Hawaii Ironman Viewing Ride:

In Lieu of the typical Saturday morning ride there will be an indoor ride on Saturday while we watch the Hawaii Ironman Broadcast. The show begins at 2:30 so please arrive early to get set up. Bring your own bike and trainer. RSVP so I know how many to plan for.

On behalf of the coaching staff at MHM I wanted to wish everyone a healthy and happy holiday season. just ask . We had our extended family in town this past weekend and celebrated both Thanksgiving and Christmas within 48 hours. For those of you looking to relieve Holiday stress, I highly recommend cramming both holidays into a 48 hour window. Actually, you can throw them all there and get them all out of the way. I propose Holiday week and you can pick which 7 you want to celebrate and get them ALL out of the way……………….

Congratulations to….

Scott Binzer of Kentucky (Coach Pete), 10k Turkey Trot, 46.24 (10th age group, 90/720 overall) and Mike Nims, Castle Rock, Co (Coach Pete), 5k Turkey Trot 22.48.

Upcoming Races:

Coach Kathy heads to Tucson this weekend for the marathon.

Several of you are running the Rudolph’s Revenge 10k at Chatfield on December 15th. If you have changed plans please let your coach know so your schedule can be changed.

Ross Hauser will run the Disney Land Half Marathon in January and Marion Hauser will run the full marathon.

2008 Race Schedules……..

If you have not finalized your 2008 plans with your coach PLEASE do so immediately.

Welcome to…

Troy Green, Kansas City, Mo (Coach Steve). Troy is signed up for Ironman Cour D’ Alene in June of 08.

Logging Your Workouts………..

Your coaches can not emphasize the importance of timely and proper documentation of your workouts. It is important for your coach to know how your body absorbed the workout, what your perceived exertion or average HR, and your general thoughts on the workout. This aides your coach in developing future workouts. A few of you are not logging workouts at all, others are just putting in the time worked out with no comments, distances etc. It is up to you what to put in, but you will find more personalized workouts if you provide more detail. Let your coach decide what is enough but at minimum, time, distance, effort, average heart rate if you used an HRM, how you felt during the workout, any residual soreness and if you liked the work out or not (not that it will make a difference).

Speaking of Workouts……

When we moved from Training Peaks to Workout Log I had to manually enter in all workouts. A few of you have pointed out some errors in the length of the workouts and in some of the directions. My apologies and please keep bringing these to my attention so I can clear up any confusion. One of our goals at MHM is clear/concise directions in all workouts. If you find a workout that does not make sense PLEASE write and ask for clarification.

Holidays…..

During this time of year, family should be number one on your priority list. When faced with the challenge of family or sport, do the right thing……. Put some emotional deposits in your families bank. I’m confident you will be making some withdrawals this summer. Enjoy the holidays, watch what you eat and drink, get some well deserved rest and remain as active as you can.

Congratulations to Cody, Brian and Courtney for getting into Ironman Arizona in November of 08. Just getting in can be the biggest battle these days!!