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Lake Placid 2024: Day 4 of 7
I was on a three-day posting streak but was too tired yesterday afternoon to write one. I only biked 60 miles yesterday but it was in multiple sections around and during my friend Tom’s Kayak-Bike-Run race. My broken ankle limited me to biking, taking photos of the kayakers, and cheering the runners on my bike.Continue reading “Lake Placid 2024: Day 4 of 7”
Lake Placid 2024: Day 3 of 7
Yesterday’s post mentioned my ankle injury (from a bike crash on 7/13). A “mild” ankle sprain should be better after one to two weeks so when I still had significant pain on day 12 I made an appointment to get it evaluated at the orthopedics urgent care. Of course by this morning (day 14) itContinue reading “Lake Placid 2024: Day 3 of 7”
Lake Placid 2024: Day 2 of 7
I had volunteer duties on Friday, Saturday and Sunday so Thursday was my planned long training day. Luckily the weather would be sunny as it would be for the whole trip. I had planned to do a full day long brick (🚴🏼♂️+🏃🏻♂️, ick! = 🧱) of 90/15 miles. But 4 days before my trip IContinue reading “Lake Placid 2024: Day 2 of 7”
Lake Placid 2024: Day 1 of 7
Today is Thursday, July 25th. I started to write a blog post while in Lake Placid but only wrote a few sentences before I remembered that I would need to download my DashCam and GoPro photos before I could get very far. So I downloaded the data cards to my MacBook but then got soContinue reading “Lake Placid 2024: Day 1 of 7”
If it wasn’t for bad luck…
I had thought my run of bad luck was over, but breakfast on Sunday, July 7th corrected that notion. Alex came in after hearing my screech. While laughing they said it reminded them of when we were hiking and Fifa got her 30-foot leash wrapped around my legs and then sprinted off; I was upendedContinue reading “If it wasn’t for bad luck…”
Moving on out … 🎶
I’ve already been back in Buffalo for 8 days but have been too busy to write about my June 20-24 NYC trip. I’ve been doing a lot of triathlon training including just in the last week; an 80 mile bike ride, a 3 mile Lake Erie swim, a hilly 4 hour Brick (🚴🏼♂️🏃🏻♂️ICK), and aContinue reading “Moving on out … 🎶”
Father’s Day …
With my Dad’s death now 5 years in the past and my kid 500 miles away, Father’s Day was meh. Although Ironman Florida is still 20 weeks away I was scheduled for a long brick workout (🚴🏼♂️🏃🏻♂️ick = 🧱) of 70/12 miles. As the killer heat dome was starting to arrive I headed out onContinue reading “Father’s Day …”
Swim-Run-Fun in 🇨🇦
Wow, this is my third blog post in June! WordPress says that over 20 people read my last one! But I only got one “like” or “comment”. My most devoted reader mentioned recently that I should make each post shorter as people don’t like to read so much anymore. I am working on that andContinue reading “Swim-Run-Fun in 🇨🇦”
The Graduate!
It has been three weeks since I came back to Buffalo so apologies for taking so long to write about my trip to NYC for my kid’s college graduation. Having had their HS graduation ruined by the first wave of COVID-19 in 2020 I was very worried that the Mideast war protests might affect theirContinue reading “The Graduate!”