His goal is to work up to the longer distances. We have to spend a little more money on a bike though because he loses too much time to the men who have the $5,000 bikes. He can smash them in the swim and in the run, but a nice bike will put a whole lot of time on a 17 year old with only a $750 bike.
We wish. We kept waiting to see if he was going to hit a growth spurt before we bought him another one. He seems to have stopped growing, so I guess we will check into the Sears bikes.bikes have gotten ridiculous
you can do quite a lot with a sears bike
He is a senior, but he injured his hip flexor as a freshman and fractured his hip when he was a sophomore. Last year he was a little apprehensive because he didn't want to get hurt again, but he did run his best 3200 with a 9:56. Last night they were running all the boy's events so he didn't have much time to rest between the 1600 and 3200 so he didn't get a good time but it was a 10:11. He hasn't had many opportunities to do the 800, but he has done a 2:08.
My youngest just bought a restaurant in the Rhone Alps in France with her German husband and moved there. Not sure how I feel about that yet...
Their restaurant is in Pralognan la Vanoise, in the Vanoise national park. I put a link to it from Trip Advisor below, also the view from their house. They live in a little village named Chamberanger, population 17, including them. That's year-round. When they were buying the house and restaurant, the banker told them that the sale wouldn't have been possible, had Dominik not been German. There are so many Russians buying up French property using Americans as fronts, there's practically a banking embargo. Dominik is fluent in French as well as English and, of course, German. He spent his summers in France while in elementary and high school with a French family, so his French sounds native. Their village, tiny as it is, has a tiny bar. They were eating there a couple of days ago and, as they left, Dominik said "see you around" in French. Another customer, not a resident, having driven up from the valley, said something to the effect that he doubted it, since Dominik was just a tourist. The bar owner just said laconically "They bought Serge's house." That ended that. Dominik actually looks far more French or Italian than he does German...
Their restaurant is in Pralognan la Vanoise, in the Vanoise national park. I put a link to it from Trip Advisor below, also the view from their house. They live in a little village named Chamberanger, population 17, including them. That's year-round. When they were buying the house and restaurant, the banker told them that the sale wouldn't have been possible, had Dominik not been German. There are so many Russians buying up French property using Americans as fronts, there's practically a banking embargo. Dominik is fluent in French as well as English and, of course, German. He spent his summers in France while in elementary and high school with a French family, so his French sounds native. Their village, tiny as it is, has a tiny bar. They were eating there a couple of days ago and, as they left, Dominik said "see you around" in French. Another customer, not a resident, having driven up from the valley, said something to the effect that he doubted it, since Dominik was just a tourist. The bar owner just said laconically "They bought Serge's house." That ended that. Dominik actually looks far more French or Italian than he does German...
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Actually, they went into Switzerland yesterday to return the rental van. Italy is only 4 kilometers away and there used to be a salt and necessities road or path over the Alps right there. If anything's there now, it's just a trail which crosses a glacier. Despite the small distance by air, it takes them about 3 hours to reach Turin, because they have to descend to the valley and travel south where a road crosses a pass at the border.
