the answer my friend...

is blowin' in the wind...yeah, it was yet ANOTHER windy day here in Madison, WI. K and I went for a quick bike ride (I had to get home to meet a potential roommate for the next lease year). K and I started from the Arb bridge and biked out for a little over 30 minutes -- all of it directly into a nasty headwind. At the intersection of PD & Seminole Hwy, there's a fountain across the road (approximately 120 feet away) and we were feeling the spray while waiting at the traffic signal. Total time out: 42 minutes (front door to turn around) - top speed: 22 mph (on a downhill)
Total time back: 35 minutes (turn around to front door) - top speed: 32 mph (on a slight downhill).

...who's reaching out to capture a moment...

Yeah, everyone knew it was windy outside here today. That didn't stop K and I from tackling most of the Capitol View Olympic Tri bike course, and added on a few extra steep hills (uphill into the wind, of course). This was the second half of today's brick workout: 3 mile run, 30 mile bike. The tailwind sections were quite fun on my trusty tri bike.


Yesterday was about 1400 yards swimming - the pool was changed back from long course to short course temporarily...long course should return next week. Getting to push off every 25 yards is a bit too easy when I can glide the first 5+ yards of each length.

Tomorrow is the start to a "rest weekend". Actually its my annual guilty pleasure. A 54-hour marathon trivia contest up in Stevens Point, WI. I'll probably only sleep 6-7 hours between noon Friday and 1am Monday...all in the name of fun!

...It's my birthday too, yeah...

Celebrated my 33rd birthday yesterday with a nice 2+ hour ride with K (she's training for IM WI this year) where it seemed like every significant uphill stretch was into the teeth of a 15-20 mph east wind. The downhill stretches were almost all with that as a tailwind, so that part was fun, at least.

Last week, I managed to overdo a set of swim workouts, with 45 push ups, followed immediately by a mile straight (in the evening) and turned around the next morning to do another 1200m (mix of swim, kick, pull stuff). Gotta say that 100m straight kicking in a 50m pool is really really boring. To combat that boredom, I went for it and bought the H2O Audio Interval 3G and an iPod Shuffle. We'll see if that is all it's cracked up to be.


I'm officially in for all the races on my calendar now (there was a hold up in processing due to the discounts offered to the UW-Madison triathlon club), so I suppose I should figure out what I'm in for with the Chisago Lakes 1/2 Iron. Anyone know anything about the course or the lake?