Ready or not get ready!

Join me April 5th in Coldspring, MN for a free box of Girl Scout cookies! Last year after the crossing the finish line I was handed a box of Lemonades, along with a medal. So that was enough to bring back this year. We will see you at the race, rain, snow or sunshine!

Irish Scamper 5k

Guess what I did Saturday morning?  I won this clay cup and 2 loaves of banana bread!  My time was 15:51. My splits were 5:09, 5:15, 5:00 and change. It was a great race. Cold at the start, windy no matter the direction we ran.

I had to work the first half of the race to catch the guy out front. A college runner from South Dakota took it out quick. I like to build into a race. Once I caught the South D runner I kept a step or two in fron of him pushing the pace ans listening to his foot steps. Then after the 2 mile, there was a pretty good sized downhill and I made my first move then and opened up a gap. Then came the uphill section and I made my final escape.

With Janelle and our 3 kids cheering me to the finish, it made a great early spring race.

Irish Scamper this Saturday

Finally after all that cold weather we have had, spring is on it's way.  This Saturday I will be racing the my first 5k of the year. I am unsure what my time will be, because normally just run all winter and this year I have been splitting my time up pretty equal between the 3 sports that form a triathlon.

There is often a very large turnout for this race, so we will see how the day goes and what my legs can do. I will post some pics from the race and a race report sometime Saturday afternoon. Until then, keep moving forward!

Redbox

I hope you all had a great weekend! I did 12 miles on my treadmill Saturday morning. The first 10 at 6:38 pace and the last 2 at 5:58 pace. It went well, I always like the fast part at the end of these workouts beacause they go quick and I know this speed will have great payoffs this upcoming tri season.

I then had a 105 minute endurance ride on Sunday morning and it went really quick because i watched The Armstrong Lie. I have read his books and believed in Lance like so many others. I still have a Livestrong braclet laying around here.  I think one of the only truths about Lance is that he had cancer, that is true.

I would strongly suggest watching this documentary. It helped bring truth to alot of questions i have had over the years.  I think Lance could have won just about any Ironman he wanted, and he was well on his way. He took 4th or 5th in his first 70.3 half iron race and then he won the next half iron race he entered. Lance was signed up for Ironman France and shortly after that the skeptics had won and truth finally caught up with him. Now Lance is being sued for over $100 million dollars.

What a ride...