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Bike Ride this weekend & posting on the blog

Hi!
For all of us blog newbies, Three options for writing in the blog...
1. You can post on the blog by clicking on comments at the bottom of each post.
2. You can email me (Suzan) and I will post it
3. You can go thru google and post. You are all invited to be authors.

Is anyone up for a bike ride this sat or sunday afternoon?
Erika has offered to host at her house with childcare provided.

Erika's Post

Hi all--

Here's that tri training thing I brought to Suzan's the other day. I
don't
have Sally's email, so would someone kindly forward this to her for me?

After talking to some of you about training, it sounds like we have a
huge
variety of availability and of background/readiness for this, so I am
not
sure if this is going to work... but I have a proposal: let's try for a
once
a week "training" gathering, child care provided, on Sunday mornings.

I am imagining one house as a starting point, leave kids there with
willing
adults (dads, grandparents), and then we can train from there (as a
group or
individually). Whoever is "hostessing" could choose a route (pick a
lake, or
plot out a course on the parkway or whatever). We could loosely follow
the
training schedule (it starts with Sunday bikes for the first several
weeks;
and starts 4/16). I think biking would work really well this way, and
even
though our paces may be different while running, we could still do x
minutes
or miles and meet before / after for some inspiration and an
opportunity to
check in re: things we know about this training stuff! And treats ;)

AND, because I love to see you all and tend to actually work out if I
know
someone is expecting me to be somewhere, I'd also be totally
willing/interested in setting up any other time during the week that
works
for any of you -- maybe small groups with set times during the week?
While
kids are at school or even dropping them in childcare at the Y. Or now
that
it's nice out so late, even after dinner.

All that said, anyone want to go for a bike ride on this weekend on
Saturday
or Sunday afternoon? Or Saturday April 7? We can leave from here and I
already volunteer Kerry to head up the Playgroup for the kiddos -- he's
so
game it's great!

--E

Saturday Kickoff Party

Thanks to everybody who came over and joined us on Saturday. It ended up being more like a kickoff party, which was really fun! I hoped Ian helped you with your bikes. He is always availible to check on bikes, adjust helmets, look at trailers. You can even drop off on our front porch anytime. Now I have to get him to fix my bike. he has his clipless pedals on my bike!!!

I was RUNNING this morning and though this might be a great way for us to keep in touch and motivate each other. For me, Saturday was like a start. I got up Sunday and went running for 20min exactly. My knees felt like cement, I thought was *ss was going to jiggle off, but I did it. I walked yesterday with the kiddos. And went running again today. I felt awful today. I have to get music to help motivate. I am running in baby steps right now. Is that bad & will it change with time...runners?

Things we talked about....

http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/default.asp

^ this one has the schedule with the minutes for 13 weeks prior

http://www.triathanewbie.com/index.html

about the like bike....

http://www.likeabikeusa.com/

Depending on the weather, should we go for a bike ride on Sunday? Would this be a more comfortable place to start? I need to learn to ride in a group and just get on my bike. We could ride to breakfast at Egg & I or French Meadow from Lake Nokomis, Lake Harriet, my house?

By all means, this is just a suggestion. What sounds good?

I think I am going to try & swim Thurs am at the Y during preschool. 9:00 - 11:30am This should force me to commit.

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