Friday Funny 1231: Mad Libs for Calling Congress

Melissa Hunter created a helpful Mad Lib for calling you Congressmen/women to complain about the state of affairs:

Click here to enlarge.

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Friday Funny 1230: Funny Wedding Pics

Yes, you know me, and you're not surprised that I'm starting with a porta-potty pic. :)










Nerds. (But still awesome.)








Wait... what?... is this implying... OH GOD.

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Semi-Wordless Wednesday: The Tutti Frutti Shorts are DYING!

On Saturday, I noted that I wore my Tutti Frutti shorts to a waterpark. Well, my sister-in-law pointed out a hole in them as I was walking up the stairs in front of her.

Right near my crack.


Showing that skin can be seen through it.

I think I "burned" a hole in it from going down too many waterslides.

The good news is that in triathlons and duathlons, I wear tri shorts underneath these. So they're not TOTALLY done just yet...

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I'M WORKING OUT AGAIN!

Yesterday, my wife went out for a long run, and I got ready for a quick bike ride once she got back. We both ended up in our bright tights:

So YES, I'm biking again! When I saw Dr. Folske for some A.R.T. (like a deep deep sometimes horribly painful massage) a week ago, he said that now with all of my rest, I NEEDED to try running again. So after not running for 3 weeks (and not doing any swimming or biking for 9 days), I WENT FOR A RUN LAST WEDNESDAY. My knee felt like I figured it would throughout (it hurt most of the time), but then the rest of the day, it felt better than it had felt for the last few weeks.

So February started with some rest, and the last week had 2 SHORT runs and my first outdoor ride of the year on my tri bike yesterday:

(My short ride told me 2 things: first, my neck isn't used to being in aero. When I'm on the trainer, I can look straight down and not crash into something. And second, I've got a LOT of work to do on the bike before multisport season in 2.5 months.)

Dr. Folske actually told me to NOT rest anymore and get right back into my old routine. He thinks he helped to break up some muscular issues, and now it NEEDS it's normal activity to stay healthy. (My lower quad on the inside just above my knee is still tight/sore, but now it's not "pulling" on my knee and hurting it anymore.) I'm not going to TRULY jump back in at "full speed" because I don't want to be dumb, but I'll try to bring back my normal workouts over the next week or 2 and see how that goes. Wish me luck!

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Weekend Waterpark!

My in-laws treated the families of all their kids to a night at a hotel/waterpark in Owatonna, MN. (The Holiday Inn with the "Great Serengeti" waterpark inside.) Here are 6 quick pics from last night and this morning:

My wife and son after a fun ride down the slide.


Me and Henry!


Mama and Charlie!


LOOK AT MY WIFE IN HER HOT BIKINI!
(And oh yeah, I wore my Tutti Frutti shorts.)


Charlie figured out the secret to winning Skee Ball.


My in-laws with their 5 grandkids!

Thanks for the fun night, Bryan and Monica! As Henry was showering off before we had to leave a few hours ago, he was crying and saying "but I don't WANT to leave! It's too fun here!"

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Friday Funny 1229: Kids are Weird

More funny things on steveinaspeedo.tumblr.com. HAPPY WEEKEND!!

p.s. I just posed a sort of "funny" on my Photo Blog. Go check out some good Valentine's Day cards for the photographer in your life.

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Friday Funny 1228: Reactions to Gaga's Super Bowl Halftime Show

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Friday Funny 1227: Americans F*cking Up Food

This is a Brit's take on 27 of the odder things we cook/eat here in the U.S.:

I've always giggled a little at "cheese nips." Glad I'm not the only one.

And that last spaghetti grilled cheese sandwich doesn't look too bad!

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Friday Funny 1226: Special Delivery

This is actually pretty amazing.






"Nah, I don't need a bag. Got any packing tape?..."

I don't know why I get such a kick out of these. Here's a "special delivery" post from 2 years ago, and here's another one from 2 months ago. Enjoy.

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Half Marathon Stroller World Record

My multisport “race buddy” Suzie Fox was in Florida this past weekend spending time with her sister and her niece and nephew. She raced a half marathon while she was there, and posted this on Facebook:

Her caption: ”We did it! My niece, nephew & I lowered the Guinness World Record
for Female Half Marathon Pushing A Double Stroller from 1:49:23 to 1:47:51.
Pushing 106 lbs total up the causeways was soooooooo HARD!!!!!!!”

NICE! CONGRATS SUZIE!!

When I raced the Lake Johanna 4 Miler last year with both boys, I figured our double stroller and 2 boys weighed about 102-104 lbs. (And the same goes for our Thanksgiving morning 5K with my son and nephew.) And as Suzie noted, it’s work on the hills!

Here are 2 more photos that Suzie’s sister posted before and during the race:

Pre-race.


At mile 9 with both kids sleeping. As I’ve noted
many times before, kids are unimpressed with speed. :)

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Injury Update: Knee Still Hurts

Three weeks ago, I raced the YWCA Indoor Triathlon. My knee held up fine - I had some pain 2 weeks before that.

Then 3 days after that race, my knee hurt on an easy run. I called that my last run for a while, and just kept swimming and biking.

This past week, I finally went to see Dr. Folske for some A.R.T. on my leg. He thinks somethings a little tight or "caught up" around my knee, but that it shouldn't be too big of a deal. He REALLY worked my knee and quad well, and apologized for (probably) ripping out some hair. Here's what my leg looked like once I got back to my car post-visit:

It doesn't come through too well, but that's a LOT of red.

Then the next day, I saw Robert at Element Wellness Group for some acupuncture. He ran some electricity through my leg: a bit on the top through a tight part of my lower quad, and then a long section on the bottom along the outside of my knee:

My leg twitched from the electricity during the entire 30 min session!

I realized what part of the issue was a week ago when I saw Folske and Robert: when I first had the knee pain 5 weeks ago, I took some time COMPLETELY off. When it came back, I kept swimming and biking, and it didn't get better. I noticed this when I printed out my training plan to take to Folske. See? Have a look:

(Purple is aqua jogging or bike training/spinning.)

My knee still isn't totally better. Folske hoped I could run this past weekend, but I'm not there yet. We'll see how much longer before I try swimming, biking, or running again. Hopefully soon! In the meantime, I'm stretching, heating, massaging, and trying to take care of this knee! Fingers crossed!

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My Boys

This last week was "Catholic School's Week" for Henry in kindergarten. So they got to dress up on certain days. Here are 2 cute pics from my Instagram page:

"Sunday Best" day.


"Future Me" day.

Despite my wife and I telling him he should be an engineer because he loves to build and loves Legos so much, Henry keeps saying he wants to be "an artist, professor, and daddy like daddy" someday. (Which is ADORABLE, but he'll be broke for life.) So he's went to school dressed up like me as I headed off to class.

That night (Thursday) we took Henry to the Doctor because he had a HUGE tonsil and complained of a sore throat. He had strep. So Friday looked like this:

Caption: "Being home with a kid with strep throat feels a lot like being a negligent parent.
Our morning: cartoons, movies during my appt, and a quick stop at Izzys Ice Cream."

He's feeling better today. But my wife works this weekend. So it'll be 3 days straight of squirrelly boys cooped up with Dad. We're trying to get out when we can. :)

Oh, and here are 3 more Instagram pics from recent weeks:

Building an ice fort along the Mississippi. I could barely lift some of those
ice chunks! It got pretty big - look at how small Henry looks in the bottom photo.


Henry reading Charlie stories before nap time on a weekend where Mama was gone.


Adventures with Charlie: potty training at the gym, shoveling sidewalks, and falling asleep early.

Back with a (non) training update on Monday. Happy weekend!!

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