Beer Drinker Appreciation/Accountability Society 3 - Closed (Page 49)

Weekend update: Took Saturday off, sometimes you just need a relaxing morning and sleeping in late. Sunday was a great 8 mile run, ramping up for another half-marathon at the end of the month. Today was a good 1500m swim, although I learned that my occasional carpal-tunnel pain in my right wrist can be aggravated by swimming, guess I need to put my wrist brace back on.

As for the question above about vanilla flavor: the phenols in wood interact with the alcohol during barrel aging to produce the vanilla flavor common in wine and other barrel aged products.

Edit: adding March totals. Lots of running, as usual.

• Swim: 2h 02m 20s - 5800 M
• Bike: 3h 58m 16s - 58.08 Mi
• Run: 9h 34m 10s - 56.4 Mi

Hi, All.

Been out of town on business/fun trip and haven't really kept up with the happenings.  Did mange to get several decent workouts in.  Even did a local 10.5K (finsihed in 48:40/7:43 splits)

I broke down and got some new 'stability' shoes (Pearl Izumi M2) to try and help my calf.  After almost 50 miles, I think it's working.  My massage guru noticed I wasn't as knotted up as usual.  

After my massage I went across the street to a consignment Sporting Goods store, I started digging around in a bucket of bike parts and found an Adamo saddle-looks like brand new.  So I paid the guy 40.00 and now am the owner of a new Adamo saddle. Sweeeet.

Race schedule is shaping up-if my calf is going to continue to cooperate, I may be able to get several events in this season; 3 Bike Tour, Ragnar Relay, Oly Tri, and (hopefully) my first HIM.  In addition I'll be training/racing some local 5-10Ks and trail runs.

On an unrelated note; I've tried...really tried..to get on-board with this whole beer snob thing.  I've drank IPAs, American Pale Ale, small batch, nitro charged etc, etc, etc.  Some were OK, some were NOT good, and only a few I considered 'good'.   I'm going back to my PBR.  It's good, it's cheap and it's dependable. 

Taste in beer is like taste in everything: you like what you like. Kudos for going out and trying other beers, you never know what you will/won't like unless you try. A couple weekends ago was "National Corndog Day" and I was at a gathering with lots of corndogs and PBR (one of the sponsors) and I must admit I drank more than a couple of them, easy drinking and good for washing down corndogs.

That sounds like an awesome job. Good luck!

It is finally in the books. Went for my first lunch time run...mainly icy, snow paths...cannot wait for it to melt....hopefully in the next couple of days. I am sick of winter! Need to buckle down on the training/weight loss. Of course going out for tacos and beer last night are probably not ideal for weight loss...
Cheers!

All the rainy weather California missed during winter is trying to make an appearance in spring. Yesterday I did a fast 3 mile run (fast for me at least, 8:30 pace) to beat an incoming rain cloud and toady I did my hilly 6 mile run and barely beat the wet stuff. My shoulder is giving me some issues so I'm going to take a break from the water and cardio-kick for a week to hopefully let it settle down.

Two months later, back in the pool. Could be better, could be worse.

Soooo, who is doing the next triathlon?? There has to be someone down south(or Spain) doing one soon??

Hey, how about posting your top three value priced wines from Spain?? I would be interested in seeing if I could find them in Canada and trying them out. Shhh, don't tell anyone I also drink wine(even some fruit beer David).... 

One weekend ahead of me! My first triathlon of the season is going to be the Wildflower mountain bike sprint course on May 4th.  If life didn't get in the way I would have done one back on March 23rd (local college Tri).

The last two weeks leading up to Wildflower are pretty full as well: charity 10k on the 19th then half-marathon on the 27th. The 2 mile run at Wildflower should (hopefully) be a breeze after that buildup!