SF Half Marathon...

Here we come... February 6, 2011!

Race Day Report

6:00AM, McNear's Beach, San Rafael
Setting up transition area in the dark

7:15AM
Sunrise over McNear's Beach—where 500 swimmers will take to the water at 8AM

7:50AM
Suited up and more or less ready to get on with it

7:52AM
Schmoozing with Coach Beau before the start

8:01AM  Team in Training wave enters the water

8:56AM
RG finishes 1.5K swim (plus major navigation error detour--rats!) and resolves to make up some time on the bike

9:04AM
RM rescues downed teammate on her way out of the Bay

10:08AM
RM having more fun on the 35K ride than that guy from the Olympic Club

10:14AM
RG sporting fewer tatoos--but scarier race face--than the competition

10:25AM
She who forgot to take off her biking gloves in T2

11:15AM
RM finishing up the 10K run, smile still intact

100 meters to go and still smiling!

12:06PM
Team Rebecca reunited at the finish line

Many thanks to Ásta Sveinsdóttir & Ted Groves for most of these photos!

RM borrows Sheila Taormina's Olympic Gold Medal on Inspiration Day

Sample taper week workouts

Who knew that 6 months later...

Rebecca M. would be flying into the finish of our first practice triathalon!

Very tough, very proud

Celebrating a remarkable recovery--exactly 6 months to the day since RM's stroke. Only 3 more weeks to go until our first full-length triathalon. (...and she also finished writing a chapter this week!)

RG preps for the big 3 Bears ride with Coaches Haakon & Megan

Into the Light

Emerging from fog-laced Golden Gate Bridge, we biked and ran in the Marin sunshine, Rebecca G. earning highest praise from Coach Haakon: "Rebecca's a machine!" (Note to RG's dad: Flying Squirrel has without a doubt outgrown "the slows"!).

Brick by Brick

A sample workout for this week:

Captain's Bike/Run Workout

Where: McNears Beach, San Rafael

What: Triple Brick Workout =

3 x (Bike 7 miles + Run 3 miles).

Perfect opportunity to work on the transitions!

SF Weekly votes Team In Training as "Best Training Group" for 2010!

See article here

Like the Bike

Rebecca G. dreams she can fly (Mojo Cafe and Bike Shop @ Divisadero, a fave spot of ours).

Suiters

Our team hits the open water for the first time--in wetsuits (and monastic hats).

Serious Soup

Running through the thick sea fog, we encountered a flock of snowy plovers...and a lone fisherman (or two).

Cruise in the Scruz

Cycling in the Santa Cruz mountains seemed a great way to mark our friend Tom's 65th birthday. All the up made all the down even sweeter.

Biathletes

We rode through Golden Gate Park for a run on Ocean Beach--and could have been triathletes today, had the Sutro Baths not burned down in 1966.

Steam rising off the pool early Sunday morning

Nervous in Novato, right before our first swim-run with the team: 2k of swim drills and then about 6k on the running trail....all before morning tea?!

Getting serious about cycling

It was only an 18 mile ride, but it seemed to defy physics and be steeply uphill in BOTH directions—particularly hard climbing up past the Cliff House (note to self: don't do that with a flat tyre again...). Rebecca G. gave me a lesson on how to patch an inner tube, and, this being San Francisco in summertime, we headed for the nearest warming hut to thaw out afterwards.--RM

If the gear fits...

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