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Hope everyone has had a good start to the week! Should everything go as planned I've already found a pretty sweet deal on a car. 

Back to tri's...I got my Garmin 910xt in the mail yesterday! Man is this thing sweet! There is sooo much it can do. I haven't even used it yet but would recommend it to anyone!

There's two ways to do it.  Completely submerged or in the regular lane lines that are 4-5' deep.  I'm doing it in the lane lines.  There's no deep end at my gym, and you need a weight and preferably some breathing equipment to do it in the deep end.

How cute! I adopted two kittens about 10 months ago, definitely the way to go. My boys, Calvin and Hobbes, are awesome!

On a totally non tri note I foster for our local animal shelter. I usually take in kittens and grow them up and socialize them so they are more adoptable. I decided to take on a mama and her day old puppies this time around for some puppy fun. Here is a recent video of them at 6 weeks. We're hoping that most of them will be 'pre-adopted' when people see all of their cuteness. Otherwise, they will still go quick once they are back at the shelter. The big black dog is ours. He's 13 and we got him from a shelter when he was a year old.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm-b74ViBzA

I see, the people that do it in my pool wear a belt floating in the deep end and their feet never touch the bottom.  But they all turnaround and are only in the deep end where it is 8 or 10 feet deep.  There is actually one guy that competes to win in many of the local and regional races that does his recovery runs there.  60 - 90 minutes and he doesn't use a floatation belt.  Not sure how he does it as he has single digit body fat percentage. 

Hope everyone has had a good start to the week! Should everything go as planned I've already found a pretty sweet deal on a car. 

Back to tri's...I got my Garmin 910xt in the mail yesterday! Man is this thing sweet! There is sooo much it can do. I haven't even used it yet but would recommend it to anyone!

I have both the 910 and 310, yes I am a gear junkie, and I prefer the 910 for most things.  The swim data, although sometimes the truth hurts, is tremendous. 

But the bike data for those that use power is great.  A lot of the data was available from the 310 but you couldn't see it until it was downloaded.  But with the 910 you can display a 3 second or 10 second average which smooths out the current number.  Also, my coach looks at TSS which is total stress score and even goes as far as to tell me XX:XX time or XXX TSS, whichever comes first. 

The only problem I am having is with cadence.  For some reason it appears to be way high, and I suspect it is getting data from both the speed/cadence sensor and the power tap.  The 310 doesn't have this issue, but I have messed with the settings and haven't figured it out yet. 

You will enjoy the 910 I am sure.

I have both the 910 and 310, yes I am a gear junkie, and I prefer the 910 for most things.  The swim data, although sometimes the truth hurts, is tremendous. 

But the bike data for those that use power is great.  A lot of the data was available from the 310 but you couldn't see it until it was downloaded.  But with the 910 you can display a 3 second or 10 second average which smooths out the current number.  Also, my coach looks at TSS which is total stress score and even goes as far as to tell me XX:XX time or XXX TSS, whichever comes first. 

The only problem I am having is with cadence.  For some reason it appears to be way high, and I suspect it is getting data from both the speed/cadence sensor and the power tap.  The 310 doesn't have this issue, but I have messed with the settings and haven't figured it out yet. 

You will enjoy the 910 I am sure.

If you switch back and forth between bikes or use different devices on the same bike the garmin will drop it's own speed/cadence sensor and then read it off of your power meter, if you have one.  This is an estimate, and cyclops estimate is awful!  just go back to settings and re-search for speed/cadence sensor and it will read off the the garmin sensor again.  That should fix it.

After doing a Spinnerval workout on Sunday, my legs were tired for yesterdays run. Could of been the kicking at swimming too. They feel better today so I'm hoping my run later will be better. I have a strength work out too. I'm off to ride my horse at drill team then I'll do my workouts in the afternoon today.

Happy Tuesday to all!

I will try it again, it is good on the 310 but so far I haven't been able to get fixed on the 910.  I wonder if it is because it is actually not the garmin speed/cadence sensor.  It is the one that Trek makes and is built into the bike.