Friday's Five: Tubulars or clinchers?

FRIDAY, MAY 30, 2008

1. Tubulars or clinchers?

Tubulars. They ride better and except when I ride over a nail (I think that was at Memphis in May a couple of years ago) no flats yet! (Of course there was the stale glue issue when I crashed at Ironman Canada in 2005, but let's not go there...)

2. What's your favorite stroke?

A controlled hook into the green over the trap? No, it's freestyle. I like backstroke but am slow. Fly is fun but too exhausting. I suck at breaststroke.

3. Have you been penalized? For what?

Not yet!

4. What did your last track workout consist of?

Last night: 2 mi warm up on the trail, then to the track for 6x100 strides, 2 x (800 (300 recovery jog), 600 (300 recovery), 400 (200) recovery, 200 (100 recovery), 200 hard (100 recovery), 200, with 400 jog between sets and 800 cool down afterwards. About 7 miles in total.

5. Are you a member of a group of triathletes (besides tri-drs)? If so, how did you get together and what do you do together? If not, why not?

After being tired of not having riding partners during weekday early mornings, I started The Wednesday Ride three years ago. We are a small but mighty group of mainly triathletes and now get together to ride most weekends, as well. Also, many tri people are members with me in the Jim Spivey Running Club - we run track on Thursday nights and a tempo run on Saturday mornings, as well as go to races together often.