I know Diane and obviously have raced along side her many times. It’s actually kind of funny. We both have many of the same friends and yet we’ve never been formally introduced. It’s one of those funny things where a neighbor of mine will say “I just saw Diane at the club and she said she really wants to meet you.” Or me saying to another mutual friend, “I heard Diane got really sick last month and it took her out of her training. How’s she doing?” I think I know more about Diane’s training than some of the folks that I coach.  It’s a little Tom Hanks in You’ve Got Mail J

As for training, last season we posted bricks on this forum whenever we were going to do them, including a 8-mile time trial run from 9W to Lake Tiorati, a Harriman. Bear Mountain Brick, a bunch of WCC rides that we turned into bricks just by letting folks know that was an option, and even the Montauk Century we treated as a brick and ran around the lake after we were done before getting on the train to go back to Babylon.

We’ll also be doing the Lehigh Valley Half Marathon and turning that into a biathlon of sorts as one of our team members has a lake house so we turn the weekend into a bit of a tri camp with open water swimming, riding and the half marathon, and then I’ll be going out to Los Angeles in March to turn the LA Marathon into a brick workout as well with a few of the Race with Purpose team members and a number of the team members on the USC Triathlon team.

As for Tupper Lake weekend, we race on Saturday and then we have a house in Placid so on Sunday morning, we ride off one or more loops of the IMLP bike course and follow it up with a swim in Mirror Lake before heading back down south.

How’s that for options? J

You can check out racing options for us at my blog at www.racewithpirpose.org/coachadam and you can also look at Javier’s site as he updates his training regularly at http://www.operationironman.com/.