kaburns1214 and UHCoog's Mentor Group-Closed (Page 64)

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday yesterday.  I got to play in the pool with my girls all day.  I'll just say that the conversations I had with my girls were much more mature than those going on around me.  Needless to say it kept me in the pool and engaged with my kids all day so I didn't have to have any "adult" interaction.

An hour in the pool and 90 minutes running today.  Legs felt heavy.  Probably the crap food I put in my system yesterday.

I'm not gonna lie, being a tech geek, this looks really cool:

http://jet.reconinstruments.com/

I'm not a tech geek and it looks cool. 

Now to convince my wife that she should buy this for me now as a Christmas present since delivery would be around that time.

Eh.  I'd rather have so many other things that help performance.  A coach, a new crank w/ Qrings, that almost gets you a set of Flos (could definitely nab you a deep front and a disc cover), a couple half ironman entries, a really good wetsuit, the new Rudy Project helmet, etc.  If I had EVERYTHING I wanted sure $500-$600 on that would be nice.  I don't though

There are many other things that would benefit me more, but convincing her would be the issue.  There's also the fact I'd prefer not to put more money in upgrades to my existing bike when I'm trying to change to a tri bike next season.  Not sure what I'll be getting yet, so I don't want to pick up stuff that might not swap over.  

Truthfully the biggest benefit I could probably pick up at this point would be a coach, but I promised her I wouldn't even consider it until this season of racing is over.  She wants to be sure I'm completely hooked, but not letting it take over my life so much that she becomes secondary.  It's already rough enough on her between my work schedule for my full time job, and my work schedule for my racing job.  Adding the training and tri races has taken a bit of a toll.

It's one thing to cross an intersection carefully when the light is red, and there is no traffic there that will trip the sensor for you.  It's completely different when you do what this guy did.  Good on you for lecturing him.

Carrie, the highest I've placed in my sprints so far has been 10th, so I'm by no means an age group contender.  I'd say if it gives you the level of comfort you need for the swim, wear it regardless of the water temp, I would if I wasn't comfortable.