2011

2011

                  My 2011 goal was to keep the weight off and start hitting personnel records (PRs). I did both. A PR in the Half Marathon ( 1:48:03), at the Outer Banks ( a weekend in which everyone in t family ran something and I ran 8K on Saturday and the Half the next day).  I had a PR in the Kent Island Metric Marathon (2:18:39). I got a PR on a ten miler (1:28:27). I was just off the podium of the Ooh Rah run Series with a PR on a 5K of 21:08 (4^th place) and 31:05 on a 7K(5^th place).

                  So that sort of gets me to now. While I was transforming, so was my wife. She had also taken advantage of the WW at work program from my company, which had extended it spouses and also lost 55 lbs. This included her transformations to a runner and now a tri athlete. She got her bike in August 2011. A Giant Avail 2 from the awesome folks at Parvilla Cycle and Multisport in Edgewater, MD (http://parvillacycles.com/). We had read an article in the Patch (http://edgewater.patch.com/) about the opening of the store, about how non-pretentious they were to new cyclist and one day we popped in. Stu Waring and Sara Banks were so cool about answering Bobbi’s questions and by August Bobbi had her new bike. Believe it or not, by the time Thanksgiving had rolled around she had done a duathlon, her first Triathlon, the Navy 5 Miler, a 8K in the Outer Banks, and the Camp Letts Turkey Trot.

                  So the end of the race season brought the worry the lbs would go back on. How to insure that was NOT going to happen…Computrainer to the rescue. Bobbi signed up and was ready to get in bike shape quickly.

Instead of riding a one-size fits all spin bike at your local gym, Parvilla had stations that required you to ride your own bike to provide real-life training. Great for Bobbi but I had no bike. After, what I thought was some awesome negotiation on my part I got to use a Giant Defy 2 from the shop for the start of computrainer season. What I didn’t know that Bobbi had actually bought the bike as a Christmas present for me…I was riding my own bike and didn’t know it.