After watching my Suunto app tell me I was “Losing Fitness” and now “Recovering, good luck in your race if you have one,” I feel ready to get back on the fitness horse. I’ve been looking for the next triathlon and would love to do the Boulder 70.3 but it just may not be in the cards due to the family situation. Maybe I’ll do a self supported one, more to follow on that.

Anyway, after my upper body strength workout I hit the treadmill and ran 6 miles at an average of a 7:37 pace! I was stoked about that and felt great the whole time. I was going to do 7 miles but peeleed off as I’d been gone from home for a long time. My engine felt good, but as normal, breathing was the challenge. I had a stitch begine before the 2 mile mark and had to really focus on breathing the whole time, as per the norm for me at the altitude here in Utah. Once I did that though I was good. It also helped that I’d plugged on a station on Pandora that I actually got good feels from-the Van Halen station (Yep,l graduated High School in the 90s).

Annnd, I was stoked to find out that Brett Blankner is back with his podcast Zen and the Art of Triathlon. If you like triathlon and haven’t listened to his podcast it’s worth a try to see if it suits you. I’ve listened to Brett for over 10 years, wow, over 15 I think. He’s a great American, lives in Texas and has completed multiple Ironmans as well as other endurance events. He has spent time coaching and stays abreast of and liberally shares tech advances of note to triathletes, good stuff.

My next upcoming event of note will be mountain biking in Moab. Our youth group is taking the boys there in June so I hope to get some good rides in. I’m resopnsible for figuring out how to keep all ~20 of us hydrated during the week, let me know if you have good ideas. I’m considering dry powder vs. bottled gatorade, dry ice in coolers or stocking up on ice from local stores, etc. Colleagues have suggested freezing cases of plastic bottles of water but I’m not overly stoked about so much bottled water and plastic. Don’t people know we’re in a climate crisis?! That reminds me that I’ve got to pick up some camelbacks for the trip also.

Thanks for reading and have a great week. More to follow on teh Moab trip and which tri(s) I’ll do here this season.