Rye By The Sea Duathlon 2012

So this past Saturday was the 16th Annual Rye By The Sea Duathlon.  It consists of a 5K paved/trail combo run, a 17 mile bike, and then the same 5K  run, but backwards. I’ve been interested in this race for a few years now, but finally signed up this year in advance, thus making it…

Mia’s Birthday Hike

For Mia’s birthday this year, she wanted to hike another 4,000 footer and knock another one off her list.  I suggested, why not just 1, how about 3 peaks in one hike. So it was decided to hit the Willey (pronounced like silly), Field and Tom loop from the Willey House to the AMC Highland…

Stellar Weather (FINALLY!)

We’ve been in this weather pattern the past 2 weeks where it as been fairly  nice on the weekends and absolute crap blah weather during the week.  We had wind, rain, clouds, etc Monday – Wednesday this week and Monday – Friday the week before.  Again, the weekends were good, but getting out of work…

Xterra Patanella’s King of the Hill

Paul and I headed to Lebanon, NJ this past weekend to race the Xterra Patanella’s King of the Hill.  I was doing the duathlon and Paul the Triathlon. It’s been a long time since I have traveled more than 2 hours for a race.  Excluding my half marathon vacation trips of course, but those don’t…

New Race Shoes

It’s been almost 20 years since I had a pair of dedicated race shoes for running.  My last pair was in high school for spring track season. I’ve  been contemplating a race only pair of shoes for awhile now, I just couldn’t decide which pair to get.  After almost a year on my Saucony Peregrine…

Tuesday Night Ride 5/8/12 – NO RIDE AGAIN

Well, apparently it is going to rain every Tuesday  now.  Forecast for tomorrow is low 50’s and ALL DAY rain.  So you can ride outside if you want, I may go out myself if it isn’t too bad, but no planned group ride again this week. Perhaps we can break this crappy weather pattern for…