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Around and around and around and around…

Workout today was Fiesta Island repeats as a time trial — as many laps possible in 4 hours. While Fiesta Island is very flat, it can be very windy.  Today was typical where it started out calm, but by then … Continue reading

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Fundraising event was a huge success

On Tuesday evening, the team hosted a charity auction event at Anthology San Diego. It was a wonderful evening. Everyone contributed so much time and effort to make this happen.  It was great to be a part of it! http://www.ironteamsd.org/2011/goin-kiwi-for-a-cure-was-a-smashing-success/ … Continue reading

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Bike versus Spin

  Yesterday I did both a bike ride and a spin. They have different goals and impact and the training profiles are vastly different. On a normal ride, the speed (blue line), elevation, and heart-rate (red line) vary greatly, while … Continue reading

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Bike, spin and swim…

Feeling the need to get some mileage in on the bike, I went for a ride with a co-worker during lunch. We rode from the office, down to the coast and back, just about 15 miles in the 60 minutes … Continue reading

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Polar swim… or at least it felt like it!

Brrr! It was really cold tonight. Or at least cold for San Diego. A cold front blew through over the weekend and today it was 52° tonight and the winds were blowing like crazy.   Not as many showed up … Continue reading

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Squeezing in a bike…

It has been fairly stormy this weekend but the gamble to move the bike to Sunday afternoon seems to have paid off.  It turned out to be a fairly nice day, though a bit windy and slightly chilly (for San … Continue reading

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And the rain came…

The bike workout was rescheduled to tomorrow due to the heavy rains. So today was spent relaxing and doing chores and trying to eat healthy.

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Run… Like the fishes!

So it was a bit wet tonight.  San Diego doesn’t really get much rain, but tonight it came down in torrents for awhile.  This made the drive the meeting place for tonight’s run training a bit frustrating. So what looked … Continue reading

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Like a fish…

Tonight was the second coached swim practice. TNT swim caps were handed out and we put our names on them to help with learning names. Coach Robbie and Coach Sam demonstrated the proper use of the marker. The team is … Continue reading

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Casual ride

As it was such a fantastic day today (days like these are why I love San Diego), I took a break from work and went for a casual ride during lunch — just over 16 miles There is a coached … Continue reading

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