Some updates

Bulleted list today, my friends. I'm feeling lazy.Every other Thursday we do a swim/bike brick out at Jordan Lake. This is great open water practice and we get a quick little bike ride in before heading to Tyler's Taproom for eats and drinks. I was semi-motivated and actually worked the swim. It was fun having my friend Alysia out there to push me in the water. She is moving away in the coming months and I have to bank all the Alysia time I can *sob*I...

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Another Local Sprint

We keep it busy around here. Friday evening we met some friends out at The Triangle Wine & Beer Company where they were tapping a bunch of different Sam Adam's brews (one's I had never had - like their yummy Chocolate Bock). Logan did pretty good in the Baby Bjorn and there were a surprising number of babies/kids there (someone was even carrying around their little dog, I guess that sort of counts).  Saturday morning was the Harris Lake Nuclear Swim, our 4th of 5 open water swims in the Triangle Open Water swim series. We definitely...

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Logan 8 month update

Logan turned 8 months old yesterday. It really is true when they say time flies...it's an interesting phenomenon as when he was very little I was thinking that it was ALL LIES! But now I can sit here and think, I can barely remember him being that little! (FYI, we went to dinner with some friends who have a 2 month old). And I guess it's at this point when a lot of people start to contemplate having another. I can totally understand as I'm already not clearly remembering the first several weeks and gosh shouldn't Logan have a sibling? The answer...

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70.3 Raleigh

Ironman just announced a new 70.3 right here in Raleigh, NC. It sounds a bit logistically challenging with 2 transition areas, but they do this at a handful of races so I have to assume that it will run smoothly.  I say assume because you all know what that means!  Anyways, the swim is at the same venue as our Big Deuce and Little Uno swim races which is closer to Pittsboro than Raleigh, but the finish line is in downtown Raleigh.Marty and I (after a very brief discussion - I'm talking like: Me - should we sign up? Marty - yeah.) are...

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Lake Logan

What started out earlier this year as a weekend getaway with friends and racing, turned into me driving by myself to race in the Lake Logan sprint triathlon. Here are the results.I really love this race and venue. It's absolutely beautiful surrounded by mountains with a lake that is always wetsuit legal. There's something about western Carolina that suits me - when I get out there I get this sense of calm and wish I didn't have to leave. Much to...

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Back from Vacay

We had a nice time in Avon (Kinnakeet), NC last week. Marty put up a few pictures over on his blog you can check out. Logan enjoyed the pool, which was sort of the only 'activity' he can do at this point.We took him to the beach for a short period, just to stick his feet in the water and let him feel the sand on his feet. I didn't want to actually sit him in the sand since I know that he would immediately try to eat it and then rub his eyes or something....

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