You just finished you’re first triathlon! What are you going to do next?
I’m not sure. After my initial somewhat negative feelings about Sunday’s experience, I seem to be changing my mind a bit. I’m still reading tri blogs. Still thinking about different training strategies, and I’m curious how much better I could do on my [...]

Today, I completed the Strawberry Fields Triathlon.
Danielle and I got up at 6:30, which is kind of early for a weekend. For breakfast I had a bowl of honey nut cheerios with skim milk (because my 2% milk had turned sour on me). After tending to the rats, we headed out. We managed to fit [...]

Two more days to the tri… I skipped out on last night’s bike ride because my back was acting up a bit. Today and tomorrow are my scheduled days of rest. Nothing to do but stay well hydrated. I use my watch to help me here. I get the interval timer to beep every 20 [...]

Today I finally did another ocean swim. I’ve been wanting to do one for a while, but it’s been raining most weekends. There have been dry spells, but since it rains so infrequently around here, rain tends to wash a lot of oil and pesticides into the water. With barely any rain in the last [...]

DVD content is a lot better than VHS content. The sound and video are higher quality, they can contain interesting extras, and you can easily skip around. But they scratch easily, and once a scratch gets bad enough it’s impossible to play the area of the DVD that’s scratched. I can work around that problem [...]

Did my second brick today, and it was hard. I rode the longer way home, which is 14.5 miles and hilly instead of 12 miles and flat. It took 55:29, which I consider good time. Then I had a 1:52 T2. I guess that’s slow, but at the race I won’t have to maneuver my [...]

After a week of a kind of hurt back (swam once), and a week of vacation on the east coast (ran once), I’m back on top of things this week. While I don’t always enjoy all my exercise *cough*swimming*cough*, it is satisfying to have done them all, and feel pretty good. Here’s a breakdown of [...]