My burger recipe - cheese stuffed

About a dozen saltine crackers, 1 egg, about 1/2 cup mustard, and 1 1/2 cups of "Tastee" house style salad dressing. And 1 packet of onion soup mix. That was what worked out for about 3 1/2 lbs of burger.

Form thin, wide patties. Put a thick, square slice of cheese on top, another pattie on top of the cheese, then form the edges together. Grill with the cheese in the middle and -voila- cheese-stuffed burgers.

Thanks to Trees restaurant for the idea, they do it with Blue Cheese!

Links to the Pardeeville Triathlon photos.

One professional photo from the Tri.

Another here.

First Triathlon & Duathlon

My first triathlon went quite well. I had set a goal of 1:46. Based on training and the Norski Duathlon, I expected to do a 12 minute swim, 60 minute bike, 30 minute run, and 2 minute transitions. Well, I beat all of them except the first transition time! I guess I had no idea how fast I could go until I did it.

Abe Degnan

bib number:	256
age:	34
gender:	M
location:	Deforest, WI
overall place:	221 out of 359
division place:	14 out of 25
gender place:	160 out of 203
time:	1:32:12
pace:	0:
swim:	8:05
t1:	3:04
bike:	49:54
t2:	1:50
run:	29:20
penalty:	0:

There was a good showing from DeForest. I think that I will continue to do this race. Who knows about any others. I know I will also continue to do the DeForest Norski Duathlon.

My pace in the Duathlon, biking, was just over 15 mph. I smoked that in the Tri by hitting a pace of 18.0 mph! Luckily, I had borrowed a nice bike with pedal clips and shoes from Aaron Tobison. I think the road bike (as opposed to my mountain bike) as well as the clips really helped me.

Before the duathlon, I had never even raced a 5k before. I knew from training that I was running around 32 minutes. I hoped to break 31 for the race. I was very surprised to do that run in only 27:46! My overall time of 1:58 was great, but next year I surely want to break the 1 hour mark on the biking if I use my mountain bike, or, if I have a good road bike match the 18.0 mph pace again.

Next elusive goal is yet to be able to finish the 2nd leg of the Duathlon and the running leg of the Tri without having to walk.

DeForest Norski Duathlon 6/12/2010

Overall Rank 72/106

Category Rank 15/16

Bib 113

ABE DEGNAN 34 M

Run Rank 67

Run Time (5K) 27:46.9

Transition 1:51.0

Bike Rank 77

Bike Time (15.5 mile) 61:40.2

Bike Pace 15.1

Transition 2 1:18.5

Run 2 Rank 64

Run 2 Time (2 mile) 20:11

Run 2 Pace 10:06

Total Time 1:52:46.5

Coors Light commercials - the best ever?

I have gotta say that these Coors Light commercials really crack me up. It is a winning ad campaign and a timeless concept.

The great thing is that there is a YouTube play list of most/all of them and they can be seen here!