The goal coming off of last week’s 5k in Teterboro was to go easy so as not to totally burn my legs prior to the NJ State Triathlon today.  This was to be my measuring stick as my first triathlon with “historical data”.  Just about everything was going to be the same, including the insanely hot weather.Well, unfortunately, the best laid plans don’t always work out: On Sunday I got in the water for a good swim……part recovery, part needing […]

REDEMPTION TOUR STOP 1:It’s been another busy week, but another baby step in the right direction.  I started the week knowing it was going to be a trick to balance another jam-packed work week with another training step and, if I was going to take a recovery day before my first event of the “summer redemption series” (Teterboro 5K), I was going to have to get things done early in the week…….so after my 65-ish mile bike tour from Hunterdon […]

This week was pretty much the microcosm of my life:  always busy, some crazy twists and turns (just when things were starting to settle a little) and squeezing in some training around the schedules of pinging children (see video below).The always-busy part is pretty straight forward; lots of work to get done, never enough time to do it……such is life for most people I guess.  The crazy twists and turns…well, I can’t let the cat out of the bag yet, […]