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Have started scaling back the bike rides and runs, in preparation for the New York City Triathlon, in 8 days!  I will still be swiming hard over the next week, since my swimming is so bad.  Swam twice this past week, but prior to that, it had been a month since I last swam.  Yesterday [...]

Only 13 days till the New York City Triathlon!  Nervous about it in generally, and most specifically, nervous about the swim.  Since the pool I go to has been under renovation for the last 2 weeks, its been 4 weeks since I have last gone swimming.  Pool supposed to be open again as of today, so [...]

The twist... on my bike, not on my feet!  First time I've done hill repeats on my bike. I only have 19 days till the New York City Triathlon, and think I need a little more hill work on my bike.  So, last night, biked out to Central Park, did 3 hard repeats of Harlem [...]

Running – while the number is not that high (43.4 miles over 9 runs), I logged my highest June mileage ever!  June, July and August are my lowest months, respectively.  Happy to get almost 2 runs in per week, along with all my other activity. Races – 1 (Triathlon at Harriman State Park – 1:55:19) [...]

Had an awesome weekend.  Was off on Monday so spent almost 3 days down at my weekend house in New Jersey.  Topped it off with a long 8.7 mile run Monday night - more on that below. Friday, kicked things off with an early morning run to East River Park.  It is notable that it was [...]

T minus 31 days till the New York City Triathlon.  Need to get a good bike ride in this weekend. I'm really high on triathlons after having a great time at Harriman State Park 2 weeks ago.  I WILL do a half ironman some day - they seem so cool.  I've getting notices from the Toughman [...]

Thanks to The Lo Down, I see the next section of the East River Park Promenade is finally open for business!  This is the section behind the track.  Hopefully they can get on with the rest of it quickly.  I won't use the promenade section much, as I use the main road for my runs, [...]

Just a recap of my recent activities: Friday - in the summer time, I get out of the office early on Friday and so took advantage of the extra time to go to the gym for a workout.  With my leg issues, I focused mainly on my lower body.  Little surprised at how crowded the [...]

Sunday was the 24th annual New York Tri/Bi-athlon Series at Harriman State Park, run by New York Triathlon Club.  This sprint tri consisted of a 1/2 mile swim, 16 mile bike ride and 3 mile run.  All in all, I did really well (for me), finishing in 1:54:41.  I felt like my time was great, [...]