than 2 miles on a 3.5 mile course. I gotta get it together for this event. I only have 5 more weeks!

Mother distracts son from his fight with cancer

This is what we are trying to prevent. I got this from Pulitzer.org, the link can be found below.




Racing barefooted after kicking off her flip-flops, Cyndie pushes her son Derek Madsen, 10, up and down hallways in the UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento on June 21, 2005, successfully distracting him during the dreaded wait before his bone marrow extraction. Doctors want to determine whether he is eligible for a blood stem cell transplant, his best hope for beating neuroblastoma, a rare childhood cancer, which was diagnosed in November 2004.

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FAQ: Why'd you name this site Quest For Dollars?

The name originally came about because I felt it would serve several purposes.

1. I've been running the rat race for many years and felt I needed a change, needed more ... of everything. Time, money, security, toys or at least a way to get those things and being able to enjoy them.

2. The website would provide a place for me to document that change and the journey toward that change. I could have a living, breathing journal that would show me what worked for me and what didn't.

3. My journey or quest to get out of the rat race and acquire what we as a society have defined as the representation of that success .... The Almighty Dollar!

Hence the name Quest for Dollars