drblake

I work at Banfield in Beavercreek and I would recommend them to anyone. They are the largest national chain of pet hospitals so they have much better equipment than others because of corporate support. If you have any questions about the wellness plans or anything just pm me.

Yeah, I was thinking that since I'm not a real hardcore mountain biker I would probably just stick with the lx with the hydro discs. That leaves me more money to upgrade my tri bike anyway.

Actually I'm a sponsored rider for flyte1.com so I get pretty good deals. I am fairly new to mountain biking though(I do mostly tri's) so I was wondering if any "experts" could give their opinion on pro's and con's of each.

Mostly what I do is XC which includes many southern Ohio hills. The only MTB race I plan on doing is the offroad half-iron which isn't really a speed challenge, it is more a test of who can actually finish.

Anyone have any opinions on good/better/best as far as price vs performance when it comes to the Deore LX, XT, and XTR component sets? I know that the XTR is quite a bit lighter and does cost quite a bit more but is the increased performance worth the money?

WOW, I can't believe that Mike Brown is a member of CR.com. That is just amazing!

Yeah, Bob Sapp is huge but he has lost quite a few fights to guys who kick a lot and take out his legs. Plus, anyone who is able to take him into the second or third round usually beats him because he has such terrible endurance.

Movie wasn't too funny but an A+ for the ads around the screen.

Nice find. I would love to have something like that.

When you are doing your runs you need to keep your heartrate in the fat burning range for your age which is probably around 155 or so (I'm not real sure so I'm jusr guessing). That might help somewhat but I've never met you so I don't know what you look like or anything so it is hard to say exactly what you need to do. I definitely stand by eating smaller portions more often especially if you are living a pretty sedentary lifestyle most of the day.

If pushing yourself is the problem then you need to get a run partner who is better than you who will also be willing to help you out and push you further and harder than you want to go. If you do that once or twice a week that would really help get your competitive spirit up.

I've also heard that interval training is a good way to train. I don't know how effective it is at the shorter distances (5-10k) but I know for a true distance runner it is tried and true. In case you aren't familiar with interval training that is running then walking in intervals, mostly time intervals. When you run, run hard.

I would suggest not running 6 out of 7 days in the week. Not because it is bad for you but because you are going to get tired of it and begin to hate it. I personally run four days out of the week with one long day (being much longer than you are interested in), I swim 3 days a week and bike 5 days a week. I'm sure that you aren't quite interested in getting that deep into it but I train pretty religiously. I get up at 5:30 to do all this and usually do my runs at 10:00 at night. I would definitely suggest the cross training though so that you don't tire out mentally. I actually picked up this program after speaking with an olympic qualifier in marathon distance when I was training for a marathon.

Take it to the humane society or a "no-kill" adoption agency of some sort if you are worried about the cat living. The only thing that will be done at this point is an amputation of the leg because it is easier and cheaper to amputate than it is to set and cast on a feline.

Man Hole. Nice.