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pearlandhorn

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  1. Good luck again. Be safe and enjoy the journey!
  2. @Clintonaldo How you doin? Nerves gone?
  3. You’ll do great man. I’ll be monitoring your progress. If they stream it, I’ll have it on. Rooting for you bud!
  4. Texas - 52 ULM - 10 Arch - 362 yards passing and rushing combined.
  5. Great brick session this morning. Took the QR off the trainer and went about 31 miles. Started around 7:15 and got nervous about traffic so headed home not quite ready to be done. I could have definitely ridden the whole race distance. This thing flies in comparison to my road bike. Went for a quick 4 mile run right after. Completed that 4 miles in under 33 minutes at 8:09 average. I really have to slow down right off the bike. It doesn’t feel like I’m running as fast as I am because my heart rate is already at 110-120 while on the bike. @Clintonaldo are you wearing carbon plates shoes for Chattanooga? I’m debating to use the vaporflys or the novablast. I’m leaning to vaporflys but I’m not sure. Probably won’t matter much as it’s only a half marathon but I’m curious as to your shoe selection: speed or comfort?
  6. Got back on the saddle Monday after work for a short 45-minute ride. Did an hour this morning. Soreness in the legs feels good. "Surgery" if you want to call it that has done it's job. Knock on wood but I think I'm healed. Taking the QR out this weekend for a good ride on the road and keeping it off the trainer until after race day. I'm getting nervous. I know I'll do fine. I think it's more mental right now than physical. Doc said I can get back in the pool today so I'm heading to the pool in the morning before work to get a long swim in and knock the rust off. I'll be in the pool 3x per week until race day. It's nice to be full go again. Just gotta get through another week of hard training then taper it out. Already done my long runs and long bricks. I may do one more shorter brick (25 mile ride + 6 mile run or something) before race day just to calm the nerves.
  7. The President, the President's Press Secretary, the Director of the NIH, the Director of the CDC... Are The President, the President's Press Secretary, the Director of the NIH, the Director of the CDC a reliable source? Start at :34.
  8. Could you please answer the question?
  9. Then why were we told they prevent illness?
  10. Mine was driven by the constant goal post moving by the major media outlets when I used to pay attention to them. I got the first two pfizer shots. At the time, we were told that we wouldn't get sick. People started getting sick after getting shots. Then they said you can't spread it if you're vaccinated, then studies came out about how people were still spreading it even though they were vaxxed. Oh, well then it was we wouldn't get critically ill. Deaths started decreasing but infections were going up, causing people to question why even get "boosted" when natural immunity is better than protection from vaccines. In hindsight, I wish I hadn't gotten vaxxed. Mainly because I believe I'm in better physical shape than 99% of the population and have almost zero risk of being hospitalized because of covid. In my opinion, it's not deliberate ignorance, it's logic.
  11. For those with kids that have Disney+, there is a nice little add on you can do for ESPN+ for cord cutters. Our annual Disney+ renewal was up in 3 days and my wife was browsing through deals for Verizon. She increased her phone plan by $5 per month and we got Disney+, Hulu Library with Ads, and ESPN+ for $10 per month. Disney+ renewal is about $13 per month. Bundle ESPN+ with Disney+. It's a good deal. I know, I know...
  12. I hope Sark puts 77 on traylor’s bitch ass.
  13. 😂
  14. Lol
  15. PM’d you.
  16. Texas - 48 UTSA - 16 Ewers - 264 Arch - 122 Other - 16
  17. Water temp in Waco is 84 so quite a ways to go before its wetsuit legal there. It’s going to be hot next week with no rain on the horizon so river isn’t going to cool off much. I’m cool with that as I don’t really care for swimming in a wetsuit. My parents next-door neighbor just did IM Wisconsin last weekend and finished 9th overall. He said it was an insane bike course up in Wisconsin with over 6000 ft of climbing. He did Chattanooga last year and finished 3rd overall. I talked to him for a bit this evening and he has some friends going up to TN and racing. It was nice chatting with him. Thought that was pretty cool. Small world.
  18. Went to doc for follow up on Wednesday and got the clear to run and bike. Went to the gym yesterday to lift and went on a 9 mile run this morning. Felt amazing. It was 63 with low humidity. I don’t have my bike with me as I’m visiting my parents this weekend. I’ll venture onto the bike Monday or Tuesday and ease back into it. I’ll probably do a 40 mile ride next weekend then start the 2 week taper. Race day is 3 weeks from Sunday. @Clintonaldo, Chattanooga is next weekend, right?
  19. Here's an idea: no one is talking about it because no one gives a fuck about aggy?
  20. My training readiness on my watch is "prime" at 99. Driving me nuts. Sometimes less is better though.
  21. I've had a rough past couple weeks. After my last long bike ride 3 weeks ago, I had an issue with a recurring roid. Had to stop biking. Last week, had it removed and haven't been able to ride for the past 3 weeks. I'm on the mend now and should be good to go for race day. Hopefully I'm recovered enough over the next couple weeks to get a couple more training rides in before race day. I can still run and swim (taken the last 6 days off - follow up appointment tomorrow with doc a week after removal). It's been a literal pain in the ass.
  22. I've always heard the old saying "it's not if you shit your pants, it's when..." When I ran my last marathon in April, I was so close at mile 25 to shitting myself that I had to walk for about 100 yards. It may have been the altitude (I was running from 10k feet down to 4k feet).
  23. I truly believe so. My mom is an absolute wreck with it all. Of course MDA has a doctor that specializes in Chordoma. It’s still such a small subset of sarcomas that there hasn’t been a ton of research on it. It’s wild though. My dad was very overweight for his entire life. After his first diagnosis, he cleaned his act up. Quit smoking, in the process of losing weight (down like 50 lbs with Ozympic), making better food choices, being more active. Then this. It fucking sucks but I think he’s taking it in stride. He’s tough as a mother fucker.
  24. Visiting this thread on behalf of my dad. 73 years old, urethral cancer survivor (diagnosed 8 years ago, surgery, treated), who now has been diagnosed with a Chordoma in his lower back. This super rare (300 people diagnosed every year in the US) cancer has wrapped around his spinal cord and docs at MD Anderson will attempt to remove it in one piece to prevent recurring. Chordomas are caused by leftover cells during fetal development that typically die off after the spinal cord is formed. It’s slow growing as all chordomas are. However, his annual CT scans after his urethral cancer would always show a small spot light up. He had some pain in his lower butt where his legs hamstrings connected to his glutes and went to get an MRI and it lit up like a Christmas tree. They’re heading down in a couple weeks for treatment plans and to schedule surgery. Thankfully, they don’t believe this one has metastasized. Radiation and proton therapy are on the table as well. We shall see. Keeping all those who are battling in my thoughts and wishing you all rest and recovery during your difficult times.
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