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Quinoa, Natalie Portman & Macklemore...

Thursday, 18 April 2013 01:10

Movies and Quinoa, Hammering and Holding...

By Suzie Fox (http://suz--news.blogspot.com)

I set a PR for movies watched on my bike in a single month in March (12 movies + 2 full seasons of TV shows). My biking volume always picks up in March but the temperature remained cold and the snow kept falling so I didn't ride outside once the entire month. I didn't even consider it actually and I am already 4 movies into April but I did FINALLY get out for a 2 hour ride on Sunday, my first of the season. AND then I woke up to an April 11 blizzard! Good thing I love my trainer as much as I like riding outside. This was a great year to upgrade to a new jumbo flat screen TV and some sweet ghetto beat wireless Dr. Dre looking headphones that block out the noise of my bike and make it easier to hear to hear the TV, they have gotten tons of use!

March Trainer Movies & Shows:

The Other Woman

Everybody's Fine....

"Six Pack Girl"...

Tuesday, 16 April 2013 01:10

girls In the last two weeks MTN had posted stories about guys who not so long ago had set performances standards in our region. But life and circumstances and general stuff has gotten in the way. As a result, those guys--Curt Wood and Jeremy Sartain--are no longer visible and felt presences on our racing scene. Both plan to return. We wish we could tell you when that would be. Soon, we hope.

Check out the photo (L), which was taken at the Buffalo Triathlon in 2005. What do you see?

You probably know that the girl on the left with the awesome guns is Julie Hull. Most folks in our community recognize her because she's so dang good....

Be Careful Out There...

Monday, 15 April 2013 01:10

Let's Be Careful Out There.... (thank you, Phil Esterhaus)

By Amy Bauch (http://amysrunningaround.blogspot.com)

Spring is in the air and it it time to get the bike off the trainer and back on the road!

NOT!

I write this on April 11th -- a date far enough along the calendar that we SHOULD be able to be out on the roads, but alas, in case you haven't heard, Minneapolis (and much of the midwest) has been the victim of a very lousy spring. Rain, cold, wind followed by more rain, cold, wind and today -- yes, today, the city received 7 - 10 inches of wet, heavy snow.

What a difference a year makes. Last year at this time, the weather was warm, lakes were open, people were out on bikes, and golfing and living large....

Heartrate Monitor Relevance...

Sunday, 14 April 2013 01:10

Some experts believe that power meters and speed and distance devices have made heart rate monitors irrelevant.

By Matt Fitzgerald

Heart rate monitors took the endurance sports world by storm in the early 1990s. The practice of heart rate monitoring appealed to cyclists, runners and triathletes as a way to make their training more precise and scientific. By the late