You do not talk about Fight Club

Is Fight Club appropriate Christmas movie watching?  Probably not, however, it's what on while I wrap up some online work.

TRAINING
This week has been a little low on training with the Liam situation.  He's not been cooperating like wanting to not sound like a goose while breathing, so his surgery has taken precedence.

I did manage almost 5 hours for the week.  Hoping for a treadmill run tomorrow morning (bleh) as winter has finally come to town here in Kansas City.  Temps in the teens, 30 mph wind gusts, snow (only around an inch expected).  Plus I'm watching the 2 year old solo so I can't leave the house and running in single digit temps PROBABLY isn't a good idea with a 2 year old.  =)

I am surprised at being able to hold 19+ mph on the trainer.  I credit that to getting outdoor rides later in the year over lunch at work, keeping my bike legs.


EXAMINER
Moneyman Ironman
Bike Recall
Kansas City Events


FALKEE TRIATHLON
We have gained a new sponsor!  The Regimen has been added.  Falkee Triathlon members get a free month of Condition level membership to try out!  Thanks to @KTFit on twitter!

We're up to 6 sponsors, and 2 more are pending!  Very exciting!  40+ athletes have sent in requests to be a part of the inaugural season, and I'm narrowing it down to 10 total.   Good competition out there!  Hope to have the team narrowed down after New Years!


FAMILY
Liam, oh Liam.  He's still having a rough time.  I don't want to get too in depth but he could definitely be doing better.  It puts a little bit of a dark cloud on the holiday season, training, work and life to have him and Emily gone so much.  All you can do is pray and hope for the best.

Hope winter is treating everyone good out there!

Is it Friday yet?

This has been the longest week.  Maybe it's the kids getting up at all hours, maybe it's daylight savings time, maybe it's trying to fit a full week of training into 5 days... or maybe it's just a long week??


TRAINING
I actually got up to get 27 miles in on the bike this morning.  This could be the end of temps being acceptable (above 40) enough to ride during the morning.  I tried working some sprints on a road I know well so speeding in the dark wouldn't be as daunting.  It was a little depressed to see the average speed was sad and slow.  If I didn't know better, I'd say I have lost some speed, which sucks.  Maybe it's working out in the cold, maybe it's being tired.

It's always interesting to look at the Garmin mapping to look at the sprint sections.  You can see my one street I rode and the speed up for sprint and slow down for recovery back to the other end.

EXAMINER.COM
Kansas City Events This Weekend


EVERYMANTRI.COM
Endurance Athletes : Get Organized and Get Fast


FALKEE TRIATHLON
In addition to adding sponsors, I have added a new athlete!  Welcome Gregg Pellicone from Indy.  Check out his blog at www.conepile.blogspot.com!

I am looking to add more athletes and sponsors by the end of the year!  If you know anyone interested than pass the info along!

Also, here's me with the Monk Pak!  Stupendous, right?

FAMILY
Seems the consensus on the toddler that refuses to sleep all night is to tough it out.  No one had a miracle cure.  Thanks for all of the responses.  Sadly, they all were the same answer.  Time.  Argh.

Little man is on soy milk now.  He seems to be doing better and hopefully the little ear infection and lung virus the Dr said he might have won't give him much trouble.  He can't win for losing.  At least we are another week without a hospital visit!  And, he's officially 1 month old.  Feels like he should be 21 which how much we have crammed in with him.


FANTASY FOOTBALL
For those of you keeping score, I'm 14-13 after 9 weeks.

YAHOO League 1 : 6-3 Had a good showing from C Bensen from the Bungels and got me a nice win.  San Diego's Rivers is on a bye so I'm stretching with starting Vince Young.  Throw the ball to Randy Moss early and often!

YAHOO League 2 : 4-5 I managed to eek out a win and stay first in my division with a losing record.  That's probably the only way I will make the playoffs... if my division keeps sucking!

CBS : 4-5  Not going good.  Another lousy week.  I need some running backs and Shonne Green has been a bust with the Jets!  C'mon man!

If there's enough interest, I might start up a Blogger / Twitter league for online bragging rights.  You can never play too much FFB!!!

60th Twitter Follower!

So I've been climbing the social ladder on Twitter (https://twitter.com/TriJayhawkRyan) and moved up to 60 whole followers!  Woo hoo!  https://twitter.com/fiftyforbilly was my first 60th follower (I got to 61 and some people un-followed me... the nerve, right) and then I was at 58 then got back to 63.  The second 60th follower will be spot lighted in another post.

But, wanted to dedicate this post to @fifftyforbilly as Elizabeth has a cause for running 50 marathons in 50 states.  Her Blog can be seen HERE and I'll give you a little snip-it from her site and why she is running 50 marathons in 50 states.

"On September 1, 2006, my father suddenly passed away. I was only twenty years old when I lost my best friend. The loss of my father motivated me to run 26.2 miles in his memory. My goal is to run one marathon in each state for my Dad and for myself. I hope this motivates you to find a positive and active way to cope with the loss of a loved one. Who will you run for?"

As you can tell, her cause is very passionate and she's not really doing it for recognition or money.  Very inspirational!  Glad she was my 60th follower!  If you have time check our her blog, leave an inspirational comment and check her twitter feed out and follow her there as well as she aims for her goal of 50 marathons!

Good luck Elizabeth!