Thank You!

I want to say Thank You to my blogging friends who are helping me raise money for Bible translation and Team OneVerse. It means a lot when people talk about my cause, post links to the cause, and even let me guest post on their blogs. My goal is to raise $1500 which will translate over 55 verse. With their help it will make it easier to reach my goal.

I especially want to say thank you to these guys for their help -

Jay - janeyandme.blogspot.com

Dana - danaelaineellis.blogspot.com

Dan - danieldenardo.blogspot.com


If you want to sponsor me you can. The cost is $26. Just Click Here!


I also understand that budgets are tight and sometimes you don't have the extra money. But if you want to help you can by helping me get the word out. If you have a blog, twitter, facebook or any other social networking site I would appreciate if you could help me get the word out. If you want to you can put a link to Team OneVerse. Also if you would like I would love to do a guest post to let your readers know about my cause. Anything would be appreciated.

Also this is my 275th post. So, thank you to all my readers who give me tips, comments and for keeping me honest. This blog is something that I enjoy because of you guys who keep me going. Thank you for reading and especially for you comments!

How Many Languages Are Left?

This banner is a list of every language left on earth that still has no Bible. When you see it up close, it has an amazing effect. But that power is nothing compared to the power of God’s Word in your own heart language.

If you want to know more I got this from the Team OneVerse Blog.

Right Now I'm training for the Augusta 70.3 in September to help raise money for Bible Translation. There are thousands of people right now waiting to read God's word in their own language. You can help by sponsoring me. For $26 you can get one verse translated. All you have to do is CLICK HERE.

Tips Treaks and Treats

Here are a few Tri Runner approved triathlon and endurance sports related podcast. You can download all of these for free in iTunes.


The Age Grouper

Zen & The Art of Triathlon

Stay Tuned Report

Swim Bike Run TV

Tacboy 'n Bigun Podcast

Tri The Mango

Triathete’s Coffee Shop

YOGAmazing

I love podcast because I can learn a lot about triathlons from listening to what other people are doing. I’m always looking for other good podcast to listen to. So, what’s on your ipod?

Training Update

Last week was a recovery week! The plan was to do 5 hours of training. I want to say that I got pretty close to that. But my training was not very traditionally. Last week I did a little bit of everything. I work a ton during the week and didn’t have much time to train. I got most of my hours in during the weekend. I was off only two nights last week. One night we spent at a church league soft ball game and the other night we went to see a fireworks show. So with all that I had to do it was a perfect time to have a recovery week.

I played 2.5 hours of soft ball during the week. I’m not sure how shagging fly balls in the outfield and running the base will help with my training but it was a fun way to done some quick sprints. It’s weird I can run or bike for 2.5 hours and not be as sore as I was last week after playing softball.

So with all the soreness I did about 30 minutes of yoga. The stretching felt good and I helped me recovery from the game. I need to find more time to do yoga because when I do it really helps me the next day.

Last weekend I went down to my dad’s who lives near Sea Side Florida. It was nice to have a new place to bike. I did two early morning rides along the strip on Sea Side. Riding by the beach was cool but there were tons of runners and cyclists out getting in their workouts. With all the runners and bikers it looked like everyone was getting ready for a race.

I wanted to get an open water swim on the beach but they had red flags up and I figured that it wouldn't be a good idea to go out for a swim. So I went back to my dad’s and got in a swim there. He lives on Tucker Bay that connects to the Inter Coastal. I did about a 20 minute swim and best I can figure it was about half a mile.

I also took my daughter out in a sea kayak. Sarah Jane loved it. We sang, “Row Row Row Your Boat” for about 30 minutes. It was some great daddy daughter time.

I only had time to get in one short run. It was an easy 2 mile run that took about twenty minutes.

After last week I am feeling mentally and physically refreshed. Right now, only 12 more weeks till Ironman 70.3 Augusta. Life is good.

Independence Day Highlights

The morning Independence Day my Dad & I went out on the boat with Sarah Jane and my nephews. We are on the boat called Magic. My dad built this boat last year. It is a WWII crash boat that can go in 6 inches of water. My dad took us on a ride through some of the creeks.

Here is a video of us on the boat


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-KuT2zoJCY

Later that night we went to Sea Side to see the fireworks. Before the firework show the band Rollin’ In The Hay played. They covered one of my favorite songs. Here they are covering Widespread Panic song called, “Porch Song”.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xs0AwyGRAU

The firework show at Sea Side, Fl was awesome! The firework show was set to music and they shot them off on the beach in front of a huge American Flag. It was a moving show. I would say that it was one of the better firework shows I’d ever seen.

Life Is Good.

Happy 4th of July

Thursday night we went to the Marine Base for thier Independence Day Celebration. They had bands, food, jumping play things for the kids, and of course fireworks. Here is some of the pictures from the night.

Sarah Jane Got To Meet Miss. Georgia

Can You Guess What Color Snow Cone I Had?

Me And Mrs. Tri Runner

Here is a video Sarah Jane with her friend last year.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjEdzmxrz0E

I hope everyone has a Safe & Happy 4th of July.

Life is Good.

Tips Tricks and Treats

What does Will Ferrell, Oprah Winfrey, Lance Armstrong, P. Diddy, Kerri Strug, and George W. Bush all have in common? They all have ran a faster marathon than me. Here is a list of 25 Celebrities who've run marathons. How many can you beat?

Don’t rest in Transition. Learn how to get in and back out on the course.

If you are new to triathlons or you just want some information this site is all about the newbies.

If you are looking for a running camp I don't recommend that you go to this one or even watch this video. This is Nike's Bear Butte Running Camp.

Take Me Out To The Ball Game

You Can Take The Player Out Of The Game

But You Can't Take The Game Out Of The Player

On Tuesday Night I played two games of softball. I play with my church Westwood, in a church league. We won one of the two games. I played right field for one game and catcher for the second game. I need to get me some pants so I can slide. I had couple good slides one at second base and one at home. I don’t think the catcher understood physics because he was higher and I was lower which wasn’t a good thing for him. I went in hard at home and he flipped over me. Which was pretty sweet!

My teammates said it was a good thing I shaved my legs for triathlons so that the slide didn’t hurt as bad as it did. Church league softball is no joke. I’m still a little sore today. Here are some of my battle wounds.

Life is Good.

2009 YTD Training Update

Here Is My 2009 Year To Date Training Update

The above graph shows the amount of miles I've ran each month going back to June 08. Here is my swim bike run breakdown for 09.

Swim - I've gotten wet 21 times going 20.3 miles in 12 hours and 17 minutes.

Bike - I've gone for 28 rides covering 406 miles in 31 hours and 14 minutes.

Run - I've laced up my shoes 62 times running 417.4 miles in 64 hours and 18 minutes (that's 2 days & 16 hours worth of running).

That is an average of 70 miles per month. By The Way - I've gone nearly 400 miles on the same pair of shoe. It's about time to get a new pair. This pair is by far the longest pair of shoes that I've trained with. I've been told that most shoes can go somewhere between 300 to 500 miles. So it won't be long until I have to retire these.

What is longest pair of shoes that you've had or trained with?

Resolutions Review

Today is June 30 and we are half way thru 2009. Where has the time gone? I bet many of you guys have forgotten about your Resolutions but I'm try very hard to keep my New Years Resolutions. Back in January I made Nine Resolution for 09. This is a progress report on how I’m doing on keeping my resolutions.

1. Take Mrs Tri Runner on one real date every month.

This was my first one for a reason. I really wanted to work on my marriage. My idea is that a date night would mean that I would be spending more time with my wife with undivided attention. Now some dates have been better than others but I’ve worked hard to try to make my wife feel important. So far this year has been better than the last and it has been one of our better years of our six year marriage.

2. Take my little girl on one Daddy Daughter Date per month.

Not only did I want to spend more time with my wife but I didn’t want to leave my little girl out. Her dates have been a lot of fun.

3. Teach Sarah Jane how to swim.

Well I don’t know if I can take full credit for her learning how to swim. She has really tried and worked hard all summer on learning how to swim. But I do remember that she wanted to jump off the diving board one time but was too scared. She had not jumped in the deep end without a floatie before. She climbed up there and started to cry. I was standing beside her telling her that her mom & I would help but she would not move. So I just pushed her in. When she came up she laugh and swim to the side. Ever since then she has been swimming all over the pool. Either way I can check this one off my list.

4. Teach Sarah Jane how to ride a bike without training wheels.

I think this might be too much right now. Last year she feel off her bike and she has been scared of falling again. We have ridden our bike some but I’ve got to work on confidence first before I can take the training wheels off.

5. Read Three Books this year. (I know that sounds sad but I'd rather be running than reading)

I have found a way to read and run. I’ve discovered audio books. So far I’m a third of the way there. I just finished reading the book The Tipping Point.

6. Run At least Three Marathons.

What can I say? I ran the Disney Marathon in January, The Albany Marathon in March, and the Country Music Marathon in April. I can mark this off as done.

7. Break 6 Hours in a Half Ironman - Current PR is around 6:45

At this point I’d be happy with a Finishers Medal and a New PR. On paper I feel like I can be somewhere between the six hours and fifteen to thirty minute mark. But that is on paper and I don’t run races on paper. Anything could happen on race day!

8. Finish a Century Ride

What was I thinking? I could still work on this but right now my longest ride of 2009 has been just over 30 miles. We’ll have to see about this one.

9. Break 20 minutes in a 5K - Current PR is 20:50.

I’m thinking about working on this goal in the Fall. There will be a lot of 5K in town then and that will give me a couple of chances to break the 20 minute mark. But again what was I thinking?

Right now I can check two of the nine of the list. Three of the nine look like I’ll be able to do or complete by the end of the year. Four of the nine will be a challenge for me to be able to mark as complete. I’ve got 6 months to work on seven things which is plenty of time for me to procrastinate - no wait, I mean finish.

I say all this so that you guys can keep me honest and help motivate me to get all nine goal.

Life is Good!