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Way to go Andrew! Next time it will be a bit easier, and a bit easier and so on, and so on. 

Keep it up.

Tonight, I'll try to remember counting how many strokes I do on 100m, it seems to matter.

H. 

Hey Gang, I thought I'd better wake up our thread. I hope training and watching the Olympics is going well. OK Andrew you better explain a little curling to us. How do they score the points? And explain the difference in ICE conditions they are playing A,B,C.

I had a great weekend, not so much from training but at our Jr. Olympic swim meet. Our team placed 3rd overall, had lots of best times from the kids and took home some medals of our own. Great to see the hard work turn into results. Afterall that is what we are after as well. So lets keep up the efforts, season is now right around the corner, we all should be getting a little more excited and ready to compete.

I finally did something I've been curious about, I did a Retul Bike Fit on Saturday. Results my bike is a good fit for me, made a saddle hgt. adjustment went up about 2cm, went down on the aero bars, which flattend out my back angle. Should be more aero. Widened out the bars a little, I'm not very flexible in the shoulders, they felt I would be more comfortable with no loss in aero. Discovered a variance in my pedal stroke right side to left side. Which upon further checking found my problem seems to be in my right hip. My right stroke doesn't look very good, to much oscillation compared to my left. Tried a few corrective measures but didn't seem to help. So we decided to leave it where it is and I'll try to see about the hip issue. I've know about my right knee being out to far, didn't know what was causing it. I'm pretty sure it is from a golf injury several years ago, a severe sprain on the right side and it seems that I probably am out of alignment in my pelvis.

But I'm excited to make the change and see what happens, my first event is the same as last year so I should get a good apples to apples comparison.

Hope all is well.

Herve good to have you back. I test rode outdoors yesterday, fit feels good. Should help gain a little speed. Andrew you are going to have to explain how on the last toss, the Suiss ended up winning the game agains Sweden. I have no clue. Great Hockey yesterday, didn't matter to me that much who one. Of course hoping USA would win, but it was a great game, good sportmanship on both sides and played with great intensity.

I don't know about everyone else but El Nino can go away now. About done with the cold weather. Races are now just weeks away for most everyone I'm sure.

Hope all is well with everyone, have a great day!!!

Thanks Andrew, I kind of get it and thanks for explaining. I guess like all things its alot easier to understand if you kind of know the basics which I don't. But those guys are really good, guess thats why they are the best in the world.

Ola' how is everyone. David congrats on your contract with your business, good job. I hope training is well and you all feel like your making progress. I'm not sure yet about myself, can't quite get my training schedule in sink with what I'd like to do. So just getting by with what I can. I've got a house project going on that reallys needs to get finished, hopefully this week. Then after that the wife should let me out to play. I gave a swim clinic last weekend it went well, had some fun. Looks like there are some others who are interested so I might do it again in a couple of weeks.

I have a small event in two weeks that is more like spring training, then in April the season really get kicked off around here. A lot of people use the event in early April as prep for the St. Anthony's Olympic distance in St. Petersburg. But for me I do it to get started and I'm now 9 weeks out from the Disney 70.3. As usual I'm having trouble getting enough time on the bike, I've ridden several time since the bike fit, I'm comfortable now just need to get the mileage up. Do I really have to have a full time job? Easy Answer. YES. So we get by.

Have a good day.