One year had my birthday been a week earlier I would have won the next age class up I blamed my mother and she said she wished I'd never been born let alone born earlier. Thanks for the link. Well done and good luck with the Duathlon - please post a report for that one! Weather has turned cold again and we are back in single digits at night. Yesterday, it was about 18 with solid 10MPH winds - but the sun was out and it really didn't feel that bad when the wind was not in my face. We are in a melt / freeze cycle and the road conditions are much worse than when it was just snow, but I do believe we will have an early Spring this year, and I'm starting to believe that I will be feeling stronger by then and be able to get back up to speed with my training. I haven't managed to fit in biking yet, but hoping it will be more feasible in another month.

Croydon, thanks for the update it has reminded me to update my cycling mileages. I haven't been running much but my leg seems better so its back to some serious tarmac pounding after my next half on Sunday. I foolishly entered the British National Duathlon Championships on Sunday there were some serious athletes in it as it was a world championship qualifier I finished in 2.25.00 to be honest I took the opening run quite steady as I didn't want to risk injury. Had I trained the way I wanted to I could possibly have qualified in my age group but thats life. The winner ran the first 10k ( which was round a country park and had some grass and gravel tracks ) in 30.03! Then a hilly 40k bike in 1.03.17 and finished the 5k final run in 16.44

Chenille join Croydon and do it as a team! The leg is still nowhere near right but I have the name of someone who might help so fingers crossed. With the short span of good weather you get its always going to be hard to get the cycling in but just think you only need 10 X 100 mile cycle rides to hit the target. I must admit since I've been running more I miss the long bike rides, my club go out every Saturday of the year and do around 60 / 80 miles but always stop at the same cafe. Its become that much of a fixture the cafe owner comes to our annual dinner. My problem is I don't have time on Saturdays. Funnily enough I find it hard to keep the running going from the Spring onwards as I'm so busy ( I grow most of my fruit and veg ) and Winter has always been when I have the time to run. This is especially the case now I have a job that involves working in London and staying down there a few times a month. On the 5 May I have my first 10 mile cycle time trial of the year and from the week after that we have one on Tuesday nights and one on Thursday until late August. What with that and the local league road running races and the odd Mountain Bike race I don't have time to train.

Oh I don't see me making my running goal without some serious cutting back on the bike. I feel like if I have time to run I should be on the bike to get ready for these rides. .

I'm just the opposite. I feel I'm short changing myself if I'm on the bike. My main focus is the running. A friend wants me to ride a 200 mile one day ride July 11th and i have a marathon on June 7th. Hard to get ready for both. And I sit on 84 miles of riding.

http://www.cascade.org/EandR/stp/STP_Details.cfm It's Seattle to Portland, a big event around here. I've done it twice, but only the two day ride. It's a friend that likes to try and keep uping the ante on stupid things to do. There really isn't many hills, it is a nice easy ride for two days. A couple of years ago I did a one day ride of 156 miles and 10,000 feet of climbing so he has now come up with this. But that was when I had more interest in riding than running, and with a lot more miles under my belt.

Did a 64 mile ride today, and you said it, my ass feels it.

'bout time!! Yea, finally got the totals up. Myself, I've been doing lots of riding and no, none, nada bit of running. hokieesq and jules are kicking bunny butt. Chenille, looks like your on the heels of the running bunny! Guys, this year is almost half over. Don't let the bunny get too far away. Year to date totals