Foggles work well

They're like towelettes and you wipe your goggles with them pre-swim. 

I spit in my goggles and rub it around, then a quick rinse and good to go.

Kelly, the run/walk was more by "feel" this time. I went 1.75 miles run, .25 walk, 1 mile run, .25 walk, 1.5 run, .25 walk, 1.2 run

No real plan, but I think next time I'll try and do something more on purpose. 

MTB is a blast.  And you don't have to put in huge mileage to feel the pain. I also plan to try one of the Winding Trails weekday Xterra Tri's.  I think they start soon.  Next bike for me will also be a 29'er.

Really want to try MTB'ing.  Need to borrow a bike because that's way down on the priority list.

Did three 3.5ish mile repeats yesterday because I had 1.5 hours to burn in the morning and was just curious.  My legs hate me this morning for it.

Bike checked in to Rev 3 (complete with super cool Pikachu decal)

Today's stupid move of the day comes to you, courtesy of Me. 

Kel and I went to packet pickup at Quassy this afternoon.  Looking at the race numbers list, I saw Kel's name but not mine.  Then it dawned on me what Kel was talking about when she was mentioning the race program. 

You guessed it.  I never actually registered for Rev3.  Kel asked around at the packet pickup and found one of the staff members for me to talk to.  The race was sold out but she was able to give me one of the race packets from someone who did not race the olympic today. 

In the end, I was able to get registered, chipped and load my bike into transition.  But definitely can be considered the stupid move of the day.

That is a cool decal.  Good luck to you, Shaun, and Jeff.  What's your goal?

bike checked in, dinner eaten, watching "how to train your dragon" for the 200th time with my 3 year old, will have another bottle of sports drink, 1 beer and in bed at around 9.  its game day tomorrow!

good to to rudy at ridgefield and eveyone else whose racing. 

Good luck tomorrow!!

Here's a link to live feeds for the Oly (hopefully)

Nice! I was watching the feed earlier (not crazy about having the video ads in Spanish, don't know what that's about!). Got bored as I'd usually catch a time when NO ONE was coming through. I do enjoy the pics they post up though.

I just got in from a brick workout today, did a little under 11 on the bike, then about 2.1 run.

Probably should have went earlier in the day, as it's farkin' HOT now

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/90386124
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/90386673

Just looked at the race results.  Looks like Jeff came in at 6:21 and change.  Not bad for the first go man. 

DP

Nice!  Way to go Jeff!

It's way too hot and humid here, I'm sure it's not healthy to be out in this.

Rode 70 miles yesterday, followed by a 3 mile run.  Ride was long (flat tire, stops, whatever!) but run was good despite the blazing hot sun.  I counted 8 dead squirrel, 3 live squirrels, 2 live chipmunks, 2 dead birds, and 3 flattened snakes.  Then on my drive home I was talking to my husband and saw a beautiful hawk swoop down into someones yard and take off with what I can only assume was a rat or chipmunk.  Kind of cool to see live, and not on TV.

This morning I did my long run and even though we started @ 7am, it was miserable again.  Saw a couple of squirrels smushed on the side of the road.  It was a bad weekend for squirrels around here.

Oh, almost forgot.  We saw a turtle yesterday crossing the road.  I wanted to stop but didn't want the group I was with to have to wait.  Just as we passed a car drove through on the side he was on.  Not sure if he made it, poor little guy.

I'm only comfortable getting my left foot out.  I think that's the side that just seems natural to lean when I stop.  I can get my right out, but it does feel weird.

Nice riding!

Pretty funny how everyone else knew how i did before I did!  they didnt post race results so i jsut aw them.  i'll post a full race report later but here is the skinny:

ttp://timing.rev3tri.com/Athletes/Results.aspx?raceKey=3676A1D6-A67D-42E1-BEDA-4B4C369A4DCC&athleteId=2379

Rev3 Half - report to follow 6:21:18.  pretty good for me!  Why i lolly gag the swims i do not know.

Everybody talks about the bike on this race.  the bike is a down hill  5 miler compared to the run 6 miles of climbing up a cambered gravel path! WTF!  The run is by far the hardest HM run course I have ever experienced.  if this was an open HM it would have been a beast.  lolly gagged the swim a bit (but the time includes my walk up from the beach to T1).  Swim was 6 minutes of goal pace, Bike was 5 minutes off goal pace and Run was 2 minutes off goal pace.  I took my time in transitions so the 6:10 between T1/T2 is pretty lame (in an oly I through T1 in 45 seconds and T2 in 30 seconds).  In sum I am very happy with my race 5:59 was doable and will happen next year, 6:30 was a very reeaonable goal and was met.  The bike is a beast, the run is a ferocious beast.  Time to drink beer and watch baseball!

By the way - BIG shout out the Rudy 1:11 at ridgefield (final results TBD) PRs on the Bike and Run... he'll be a hard man to beat in Martha's Vineyard in Sept. (i'll have to poison his GU)

here are my stats:

	Race Results   Quassy - Half Rev Middlebury, CT         Name: Sklarz, Jeffrey Bib #: 1427 Age: 37 Hometown: Woodbridge, CT - USA Status: OK Division: Clydesdale Wave: Men 50 and older, Clydesdales Start Time: 7:19:21 AM Penalty: - Total Time: 06:21:18.956     Swim       Leg Places Scan Time Segment Time Segment Length Pace Overall Division   Swim Finish 255 7 7:55:32 AM 00:36:11.493 1.20 mi 01:52 min/hm   Swim Totals: 00:36:11.493 1.20 mi 01:52 min/hm Bike       Leg Places Scan Time Segment Time Segment Length Pace Overall Division   Bike Start 266 9 7:58:54 AM - - -   Bike Split 1 409 14 10:15:16 AM 02:16:22.550 38.60 mi 16.98 mph   Bike Finish 429 15 11:21:20 AM 01:06:03.263 17.40 mi 15.81 mph   Bike Totals: 03:22:25.813 56.00 mi 16.60 mph Run       Leg Places Scan Time Segment Time Segment Length Pace Overall Division   Run Start 430 15 11:24:08 AM - - -   Run Split 1 442 16 12:19:51 PM 00:55:42.836 5.50 mi 10:08 min/mi   Run Split 2 458 16 1:16:29 PM 00:56:37.893 5.40 mi 10:29 min/mi   Finish 463 15 1:40:39 PM 00:24:10.713 2.20 mi 10:59 min/mi   Run Totals: 02:16:31.443 13.10 mi 10:25 min/mi Transitions       Transition Time   T1: 03:22   T2: 02:48

my "problem" is that i really enjoy OWS, i tend not push myself as i am too busy splashing away.  if probably get 20 OWS'/year and 5 of those are races and 10 are while I am on vacation, this was #2 of the year.  i wish it was a 3 mile swim and 30 mile bike. then id do some damages.  i literrally walked from the beach to T1 so that added a minute a 2 to the time so probably did 1:40s not 1:50s which was my goal pace.  2 weeks i have an oly.  i intend to not go easy on the swim.