Deuces Wild Triathlon Festival

Renee (TriCats) and I are headed up to Show Low this weekend for the Xterra Race. Since Trisports.com hosts the event, I get a huge discount for racing this year. There are three races, road on Saturday and mountain bike/run on Sunday. I plan on doing both races, road and mountain (like last year). The combined festival is one of the best races in Arizona and has $10,000 in prizes to give away in a raffle. Basically, if you stick around for the raffle on Sunday, you are going to walk away with something.

Lenz Leviathan or Moots Mooto-X YBB (SS)?

Which would you choose and why?

Signal your turn

I had a few questions about bikes this week, seems like people are starting to switch over to alternative modes of transportation, which brings me to the Bike Art of the Week from Margarita Faustino....

Ouch!

Today's workout had a focus on the stomach/midline:

Five rounds for time of:
2 pood Kettlebell swings, 25 reps
25 GHD Sit-ups
25 Back Extensions
25 Knees to Elbows

Swim: Long Course: 4 x 50m 15”, 2 x 100m 30” , 2 x 200m 30''
Bike: Long Course: 8 x 2k 90”
Run: Long Course: 2 x 200m 60” + 2 x 400m “90 + 1k.

Update on this weekend, I had to postpone the Coconino Dirty Century due to adverse weather conditions. I decided to work more this weekend and possibly do a century road ride tomorrow.

Bike Art of the Week

Courtesy of CJ Marxer

Commuting around Tucson

Grocery shopping is always easier when you ride use a BOB trailer...

Is it ever too hot for coffee?

110 degrees in Phoenix yesterday and 104 degrees here in Tucson. As I write this post, we are having wind gusts up to 25 mph today. Enter the new early morning ride schedule. Today, I got up at 4:45am thanks to my mental alarm clock. There is nothing like getting a nice bike ride in while the sun is rising over Tucson and having a post-ride coffee while it is still cold. Rode for a little over 20 miles in the 2 hours I was out.

The plan is to do more early morning rides/runs, then nap for a bit, before returning to the pool (3-4 days a week) for some swimming.

Side note: On the way into work yesterday, the clerk at Circle K was bewildered at my refill coffee mug (bottle from my bike) and the following exchange began.

"I have never seen that before, a sports bottle."
"Oh yeah, well, I am on my bike right now."
"Really? In this kind of heat? It is way too hot to have coffee!"
"It is never too hot to have coffee, and bikes and coffee are synonymous."

Rain is in the forecast for the Coconino Dirty Century this Saturday. The plan is to hang around for some riding with Dave C. on Elden on Sunday, perhaps even hang around until Monday early morning before returning back to Tucson.