1<!DOCTYPE html> 2<html class='v2' dir='ltr' lang='en'> 3<head> 4<link href='https://www.blogger.com/static/v1/widgets/2872013778-css_bundle_v2.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'/> 5<meta content='width=1100' name='viewport'/> 6<meta content='text/html; charset=UTF-8' http-equiv='Content-Type'/> 7<meta content='blogger' name='generator'/> 8<link href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/favicon.ico' rel='icon' type='image/x-icon'/> 9<link href='http://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/' rel='canonical'/> 10<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Triathletes Journey: A "He said, She said" reporting on races and events - Atom" href="https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default" /> 11<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Triathletes Journey: A "He said, She said" reporting on races and events - RSS" href="https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss" /> 12<link rel="service.post" type="application/atom+xml" title="Triathletes Journey: A "He said, She said" reporting on races and events - Atom" href="https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6298488371355794080/posts/default" /> 13<!--Can't find substitution for tag [blog.ieCssRetrofitLinks]--> 14<meta content='http://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/' property='og:url'/> 15<meta content='Triathletes Journey: A "He said, She said" reporting on races and events' property='og:title'/> 16<meta content='' property='og:description'/> 17<title>Triathletes Journey: A "He said, She said" reporting on races and events</title> 18<style id='page-skin-1' type='text/css'><!-- 19/*----------------------------------------------- 20Blogger Template Style 21Name: Picture Window 22Designer: Josh Peterson 23URL: www.noaesthetic.com 24----------------------------------------------- */ 25/* Variable definitions 26==================== 27<Variable name="keycolor" description="Main Color" type="color" default="#1a222a"/> 28<Variable name="body.background" description="Body Background" type="background" 29color="#222a1a" default="#111111 url(http://themes.googleusercontent.com/image?id=1OACCYOE0-eoTRTfsBuX1NMN9nz599ufI1Jh0CggPFA_sK80AGkIr8pLtYRpNUKPmwtEa) repeat-x fixed top center"/> 30<Group description="Page Text" selector="body"> 31<Variable name="body.font" description="Font" type="font" 32default="normal normal 12px Arial, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"/> 33<Variable name="body.text.color" description="Text Color" type="color" default="#333333"/> 34</Group> 35<Group description="Backgrounds" selector=".body-fauxcolumns-outer"> 36<Variable name="body.background.color" description="Outer Background" type="color" default="#296695"/> 37<Variable name="header.background.color" description="Header Background" type="color" default="transparent"/> 38<Variable name="post.background.color" description="Post Background" type="color" default="#ffffff"/> 39</Group> 40<Group description="Links" selector=".main-outer"> 41<Variable name="link.color" description="Link Color" type="color" default="#336699"/> 42<Variable name="link.visited.color" description="Visited Color" type="color" default="#6699cc"/> 43<Variable name="link.hover.color" description="Hover Color" type="color" default="#33aaff"/> 44</Group> 45<Group description="Blog Title" selector=".header h1"> 46<Variable name="header.font" description="Title Font" type="font" 47default="normal normal 28px Arial, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"/> 48<Variable name="header.text.color" description="Text Color" type="color" default="#ffffff" /> 49</Group> 50<Group description="Tabs Text" selector=".tabs-inner .widget li a"> 51<Variable name="tabs.font" description="Font" type="font" 52default="normal normal 14px Arial, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"/> 53<Variable name="tabs.text.color" description="Text Color" type="color" default="#ffffff"/> 54<Variable name="tabs.selected.text.color" description="Selected Color" type="color" default="#0000ff"/> 55</Group> 56<Group description="Tabs Background" selector=".tabs-outer .PageList"> 57<Variable name="tabs.background.color" description="Background Color" type="color" default="transparent"/> 58<Variable name="tabs.selected.background.color" description="Selected Color" type="color" default="transparent"/> 59<Variable name="tabs.separator.color" description="Separator Color" type="color" default="transparent"/> 60</Group> 61<Group description="Post Title" selector="h3.post-title, .comments h4">
62<Variable name="post.title.font" description="Title Font" type="font" 63default="normal normal 16px Arial, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"/> 64</Group> 65<Group description="Date Header" selector=".date-header"> 66<Variable name="date.header.color" description="Text Color" type="color" default="#2a221a"/> 67</Group> 68<Group description="Post" selector=".post"> 69<Variable name="post.footer.text.color" description="Footer Text Color" type="color" default="#999999"/> 70<Variable name="post.border.color" description="Border Color" type="color" default="#dddddd"/> 71</Group> 72<Group description="Gadgets" selector="h2"> 73<Variable name="widget.title.font" description="Title Font" type="font" 74default="bold normal 13px Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"/> 75<Variable name="widget.title.text.color" description="Title Color" type="color" default="#888888"/> 76</Group> 77<Group description="Footer" selector=".footer-outer"> 78<Variable name="footer.text.color" description="Text Color" type="color" default="#cccccc"/> 79<Variable name="footer.widget.title.text.color" description="Gadget Title Color" type="color" default="#aaaaaa"/> 80</Group> 81<Group description="Footer Links" selector=".footer-outer"> 82<Variable name="footer.link.color" description="Link Color" type="color" default="#99ccee"/> 83<Variable name="footer.link.visited.color" description="Visited Color" type="color" default="#77aaee"/> 84<Variable name="footer.link.hover.color" description="Hover Color" type="color" default="#33aaff"/> 85</Group> 86<Variable name="content.margin" description="Content Margin Top" type="length" default="20px"/> 87<Variable name="content.padding" description="Content Padding" type="length" default="0"/> 88<Variable name="content.background" description="Content Backgroun
88d" type="background" 89default="transparent none repeat scroll top left"/> 90<Variable name="content.border.radius" description="Content Border Radius" type="length" default="0"/> 91<Variable name="content.shadow.spread" description="Content Shadow Spread" type="length" default="0"/> 92<Variable name="header.padding" description="Header Padding" type="length" default="0"/> 93<Variable name="header.background.gradient" description="Header Gradient" type="url" 94default="none"/> 95<Variable name="header.border.radius" description="Header Border Radius" type="length" default="0"/> 96<Variable name="main.border.radius.top" description="Main Border Radius" type="length" default="20px"/> 97<Variable name="footer.border.radius.top" description="Footer Border Radius Top" type="length" default="0"/> 98<Variable name="footer.border.radius.bottom" description="Footer Border Radius Bottom" type="length" default="20px"/> 99<Variable name="region.shadow.spread" description="Main and Footer Shadow Spread" type="length" default="3px"/> 100<Variable name="region.shadow.offset" description="Main and Footer Shadow Offset" type="length" default="1px"/> 101<Variable name="tabs.background.gradient" description="Tab Background Gradient" type="url" default="none"/> 102<Variable name="tab.selected.background.gradient" description="Selected Tab Background" type="url" 103default="url(http://www.blogblog.com/1kt/transparent/white80.png)"/> 104<Variable name="tab.background" description="Tab Background" type="background" 105default="transparent url(http://www.blogblog.com/1kt/transparent/black50.png) repeat scroll top left"/> 106<Variable name="tab.border.radius" description="Tab Border Radius" type="length" default="10px" /> 107<Variable name="tab.first.border.radius" description="First Tab Border Radius" type="length" default="10px" /> 108<Variable name="tabs.border.radius" description="Tabs Border Radius" type="length" default="0" /> 109<Variable name="tabs.spacing" description="Tab Spacing" type="length" default=".25em"/> 110<Variable name="tabs.margin.bottom" description="Tab Margin Bottom" type="length" default="0"/> 111<Variable name="tabs.margin.sides" description="Tab Margin Sides" type="length" default="20px"/> 112<Variable name="main.background" description="Main Background" type="background" 113default="transparent url(http://www.blogblog.com/1kt/transparent/white80.png) repeat scroll top left"/> 114<Variable name="main.padding.sides" description="Main Padding Sides" type="length" default="20px"/> 115<Variable name="footer.background" description="Footer Background" type="background" 116default="transparent url(http://www.blogblog.com/1kt/transparent/black50.png) repeat scroll top left"/> 117<Variable name="post.margin.sides" description="Post Margin Sides" type="length" default="-20px"/> 118<Variable name="post.border.radius" description="Post Border Radius" type="length" default="5px"/> 119<Variable name="widget.title.text.transform" description="Widget Title Text Transform" type="string" default="uppercase"/> 120<Variable name="mobile.background.overlay" description="Mobile Backgroun
120d Overlay" type="string" 121default="transparent none repeat scroll top left"/> 122<Variable name="startSide" description="Side where text starts in blog language" type="automatic" default="left"/> 123<Variable name="endSide" description="Side where text ends in blog language" type="automatic" default="right"/> 124*/ 125/* Content 126----------------------------------------------- */ 127body { 128font: normal normal 12px Arial; 129color: #2a221a; 130background: #222a1a url(//3.bp.blogspot.com/-sZoCcF3U69Y/TsE3VL-HDtI/AAAAAAAAAf0/OQXKKGRZUZI/s0/swim_start.jpg) no-repeat scroll top left; 131} 132html body .region-inner { 133min-width: 0; 134max-width: 100%; 135width: auto; 136} 137.content-outer { 138font-size: 90%; 139} 140a:link { 141text-decoration:none; 142color: #0000ff; 143} 144a:visited { 145text-decoration:none; 146color: #0b5394; 147} 148a:hover { 149text-decoration:underline; 150color: #0000ff; 151} 152.content-outer { 153background: transparent none repeat scroll top left; 154-moz-border-radius: 0; 155-webkit-border-radius: 0; 156-goog-ms-border-radius: 0; 157border-radius: 0; 158-moz-box-shadow: 0 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, .15); 159-webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, .15); 160-goog-ms-box-shadow: 0 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, .15); 161box-shadow: 0 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, .15); 162margin: 20px auto; 163} 164.content-inner { 165padding: 0; 166} 167/* Header 168----------------------------------------------- */ 169.header-outer { 170background: #ffffff none repeat-x scroll top left; 171_background-image: none; 172color: #111111; 173-moz-border-radius: 0; 174-webkit-border-radius: 0; 175-goog-ms-border-radius: 0; 176border-radius: 0; 177} 178.Header img, .Header #header-inner { 179-moz-border-radius: 0; 180-webkit-border-radius: 0; 181-goog-ms-border-radius: 0; 182border-radius: 0; 183} 184.header-inner .Header .titlewrapper, 185.header-inner .Header .descriptionwrapper { 186padding-left: 0; 187padding-right: 0; 188} 189.Header h1 { 190font: normal normal 36px Impact, sans-serif; 191text-shadow: 1px 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3); 192} 193.Header h1 a { 194color: #111111; 195} 196.Header .description { 197font-size: 130%; 198} 199/* Tabs 200----------------------------------------------- */ 201.tabs-inner { 202margin: .5em 20px 0; 203padding: 0; 204} 205.tabs-inner .section { 206margin: 0; 207} 208.tabs-inner .widget ul { 209padding: 0; 210background: transparent none repeat scroll bottom; 211-moz-border-radius: 0; 212-webkit-border-radius: 0; 213-goog-ms-border-radius: 0; 214border-radius: 0; 215} 216.tabs-inner .widget li { 217border: none; 218} 219.tabs-inner .widget li a { 220display: inline-block; 221padding: .5em 1em; 222margin-right: .25em; 223color: #ffffff; 224font: normal normal 15px Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; 225-moz-border-radius: 10px 10px 0 0; 226-webkit-border-top-left-radius: 10px; 227-webkit-border-top-right-radius: 10px; 228-goog-ms-border-radius: 10px 10px 0 0; 229border-radius: 10px 10px 0 0; 230background: transparent url(//www.blogblog.com/1kt/transparent/black50.png) repeat scroll top left; 231border-right: 1px solid transparent; 232} 233.tabs-inner .widget li:first-child a { 234padding-left: 1.25em; 235-moz-border-radius-topleft: 10px; 236-moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 0; 237-webkit-border-top-left-radius: 10px; 238-webkit-border-bottom-left-radius: 0; 239-goog-ms-border-top-left-radius: 10px; 240-goog-ms-border-bottom-left-radius: 0; 241border-top-left-radius: 10px; 242border-bottom-left-radius: 0; 243} 244.tabs-inner .widget li.selected a, 245.tabs-inner .widget li a:hover { 246position: relative; 247z-index: 1; 248background: transparent url(//www.blogblog.com/1kt/transparent/white80.png) repeat scroll bottom; 249color: #336699; 250-moz-box-shadow: 0 0 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, .15); 251-webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, .15); 252-goog-ms-box-shadow: 0 0 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, .15); 253box-shadow: 0 0 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, .15); 254} 255/* Headings 256----------------------------------------------- */ 257h2 { 258font: bold normal 13px Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; 259text-transform: uppercase; 260color: #888888; 261margin: .5em 0; 262} 263/* Main 264----------------------------------------------- */ 265.main-outer { 266background: transparent url(//www.blogblog.com/1kt/transparent/white80.png) repeat scroll top left; 267-moz-border-radius: 20px 20px 0 0; 268-webkit-border-top-left-radius: 20px; 269-webkit-border-top-right-radius: 20px; 270-webkit-border-bottom-left-radius: 0; 271-webkit-border-bottom-right-radius: 0; 272-goog-ms-border-radius: 20px 20px 0 0; 273border-radius: 20px 20px 0 0; 274-moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, .15); 275-webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, .15);
276-goog-ms-box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, .15); 277box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, .15); 278} 279.main-inner { 280padding: 15px 20px 20px; 281} 282.main-inner .column-center-inner { 283padding: 0 0; 284} 285.main-inner .column-left-inner { 286padding-left: 0; 287} 288.main-inner .column-right-inner { 289padding-right: 0; 290} 291/* Posts 292----------------------------------------------- */ 293h3.post-title { 294margin: 0; 295font: normal normal 18px Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; 296} 297.comments h4 { 298margin: 1em 0 0; 299font: normal normal 18px Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; 300} 301.date-header span { 302color: #333333; 303} 304.post-outer { 305background-color: #dddddd; 306border: solid 1px #dddddd; 307-moz-border-radius: 5px; 308-webkit-border-radius: 5px; 309border-radius: 5px; 310-goog-ms-border-radius: 5px; 311padding: 15px 20px; 312margin: 0 -20px 20px; 313} 314.post-body { 315line-height: 1.4; 316font-size: 110%; 317position: relative; 318} 319.post-header { 320margin: 0 0 1.5em; 321color: #999999; 322line-height: 1.6; 323} 324.post-footer { 325margin: .5em 0 0; 326color: #999999; 327line-height: 1.6; 328} 329#blog-pager { 330font-size: 140% 331} 332#comments .comment-author { 333padding-top: 1.5em; 334border-top: dashed 1px #ccc; 335border-top: dashed 1px rgba(128, 128, 128, .5); 336background-position: 0 1.5em; 337} 338#comments .comment-author:first-child { 339padding-top: 0; 340border-top: none; 341} 342.avatar-image-container { 343margin: .2em 0 0; 344} 345/* Comments 346----------------------------------------------- */ 347.comments .comments-content .blog-author, 348.comments .comments-content .blog-author a { 349border-bottom: 1px solid #0000ff; 350} 351.comments .comments-content .loadmore a { 352border-top: 1px solid #0000ff; 353border-bottom: 1px solid #0000ff; 354} 355.comments .comment-thread.inline-thread { 356border-left: 1px dashed #0000ff; 357} 358.comments .continue { 359border-top: 2px solid #0000ff); 360} 361/* Widgets 362----------------------------------------------- */ 363.widget ul, .widget #ArchiveList ul.flat { 364padding: 0; 365list-style: none; 366} 367.widget ul li, .widget #ArchiveList ul.flat li { 368border-top: dashed 1px #ccc; 369border-top: dashed 1px rgba(128, 128, 128, .5); 370} 371.widget ul li:first-child, .widget #ArchiveList ul.flat li:first-child { 372border-top: none; 373} 374.widget .post-body ul { 375list-style: disc; 376} 377.widget .post-body ul li { 378border: none; 379} 380/* Footer 381----------------------------------------------- */ 382.footer-outer { 383color:#cccccc; 384background: transparent url(//www.blogblog.com/1kt/transparent/black50.png) repeat scroll top left; 385-moz-border-radius: 0 0 20px 20px; 386-webkit-border-top-left-radius: 0; 387-webkit-border-top-right-radius: 0; 388-webkit-border-bottom-left-radius: 20px; 389-webkit-border-bottom-right-radius: 20px; 390-goog-ms-border-radius: 0 0 20px 20px; 391border-radius: 0 0 20px 20px; 392-moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, .15); 393-webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, .15); 394-goog-ms-box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, .15); 395box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, .15); 396} 397.footer-inner { 398padding: 10px 20px 20px; 399} 400.footer-outer a { 401color: #98ccee; 402} 403.footer-outer a:visited { 404color: #77aaee; 405} 406.footer-outer a:hover { 407color: #32aaff; 408} 409.footer-outer .widget h2 { 410color: #aaaaaa; 411} 412/* Mobile 413----------------------------------------------- */ 414html body.mobile { 415height: auto; 416} 417html body.mobile { 418min-height: 480px; 419background-size: 100% auto; 420} 421.mobile .body-fauxcolumn-outer { 422background: transparent none repeat scroll top left; 423} 424html .mobile .mobile-date-outer, html .mobile .blog-pager { 425border-bottom: none; 426background: transparent url(//www.blogblog.com/1kt/transparent/white80.png) repeat scroll top left; 427margin-bottom: 10px; 428} 429.mobile .date-outer { 430background: transparent url(//www.blogblog.com/1kt/transparent/white80.png) repeat scroll top left; 431} 432.mobile .header-outer, .mobile .main-outer, 433.mobile .post-outer, .mobile .footer-outer { 434-moz-border-radius: 0; 435-webkit-border-radius: 0; 436-goog-ms-border-radius: 0; 437border-radius: 0; 438} 439.mobile .content-outer, 440.mobile .main-outer, 441.mobile .post-outer { 442background: inherit; 443border: none; 444} 445.mobile .content-outer { 446font-size: 100%; 447} 448.mobile-link-button { 449background-color: #0000ff; 450} 451.mobile-link-button a:link, .mobile-link-button a:visited { 452color: #dddddd; 453} 454.mobile-index-contents { 455color: #2a221a; 456} 457.mobile .tabs-inner .PageList .widget-content {
458background: transparent url(//www.blogblog.com/1kt/transparent/white80.png) repeat scroll bottom; 459color: #336699; 460} 461.mobile .tabs-inner .PageList .widget-content .pagelist-arrow { 462border-left: 1px solid transparent; 463} 464 465--></style> 466<style id='template-skin-1' type='text/css'><!-- 467body { 468min-width: 960px; 469} 470.content-outer, .content-fauxcolumn-outer, .region-inner { 471min-width: 960px; 472max-width: 960px; 473_width: 960px; 474} 475.main-inner .columns { 476padding-left: 0px; 477padding-right: 310px; 478} 479.main-inner .fauxcolumn-center-outer { 480left: 0px; 481right: 310px; 482/* IE6 does not respect left and right together */ 483_width: expression(this.parentNode.offsetWidth - 484parseInt("0px") - 485parseInt("310px") + 'px'); 486} 487.main-inner .fauxcolumn-left-outer { 488width: 0px; 489} 490.main-inner .fauxcolumn-right-outer { 491width: 310px; 492} 493.main-inner .column-left-outer { 494width: 0px; 495right: 100%; 496margin-left: -0px; 497} 498.main-inner .column-right-outer { 499width: 310px; 500margin-right: -310px; 501} 502#layout { 503min-width: 0; 504} 505#layout .content-outer { 506min-width: 0; 507width: 800px; 508} 509#layout .region-inner { 510min-width: 0; 511width: auto; 512} 513body#layout div.add_widget { 514padding: 8px; 515} 516body#layout div.add_widget a { 517margin-left: 32px; 518} 519--></style> 520<style> 521 body {background-image:url(\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-sZoCcF3U69Y\/TsE3VL-HDtI\/AAAAAAAAAf0\/OQXKKGRZUZI\/s0\/swim_start.jpg);} 522 523@media (max-width: 200px) { body {background-image:url(\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-sZoCcF3U69Y\/TsE3VL-HDtI\/AAAAAAAAAf0\/OQXKKGRZUZI\/w200\/swim_start.jpg);}} 524@media (max-width: 400px) and (min-width: 201px) { body {background-image:url(\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-sZoCcF3U69Y\/TsE3VL-HDtI\/AAAAAAAAAf0\/OQXKKGRZUZI\/w400\/swim_start.jpg);}} 525@media (max-width: 800px) and (min-width: 401px) { body {background-image:url(\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-sZoCcF3U69Y\/TsE3VL-HDtI\/AAAAAAAAAf0\/OQXKKGRZUZI\/w800\/swim_start.jpg);}} 526@media (max-width: 1200px) and (min-width: 801px) { body {background-image:url(\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-sZoCcF3U69Y\/TsE3VL-HDtI\/AAAAAAAAAf0\/OQXKKGRZUZI\/w1200\/swim_start.jpg);}} 527/* Last tag covers anything over one higher than the previous max-size cap. */ 528@media (min-width: 1201px) { body {background-image:url(\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-sZoCcF3U69Y\/TsE3VL-HDtI\/AAAAAAAAAf0\/OQXKKGRZUZI\/w1600\/swim_start.jpg);}} 529 </style> 530<link href='https://www.blogger.com/dyncss/6298488371355794080/authorization.css?zx=fb494f57-a539-43ce-9ad5-1484f1bfe549' media='none' onload='if(media!='all')media='all'' rel='stylesheet'/><noscript><link href='https://www.blogger.com/dyncss/6298488371355794080/authorization.css?zx=fb494f57-a539-43ce-9ad5-1484f1bfe549' rel='stylesheet'/></noscript> 531<meta name='google-adsense-platform-account' content='ca-host-pub-1556223355139109'/> 532<meta name='google-adsense-platform-domain' content='blogspot.com'/> 533 534<!-- data-ad-client=ca-pub-5854389354934660 --> 535 536</head> 537<body class='loading'> 538<div class='navbar section' id='navbar' name='Navbar'><div class='widget Navbar' data-version='1' id='Navbar1'>
538<script type="text/javascript"> 539 function setAttributeOnload(object, attribute, val) { 540 if(window.addEventListener) { 541 window.addEventListener('load', 542 function(){ object[attribute] = val; }, false); 543 } else { 544 window.attachEvent('onload', function(){ object[attribute] = val; }); 545 } 546 } 547 </script>
547 548<div id="navbar-iframe-container"></div>
549<script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/platform.js"></script>
vendor: 1 bytes, line 549
549
550<script type="text/javascript"> 551 gapi.load("gapi.iframes:gapi.iframes.style.bubble", function() { 552 if (gapi.iframes && gapi.iframes.getContext) { 553 gapi.iframes.getContext().openChild({ 554 url: 'https://www.blogger.com/navbar/6298488371355794080?origin\x3dhttps://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com', 555 where: document.getElementById("navbar-iframe-container"), 556 id: "navbar-iframe" 557 }); 558 } 559 }); 560 </script>
560<script type="text/javascript"> 561(function() { 562var script = document.createElement('script'); 563script.type = 'text/javascript'; 564script.src = '//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/google_top_exp.js'; 565var head = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0]; 566if (head) { 567head.appendChild(script); 568}})(); 569</script>
569 570</div></div> 571<div itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Blog' style='display: none;'> 572<meta content='Triathletes Journey: A "He said, She said" reporting on races and events' itemprop='name'/> 573</div> 574<div class='body-fauxcolumns'> 575<div class='fauxcolumn-outer body-fauxcolumn-outer'> 576<div class='cap-top'> 577<div class='cap-left'></div> 578<div class='cap-right'></div> 579</div> 580<div class='fauxborder-left'> 581<div class='fauxborder-right'></div> 582<div class='fauxcolumn-inner'> 583</div> 584</div> 585<div class='cap-bottom'> 586<div class='cap-left'></div> 587<div class='cap-right'></div> 588</div> 589</div> 590</div> 591<div class='content'> 592<div class='content-fauxcolumns'> 593<div class='fauxcolumn-outer content-fauxcolumn-outer'> 594<div class='cap-top'> 595<div class='cap-left'></div> 596<div class='cap-right'></div> 597</div> 598<div class='fauxborder-left'> 599<div class='fauxborder-right'></div> 600<div class='fauxcolumn-inner'> 601</div> 602</div> 603<div class='cap-bottom'> 604<div class='cap-left'></div> 605<div class='cap-right'></div> 606</div> 607</div> 608</div> 609<div class='content-outer'> 610<div class='content-cap-top cap-top'> 611<div class='cap-left'></div> 612<div class='cap-right'></div> 613</div> 614<div class='fauxborder-left content-fauxborder-left'> 615<div class='fauxborder-right content-fauxborder-right'></div> 616<div class='content-inner'> 617<header> 618<div class='header-outer'> 619<div class='header-cap-top cap-top'> 620<div class='cap-left'></div> 621<div class='cap-right'></div> 622</div> 623<div class='fauxborder-left header-fauxborder-left'> 624<div class='fauxborder-right header-fauxborder-right'></div> 625<div class='region-inner header-inner'> 626<div class='header section' id='header' name='Header'><div class='widget Header' data-version='1' id='Header1'> 627<div id='header-inner'> 628<div class='titlewrapper'> 629<h1 class='title'> 630Triathletes Journey: A "He said, She said" reporting on races and events 631</h1> 632</div> 633<div class='descriptionwrapper'> 634<p class='description'><span> 635</span></p> 636</div> 637</div> 638</div></div> 639</div> 640</div> 641<div class='header-cap-bottom cap-bottom'> 642<div class='cap-left'></div> 643<div class='cap-right'></div> 644</div> 645</div> 646</header> 647<div class='tabs-outer'> 648<div class='tabs-cap-top cap-top'> 649<div class='cap-left'></div> 650<div class='cap-right'></div> 651</div> 652<div class='fauxborder-left tabs-fauxborder-left'> 653<div class='fauxborder-right tabs-fauxborder-right'></div> 654<div class='region-inner tabs-inner'> 655<div class='tabs no-items section' id='crosscol' name='Cross-Column'></div> 656<div class='tabs no-items section' id='crosscol-overflow' name='Cross-Column 2'></div> 657</div> 658</div> 659<div class='tabs-cap-bottom cap-bottom'> 660<div class='cap-left'></div> 661<div class='cap-right'></div> 662</div> 663</div> 664<div class='main-outer'> 665<div class='main-cap-top cap-top'> 666<div class='cap-left'></div> 667<div class='cap-right'></div> 668</div> 669<div class='fauxborder-left main-fauxborder-left'> 670<div class='fauxborder-right main-fauxborder-right'></div> 671<div class='region-inner main-inner'> 672<div class='columns fauxcolumns'> 673<div class='fauxcolumn-outer fauxcolumn-center-outer'> 674<div class='cap-top'> 675<div class='cap-left'></div> 676<div class='cap-right'></div> 677</div> 678<div class='fauxborder-left'> 679<div class='fauxborder-right'></div> 680<div class='fauxcolumn-inner'> 681</div> 682</div> 683<div class='cap-bottom'> 684<div class='cap-left'></div> 685<div class='cap-right'></div> 686</div> 687</div> 688<div class='fauxcolumn-outer fauxcolumn-left-outer'> 689<div class='cap-top'> 690<div class='cap-left'></div> 691<div class='cap-right'></div> 692</div> 693<div class='fauxborder-left'> 694<div class='fauxborder-right'></div> 695<div class='fauxcolumn-inner'> 696</div> 697</div> 698<div class='cap-bottom'> 699<div class='cap-left'></div> 700<div class='cap-right'></div> 701</div> 702</div> 703<div class='fauxcolumn-outer fauxcolumn-right-outer'> 704<div class='cap-top'> 705<div class='cap-left'></div> 706<div class='cap-right'></div> 707</div> 708<div class='fauxborder-left'> 709<div class='fauxborder-right'></div> 710<div class='fauxcolumn-inner'> 711</div> 712</div> 713<div class='cap-bottom'> 714<div class='cap-left'></div> 715<div class='cap-right'></div> 716</div> 717</div> 718<!-- corrects IE6 width calculation --> 719<div class='columns-inner'> 720<div class='column-center-outer'> 721<div class='column-center-inner'> 722<div class='main section' id='main' name='Main'><div class='widget Blog' data-version='1' id='Blog1'> 723<div class='blog-posts hfeed'> 724 725 <div class="date-outer"> 726 727<h2 class='date-header'><span>Wednesday, July 17, 2019</span></h2> 728 729 <div class="date-posts"> 730 731<div class='post-outer'> 732<div class='post hentry'> 733<a name='827918169406385690'></a> 734<h3 class='post-title entry-title'> 735<a href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2019/07/la-zanja-in-fajardo-pr.html'>La Zanja in Fajardo, PR</a> 736</h3> 737<div class='post-header'> 738<div class='post-header-line-1'></div> 739</div> 740<div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-827918169406385690'> 741<i><b>Elle</b></i>: This morning, somehow, I managed to haul my butt outta bed at 6am for a 6 mile run. Honestly, every Saturday that I get up and out for my morning run I'm proud of myself, no lie. And I'm always a little surprised that I actually did it. But I got it done, and I gave myself some kudos and showered up. <br /> 742<br /> 743As planned, Sabrina picked me up around 10am, and we headed out for our Fajado day trip, east of San Juan. We wound our way into the beachy town and actually found a good parking spot right in front of the beach. Excellente. I had read about this hike, and I knew it was going to be a little challenging. And yeah, it was. Maybe even a little more than a little challenging... <br /> 744<br /> 745If you plan on doing this hike, here are my tips to you.<br />Head to the beach and start walking along the beach to the right. This long stretch of beach is known as Playa La Matita. All along the beach were families camped out for the day. After awhile the throngs of people thinned out, and we kept walking. And walking. And walking. Around a bend, past the sandbar where all the pelicans hangout, through the mangroves. Then, at some point, there was a sign about a nature reserve. We kept walking past the sign onto the rocky portion of the hike. <br /> 746<br /> 747There was some climbing over boulders and rocks, and eventually we got to the tip. There is a path that leads up the hill from the beach. Luckily, at this point, we ran into some people.<br /> 748<br /> 749<br /> 750<i>"Hola. Are we going the right way?"<br />"Yup, just keep going up, not far now!"</i><br /> 751<br /> 752So we kept climbing up to a grassy area. Where to now? We walking along until we saw some more people who pointed us in the right direction. And then we were there. At the trench. Success! But wait... there's more.... how do you actually get into the trench? Yeah, it's tricky. Effing tricky.<br /> 753<br /> 754From the top of the trench, you need to carefully make your way down the rocks, about 30 feet, to the water. There's no clear way of how to scramble down there, you just look, make a decision, and go with it.<br /> 755At the bottom, there is a cave, which is great because it gives you a nice dry and shady spot to keep your stuff. The floor of the cave is rocks, so having water shoes is a good idea.<br /> 756<br /> 757<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> 758<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUWU-YxJA1ZG3Zk5OAHbb1s88hTJgf3MPjlOE953FO_bw7GKNjeKzFoci68862aPtirFKucHgmX7VC
758FBSIuf8fBZCT_T6geTjnDbM1kYcpxizRJtBxh-RbRnPyOVA54qyg4bDNfizxMED8/s1600/20190629_163102.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUWU-YxJA1ZG3Zk5OAHbb1s88hTJgf3MPjlOE953FO_bw7GKNjeKzFoci68862aPtirFKucHgmX7VCFBSIuf8fBZCT_T6geTjnDbM1kYcpxizRJtBxh-RbRnPyOVA54qyg4bDNfizxMED8/s400/20190629_163102.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr> 759<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The trench!</b></td></tr> 760</tbody></table> 761<br /> 762We spent a nice while relaxing in the trench, watching the waves come crashing in and die, then gently roll water into the trench. It was delightful.<br /> 763<br /> 764The walk back.<br /> 765Oy, the walk back was hot, sunny, and sweaty. We stopped to take a break and took a dip in the water, which was super shallow, and uber salty. Ack, the stinging! If you've ever been in the Dead Sea, or any body of water that is more salty than the (general) sea, then you'll know that it's is part cool, because you float like a beach ball, but part pain, because before long, things start to sting. Like, a lot. So we got out of the water and kept walking back towards the beach center. Sweaty and salty. Oh, but of course there were no showers. Arrgghh! I had to use precious water from my water bottle to get as much sweat and salt off as possible.<br /> 766<br /> 767At this point we were pretty hungry. So we drove to the surf town of Luquillo, and via TripAdvisor, I found The Green Cactus, a great little place for lunch. Fantastsic coleslaw!<br /> 768<br /> 769<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> 770<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRqORbfaosgqJ4FDr8C8C3Yv25_UqMCelKcsBGwZn0q3juMEOMZ-aDDs3S4Oq-5HVfp3D0_0ro48AUjbl_sxq6zkYLs7JWgnx-ZzaiibYS86aFXDXe4GxF5cmu9dKhF4CIZxjQYpwfCKn6/s1600/20190629_163140.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1010" data-original-width="1600" height="401" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRqORbfaosgqJ4FDr8C8C3Yv25_UqMCelKcsBGwZn0q3juMEOMZ-aDDs3S4Oq-5HVfp3D0_0ro48AUjbl_sxq6zkYLs7JWgnx-ZzaiibYS86aFXDXe4GxF5cmu9dKhF4CIZxjQYpwfCKn6/s640/20190629_163140.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> 771<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>At the Green Cactus with Sabrina, post-hike</b></td></tr> 772</tbody></table> 773<br /> 774<br /> 775Good day. Good hike. 776<div style='clear: both;'></div> 777</div> 778<div class='post-footer'> 779<div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> 780Posted by 781<span class='fn'> 782<a href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/16471360474487390185' rel='author' title='author profile'> 783Elle and Webb 784</a> 785</span> 786</span> 787<span class='post-timestamp'> 788at 789<a class='timestamp-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2019/07/la-zanja-in-fajardo-pr.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2019-07-17T19:12:00-04:00'>7:12 PM</abbr></a> 790</span> 791<span class='post-comment-link'> 792<a class='comment-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2019/07/la-zanja-in-fajardo-pr.html#comment-form' onclick=''>0 793comments</a> 794</span> 795<span class='post-icons'> 796<span class='item-action'> 797<a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/6298488371355794080/827918169406385690' title='Email Post'> 798<img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> 799</a> 800</span> 801<span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1083025953'> 802<a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6298488371355794080&postID=827918169406385690&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> 803<img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> 804</a> 805</span> 806</span> 807<div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> 808<a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post/6298488371355794080/827918169406385690?https=true&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post/6298488371355794080/827918169406385690?https=true&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post/6298488371355794080/827918169406385690?https=true&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post/6298488371355794080/827918169406385690?https=true&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post/6298488371355794080/827918169406385690?https=true&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to P
808interest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> 809</div> 810</div> 811<div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> 812</span> 813</div> 814<div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'><span class='post-location'> 815</span> 816</div> 817</div> 818</div> 819</div> 820<div class='post-outer'> 821<div class='post hentry'> 822<a name='5497663169900875303'></a> 823<h3 class='post-title entry-title'> 824<a href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2019/07/spelunking-is-arecibo-boating-to-lunch.html'>Spelunking is Arecibo + boating to lunch</a> 825</h3> 826<div class='post-header'> 827<div class='post-header-line-1'></div> 828</div> 829<div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-5497663169900875303'> 830<b>Puerto Rico day trip: <i>Cueva Ventana + Lago dos Bocas</i></b><br /> 831<br /> 832<i><b>Elle</b></i>: <br /> 833Dear Diary,<br /> 834<br /> 835As I continue on my quest to explore the island of Puerto Rico, I planned out a fun day trip to Cueva Ventana in Arecibo, and got my friend Lisa to join me...<br /> 836<br /> 837I started the day by hauling my bum outta bed at 7am for a solid, albeit short, 15-mile solid bike ride on Big Bertha, my trusty road bike. Afterwards, I showered up and prepared for Lisa to pick me up to head out for our exciting day. We wanted to make it to the 10:30am tour for the sake 838of the heat and also crowded-ness And after a short-ish 40 minute drive from our home base of Dorado, we arrived at the spot. There it was, just on the side of the road. We walked over to a hut and signed up for the tour. I got a discount because I had a PR license. Woohoo, glad my Puerto Rican license is really paying off.<br /> 839<br /> 840Lisa and I were instructed to walk up the hill to where 841the tour starts. The forest was uber lush and tropical. Oh, and really effing hot. As we started the tour, the guide told us all about the nature surrounding us. It was a little annoying at first though because they make everyone wear hardhats. I have to say, when you are in the caves, it's not such a crappy idea, really. More than a couple of people hit their head on the 842 low rocks, so the hat wasn't so annoying then. The caves are truly 843spectacular. I felt like I was on the set of the Goonies, I swear. Freaking amazing. And 844when you get to the 'ventana', what a view! I'll go ahead and let the pics do the talking here.<br /> 845<br /> 846<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> 847<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTz0PgizmkBa6XEkGBI8fl_oOb6l_RJPCkCMZP4dWZminfqhPAoRE3Gj5G4WDS3fQkldxnhbno-pOBt8Euf6nzCeqkSBsERt0ZRVUNyVTArmjSf5Gced76aUMubPMYqHZgKosY3Q6O8u_i/s1600/20190623_104457.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTz0PgizmkBa6XEkGBI8fl_oOb6l_RJPCkCMZP4dWZminfqhPAoRE3Gj5G4WDS3fQkldxnhbno-pOBt8Euf6nzCeqkSBsERt0ZRVUNyVTArmjSf5Gced76aUMubPMYqHZgKosY3Q6O8u_i/s320/20190623_104457.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> 848<br /> 849<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> 850<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAOYmBI3lzFSOxIg_12qrbhZ6GMONKCtudyRtM28U_8uk0yMzg1nLYv3HKn3fh8l6Yn990k0L6Dj-KcZUhmpk29Eh8nt20dl8D2uPGogL7x4cn9VfdRQ6UE0-3QKFToiOPmst54fzZUlm6/s1600/20190623_111004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAOYmBI3lzFSOxIg_12qrbhZ6GMONKCtudyRtM28U_8uk0yMzg1nLYv3HKn3fh8l6Yn990k0L6Dj-KcZUhmpk29Eh8nt20dl8D2uPGogL7x4cn9VfdRQ6UE0-3QKFToiOPmst54fzZUlm6/s320/20190623_111004.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> 851<br /> 852<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> 853<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAoHFo0Cu702lzp1OXYya7d6mz7rBR7tIEcoAZQNWt3ikl7PBa0o9IjjLsN3e2wMoNxf8_KoWzugDguJJZK1OZJItGvlDt8FqcsvsZ0erz33HLZaJSr5g5vthjqcEkArGcp-eD0Yxtieud/s1600/20190625_230413.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAoHFo0Cu702lzp1OXYya7d6mz7rBR7tIEcoAZQNWt3ikl7PBa0o9IjjLsN3e2wMoNxf8_KoWzugDguJJZK1OZJItGvlDt8FqcsvsZ0erz33HLZaJSr5g5vthjqcEkArGcp-eD0Yxtieud/s320/20190625_230413.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> 854<br /> 855<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> 856<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ4rlpf9Cb4UAQ_peqED97YfQRRdxCcmkniFwB-8Igc-xTrnZIaFxQMMmpPqXweW0aNgWjBEAc2SLKgXrYASPZhySbOHKvSS75EaREO4SQzvavylxv86wdagMTPyZidUFuK5ErdLM487ms/s1600/20190625_230442.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ4rlpf9Cb4UAQ_peqED97YfQRRdxCcmkniFwB-8Igc-xTrnZIaFxQMMmpPqXweW0aNgWjBEAc2SLKgXrYASPZhySbOHKvSS75EaREO4SQzvavylxv86wdagMTPyZidUFuK5ErdLM487ms/s320/20190625_230442.jpg" width="240" /></a></div> 857<br /> 858<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> 859<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9na0IEF8DBl9EBezZ5rr1yatpEiGRPSf1shscHCoCZzdb7ldg58r9n0G7wqjF2I03PDOCel2QafVntjmmxdRdoLWbxrhRT1Pu8xI93KWpD7mhjB93wTBOX4CH16lhpkDcewXxFp7bM_dQ/s1600/20190625_230542.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1384" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9na0IEF8DBl9EBezZ5rr1yatpEiGRPSf1shscHCoCZzdb7ldg58r9n0G7wqjF2I03PDOCel2QafVntjmmxdRdoLWbxrhRT1Pu8xI93KWpD7mhjB93wTBOX4CH16lhpkDcewXxFp7bM_dQ/s320/20190625_230542.jpg" width="276" /></a></div> 860<br /> 861<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> 862<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX6a-qE9O3idepZ41UK806IR-pWL9IfRxKiTKllTDcQqBDE4bEqw7IXLILB1lSfwlWCjDP4CSmzFM2KKOphfGzA5SOCEvVkNc_OlchiF5dO5kXfZ-TdGatRhQLtkRnaLQBjX2FKnUw5QfX/s1600/20190625_230824.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX6a-qE9O3idepZ41UK806IR-pWL9IfRxKiTKllTDcQqBDE4bEqw7IXLILB1lSfwlWCjDP4CSmzFM2KKOphfGzA5SOCEvVkNc_OlchiF5dO5kXfZ-TdGatRhQLtkRnaLQBjX2FKnUw5QfX/s320/20190625_230824.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> 863<br /> 864<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> 865<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSHUXmbQ3X-giYjVovTiAIXxZZzFN1pr6r-xkZKTVYwtcAJuibje-Y0HTFFXITrmm1gpPem3_3Nc1OxU3pOyj5uYS6_6HFDvok8Nth4TeL7HjMG3CDhXK5B5LHPf66iko
865DFVS7Vv4hORCf/s1600/20190625_231055.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1449" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSHUXmbQ3X-giYjVovTiAIXxZZzFN1pr6r-xkZKTVYwtcAJuibje-Y0HTFFXITrmm1gpPem3_3Nc1OxU3pOyj5uYS6_6HFDvok8Nth4TeL7HjMG3CDhXK5B5LHPf66ikoDFVS7Vv4hORCf/s320/20190625_231055.jpg" width="289" /></a></div> 866<br /> 867<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> 868<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjDYdZCoRBBu_G5Yc6v40XCZ4KbKGJY6636nPc3gi1mhagZatKc_10m4RljOZYqZPUKk6tLU-94IGDjZiUkdsxcUKTPZUwjWVaSa-dFMy988mBCG92rYw25n3EnJ5gcjtSOiFraZ0aSphF/s1600/IMG_20190629_223703_577.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjDYdZCoRBBu_G5Yc6v40XCZ4KbKGJY6636nPc3gi1mhagZatKc_10m4RljOZYqZPUKk6tLU-94IGDjZiUkdsxcUKTPZUwjWVaSa-dFMy988mBCG92rYw25n3EnJ5gcjtSOiFraZ0aSphF/s320/IMG_20190629_223703_577.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> 869<br /> 870<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> 871<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCPiLUevV60027Q8gl3oiypeTJgZIHtIM0D0jpRMli8sLZKWNme6Qk-AwxzDBXw4Hy1xMAnBuHNoq8Fb_KpWofm1TTreiLD59lxAcC8AjD8EVe1cqtGOa1-ce7ShG6rDk1NeZvqCdnHMT2/s1600/IMG_20190629_223703_580.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCPiLUevV60027Q8gl3oiypeTJgZIHtIM0D0jpRMli8sLZKWNme6Qk-AwxzDBXw4Hy1xMAnBuHNoq8Fb_KpWofm1TTreiLD59lxAcC8AjD8EVe1cqtGOa1-ce7ShG6rDk1NeZvqCdnHMT2/s320/IMG_20190629_223703_580.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> 872<br /> 873<br /> 874The Cueva Ventana excursion was fantastic, interesting, stunning, and a little challenging at times. And by the time we were done and handing in our hard hats, we had built up a bit of an appetite.<br /> 875So, as I'm known to do, I had researched the heck outta this trip, and I knew that we could drive ~10 minutes and arrive at Lago Dos Bocas for a lake-side lunch. Which of course we did. There is a parking area where you can park and wait for the 'boat man' to arrive, which he did, after a time, and then he ferried us (and some other folks) to the restaurant, Paisaje Escondido. We all climbed out of the boat, up the (steep!) stairs, and got a table at the open air restaurant. Great menu, view, service and food. Lisa and I had a spectacular time.<br /> 876<br /> 877<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> 878<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-0-Mgtx61324unGelMrYJISUoylbaQ6T-69Mt8-EWxs57ny2mmBPLt9DhnNLxEqYsZAkGoGKCOLvL_RkAi0mU20lqkCil9R38eSZKr1wB0_6alphd0xdXQZa48p2JGEGJcZfksxUb7aFW/s1600/20190623_131442.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-0-Mgtx61324unGelMrYJISUoylbaQ6T-69Mt8-EWxs57ny2mmBPLt9DhnNLxEqYsZAkGoGKCOLvL_RkAi0mU20lqkCil9R38eSZKr1wB0_6alphd0xdXQZa48p2JGEGJcZfksxUb7aFW/s320/20190623_131442.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> 879I did a write up on TripAdvisor for the <a href="https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g1383492-d2335360-r685554824-Aventura_Cueva_Ventana-Arecibo_Puerto_Rico.html" target="_blank">hike</a> and the <a href="https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g1236992-d1553109-r685556841-Paisaje_Escondido-Utuado_Puerto_Rico.html" target="_blank">lunch</a>, just as a reference.<br /> 880<br /> 881<i><b>Webb</b></i>: Did they have Rocky Road ice cream?<br /> 882<br /> 883<i><b>Elle</b></i>: What is wrong with you? Yeah, I get your '<i>Goonies</i>' reference. Weirdo. 884<div style='clear: both;'></div> 885</div> 886<div class='post-footer'> 887<div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> 888Posted by 889<span class='fn'> 890<a href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/16471360474487390185' rel='author' title='author profile'> 891Elle and Webb 892</a> 893</span> 894</span> 895<span class='post-timestamp'> 896at 897<a class='timestamp-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2019/07/spelunking-is-arecibo-boating-to-lunch.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2019-07-17T18:15:00-04:00'>6:15 PM</abbr></a> 898</span> 899<span class='post-comment-link'> 900<a class='comment-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2019/07/spelunking-is-arecibo-boating-to-lunch.html#comment-form' onclick=''>0 901comments</a> 902</span> 903<span class='post-icons'> 904<span class='item-action'> 905<a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/6298488371355794080/5497663169900875303' title='Email Post'> 906<img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> 907</a> 908</span> 909<span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1083025953'> 910<a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6298488371355794080&postID=5497663169900875303&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> 911<img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> 912</a> 913</span> 914</span> 915<div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> 916<a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post/6298488371355794080/5497663169900875303?https=true&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post/6298488371355794080/5497663169900875303?https=true&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post/6298488371355794080/5497663169900875303?https=true&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post/6298488371355794080/5497663169900875303?https=true&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post/6298488371355794080/5497663169900875303?https=true&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to P
916interest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> 917</div> 918</div> 919<div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> 920</span> 921</div> 922<div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'><span class='post-location'> 923</span> 924</div> 925</div> 926</div> 927</div> 928 929 </div></div> 930 931 932 <div class="date-outer"> 933 934<h2 class='date-header'><span>Monday, June 24, 2019</span></h2> 935 936 <div class="date-posts"> 937 938<div class='post-outer'> 939<div class='post hentry'> 940<a name='3139526253324511063'></a> 941<h3 class='post-title entry-title'> 942<a href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2019/06/sunday-funday-kinda.html'>Sunday Funday! kinda…</a> 943</h3> 944<div class='post-header'> 945<div class='post-header-line-1'></div> 946</div> 947<div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-3139526253324511063'> 948<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Elle</b></i>: Dear Diary,</span></span><br /> 949<div style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> 950<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> 951<div style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> 952<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sunday in Dorado is the day they shut down a section of road to cars, so runners and cyclists take to the road for a car-less workout along a stretch of road with a nature preserve on one side and the ocean on the other. Not too shabby.</span></div> 953<div style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> 954<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> 955<div style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> 956<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I’m used to getting up with Webb and going out together for our rides. Being alone and having the discipline to get up at 6am and out of the apartment and proceed to cycle on my own takes a bit of mind strength for me. Most mornings my mind and body say, ‘No, I don’t wanna goooooo.’ But then I think, consistency is the key to gaining fitness success. And of course it’s hard. If it wasn’t then everyone would do it, right?!? So I drag my body out of bed and get to it.</span></div> 957<div style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> 958<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> 959<div style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> 960<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>Webb</i></b>: Oh yes, consistency is consistently the most important aspect to long term success. </span></div> 961<div style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> 962<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div> 963<div style="color: black; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> 964<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">THE RIDE</span></b><br /> 965</div> 966<div style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> 967<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i><b>Elle</b></i>: Since my light + lovely Argon tri bike is in the shop, I’ve been riding Big Bertha, my heavier road/commuter bike. Honestly, It’s work to haul that thing around. Plus it doesn’t have shoe clips, so I’m losing power in the back half of my pedal stroke. Every stroke. So it’s truly a challenge. </span></div> 968<div style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> 969<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div> 970<div style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> 971<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">HOWEVER, today I actually passed a couple of people... Yeehaw! I mean, yeah, they were going pretty slow, but hey, I’m calling it a win.</span></div> 972<div style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> 973<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div> 974<div style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> 975<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">On my rides my mind wanders. Here are some of the thoughts that swirl around:</span></div> 976<div style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> 977<ul class="Apple-dash-list"> 978<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Look at all the guys (and gals) in full on kits. There are a lot of serious cyclists around here.</span></li> 979<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I am so thirsty. Doh, I forgot my water bottle! Sooooo thirsty. Make a note for next time, DON’T FORGET A WATER BOTTLE.</span></li> 980<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I have a run after this (doing a transition run to train for triathlons), oy, that’s going to hurt. Stop thinking about the run! You’re on the bike, think about the bike!</span></li> 981</ul> 982<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now there are lots of big groups of riders out here every Sunday, but something AMAZING happened today - there was a super big peloton of ladies wearing pink. They came up on me and I got swept up in their peloton. Whether I wanted to, or not, I was in the peloton now! It was incredible! I could feel the physics of the peloton pull me along. Some of the cyclists going the other direction would yell out words of encouragement to the group, and everyone would cheer and yell. I think it was a breast cancer support group. Anyway, it was freaking great. This is what I get out of bed for!</span> 983 984</span></div> 985<div> 986<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div> 987<div> 988<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>Webb</i></b>: Dear Elle's Diary, Her cycling has really improved. Could you let her know? </span><br /> 989<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span> 990<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i><b>Elle</b></i>: One thing about this ride is that, at the end, about 1.5 miles from the end, there is a killer of a hill. I mean super steep. Short, but steep as a mother. And every time I approach, I get a little nervous. And a little excited. But I am determined to attack and beat the hill. I was tired and still determined to win hill today. Ok, here we go......push, push, push. You. Can. Do. This.</span><br /> 991<br /> 992<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">PUSH!</span><br /> 993<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">PUSH!</span><br /> 994<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">PUSH!</span><br /> 995<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">
995 </span><br /> 996<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">.....yassss! Made it the top! </span><br /> 997<br /> 998<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Elle: 1 // hill: 0 </span></div> 999<div> 1000<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div> 1001<div> 1002<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I was done with my 25-mile ride, and it was time for a run. Ugh, I sooooo don’t want to run. But then I said to myself, ‘You can do this! Rock this run!’. More thoughts:</span></div> 1003<div> 1004<ul class="Apple-dash-list"> 1005<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This is hard. This is hard. Stop thinking about how hard it is. This is easy! (not really)</span></li> 1006</ul> 1007<ul class="Apple-dash-list"> 1008<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Damn, I’m running a 10 minute mile. Stop! Stop the stinking thinkin’! You’re a beast!! You're a champ for even getting out here today!</span></li> 1009</ul> 1010<ul class="Apple-dash-list"> 1011<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">You are strong! You can do this! Picture that podium on race day and know you're going to finish strong because you got up on these hard days and got it done!</span></li> 1012</ul> 1013<ul class="Apple-dash-list"> 1014<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This will be over at some point, just push through!</span></li> 1015</ul> 1016<ul class="Apple-dash-list"> 1017<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Strong. Strong. Push. Push.</span></li> 1018</ul> 1019<ul class="Apple-dash-list"> 1020<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I DID IT! Now lets go jump in the pool</span></li> 1021</ul> 1022<div> 1023<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div> 1024<div> 1025<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">So glad I got out of bed this morning. Good job self!</span><br /> 1026<br /> 1027<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> 1028<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHknlubKZbgXwbBrxrNLoFhetvADojc0RRR_lXsqBqDtLshP4mutbTY73VKJXKZfhMp04lnCvIgBVIMoDvZiS2mvq_SHNBqE9sx34_mUBfsOzEBQP-jmnAhHRv8el9SuqPYsRUU92faDHW/s1600/pool.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1080" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHknlubKZbgXwbBrxrNLoFhetvADojc0RRR_lXsqBqDtLshP4mutbTY73VKJXKZfhMp04lnCvIgBVIMoDvZiS2mvq_SHNBqE9sx34_mUBfsOzEBQP-jmnAhHRv8el9SuqPYsRUU92faDHW/s320/pool.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> 1029</div> 1030</div> 1031<div style='clear: both;'></div> 1032</div> 1033<div class='post-footer'> 1034<div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> 1035Posted by 1036<span class='fn'> 1037<a href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/16471360474487390185' rel='author' title='author profile'> 1038Elle and Webb 1039</a> 1040</span> 1041</span> 1042<span class='post-timestamp'> 1043at 1044<a class='timestamp-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2019/06/sunday-funday-kinda.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2019-06-24T20:13:00-04:00'>8:13 PM</abbr></a> 1045</span> 1046<span class='post-comment-link'> 1047<a class='comment-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2019/06/sunday-funday-kinda.html#comment-form' onclick=''>0 1048comments</a> 1049</span> 1050<span class='post-icons'> 1051<span class='item-action'> 1052<a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/6298488371355794080/3139526253324511063' title='Email Post'> 1053<img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> 1054</a> 1055</span> 1056<span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1083025953'> 1057<a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6298488371355794080&postID=3139526253324511063&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> 1058<img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> 1059</a> 1060</span> 1061</span> 1062<div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> 1063<a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post/6298488371355794080/3139526253324511063?https=true&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post/6298488371355794080/3139526253324511063?https=true&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post/6298488371355794080/3139526253324511063?https=true&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post/6298488371355794080/3139526253324511063?https=true&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post/6298488371355794080/3139526253324511063?https=true&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to P
1063interest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> 1064</div> 1065</div> 1066<div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> 1067</span> 1068</div> 1069<div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'><span class='post-location'> 1070</span> 1071</div> 1072</div> 1073</div> 1074</div> 1075<div class='post-outer'> 1076<div class='post hentry'> 1077<a name='7416175426951839013'></a> 1078<h3 class='post-title entry-title'> 1079<a href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2019/06/susan-g-komen-race-for-cure-5k.html'>Susan G. Komen - Race for the Cure 5K</a> 1080</h3> 1081<div class='post-header'> 1082<div class='post-header-line-1'></div> 1083</div> 1084<div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-7416175426951839013'> 1085<i><b>Elle</b></i>: So I signed up for my second race in Puerto Rico, The Susan G. Komen 5K Race for the Cure. And although it was another race without Webb (*tear*), this time I wasn't alone; my co-worker Ashley agreed to race with me. Woohoo!<br /> 1086<br /> 1087And as it often happens, before I knew it, race weekend was upon us. I planned to get a ride into San Juan for packet pick-up with my good friend Bridget.<br /> 1088<br /> 1089First of all, I didn't even know when or where packet pick up was. Usually races send you emails about this sort of thing, and at least have info on the race site. Oh no, not this race. The only way I was able to find out how to get the race packet was through Ashley. She said the reason I probably didn't have all the info I needed was because the race site was all in Spanish. Yup, that was a problem. So she told me it was at the Plaza las Americas, just outside of San Juan, and give me all the details. OK, cool. <br /> 1090<br /> 1091Now neither Bridget nor I had ever been to the Plaza las Americas, but we'd both heard A LOT about it. People rave about it. Neither of us are 'mall people', but we were interested in checking it out. So here's the story: IT'S HUGE. HUGE! There's a supermarket in the mall! So many restaurants! Pretty much anything you could ever want. And in one area there was a large group gathered, about 90 people. They were playing Bingo!<br /> 1092<br /> 1093<b><i>Webb</i></b>: Who has seen <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077402/?ref_=nv_sr_3?ref_=nv_sr_3" target="_blank">"Dawn of the Dead"</a>? (Don't even try with 2004 - Romero 1978.)<br /> 1094<br /> 1095<b><i>Elle</i></b>: Ok, so I don't know what Webb is talking about. Moving on....<br /> 1096<br /> 1097We headed to the place in the mall where the packet pick-up was located. There were over 1,000 people signed up for this race, so we knew it might be crowded. We got there, and stood in line. And get this. Without ANY planning or coordination AT ALL... who is directly in front of us in line? <b>Ashley</b>! What are the freaking odds!?!?!?!? This bit of serendipity gave me a good feeling.<br /> 1098<br /> 1099<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> 1100<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFG_qUVx6tdbpLVm-uAgKl_l9S64hBg-nv_OYtuSCObKx2PXfIeejf0ZO9i38MHJv1wLqUdKN2vDJQCWokq-SynrEsGssyFREA1TmjNbNq1Kc1V-Kzd7g7REiAChaYbEngbEreCayjIY02/s1600/FullSizeR1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="398" data-original-width="335" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFG_qUVx6tdbpLVm-uAgKl_l9S64hBg-nv_OYtuSCObKx2PXfIeejf0ZO9i38MHJv1wLqUdKN2vDJQCWokq-SynrEsGssyFREA1TmjNbNq1Kc1V-Kzd7g7REiAChaYbEngbEreCayjIY02/s320/FullSizeR1.jpg" width="269" /></a></td></tr> 1101<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ashley and me at packet pick-up</td></tr> 1102</tbody></table> 1103When I got home I explored my race packet. Wait. A. Minute. The race starts at 5pm? Is that true? Sooooo weird! Ok, well at least I'll have a lot of time to get ready tomorrow morning!<br /> 1104<br /> 1105<b><i>Webb</i></b>: Race Start Times:<br /> 1106Puerto Rico 1 - New England 0<br /> 1107<br /> 1108<b>RACE DAY</b><br /> 1109<i><b>Elle</b></i>: Having all time in the world to get up, get ready, and putz around was kind of nice. I called an Uber and got to the race site with lots of time so spare. Which was a good thing, because there was a decent race expo with lots of tents and a good amount of swag. Eventually Ashley showed up, and we got ready to race.<br /> 1110<br /> 1111A little bit about me and my racing experience: Before moving to Puerto Rico, I'd never raced alone before. It's always been me and Webb or me and friends, but never alone. And not having Webb by my side at any race is kinda sad for me, since we've always raced together. But thankfully Ashley was there, and we walked around and got ready to race. <br /> 1112<br /> 1113<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> 1114<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBUIQ9jsLmquUC9JRrrrZxuxZJt2aRo-vhekiv80YkEsQqq45090IA0CshSeR4gRKjonV3XK_-4EogyvyCT-wTzTn2kKvvTo_kklDvEUG8D4FB-m1bBc9PENUWz4tgAIc4L_5DzPFXcvkw/s1600/IMG9537191002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="361" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBUIQ9jsLmquUC9JRrrrZxuxZJt2aRo-vhekiv80YkEsQqq45090IA0CshSeR4gRKjonV3XK_-4EogyvyCT-wTzTn2kKvvTo_kklDvEUG8D4FB-m1bBc9PENUWz4tgAIc4L_5DzPFXcvkw/s320/IMG9537191002.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr> 1115<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pre-race with Ashley</td></tr> 1116</tbody></table> 1117<br /> 1118<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> 1119<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ2Fs_5tHLcooUPG8OaYaQgH_Dk-djovBTOGxgvEcs4RohtKALkykVGTu90UbNIERsVYOKN9I8TEo5t4aq0tuxwxyqdIr82_TLNI-fOomHPJaU3jJQQfrvvvovwa3WrGNSYZx9lHBRvJq7/s1600/IMG9537261002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="360" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ2Fs_5tHLcooUPG8OaYaQgH_Dk-djovBTOGxgvEcs4RohtKALkykVGTu90UbNIERsVYOKN9I8TEo5t4aq0tuxwxyqdIr82_TLNI-fOomHPJaU3jJQQfrvvvovwa3WrGNSYZx9lHBRvJq7/s320/IMG9537261002.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr> 1120<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fun things at the race expo</td></tr> 1121</tbody></table>
1122Ashley was planning to run a 10 minute mile, and then she told me... This was her first 5K! I felt so honored to be there for her first race! I gave her some tips, and told her I'd meet her at the end. And then I moved up close to the front of the pack.<br /> 1123<br /> 1124Self talk: <i><b>"Just do your best. It's great that your even out here. Run your own race. Enjoy the experience. No matter what, it's all good."</b></i><br /> 1125<br /> 1126Ok, ok. Here we go. And then the gun sounded, and we were off. I hadn't reviewed the course (bad runner!), but I figured I could just follow the pack. Everyone around me started off too fast. Myself included. I looked down at my watch, oh shite, I'm running a sub-7-minute mile. Woah Nelly!!! Slow it down, partner! Just calm it down, you'll thank yourself later...<br /> 1127<br /> 1128Early on, I spotted a man in a red shirt who seemed to be running around my pace. So I stuck with him for awhile. Then, as often happens, we kept passing each other back and forth. Yeehaw, a race partner! I always enjoy having a race partner, a stranger who's with you for a bulk of the race. Good for pacing, and also pushing yourself that extra bit.<br /> 1129<br /> 1130After awhile, things started to get harder. As it should.<br /> 1131<br /> 1132<i><b>"You can do this. The pain is temporary. Winning is forever. You've got this. It's not a long race, it's a 5K! Go! Go! Go! The finish line will arrive sooner than you think! Leave it all out on the course!"</b></i><br /> 1133<br /> 1134Back and forth, back and forth with my race buddy. Until the last 1/4 mile or so when I dug deep and kicked it up. Then I didn't see him again. And I finished strong.<br /> 1135<br /> 1136Now, some strange things about this race:<br /> 1137<br /> 1138- No email about packet pick-up or anything, really<br /> 1139- No bag check (WTF?)<br /> 1140- The 'Finish' arch was not at the finish line! The finish line was BEFORE the arch. Way before. So THAT was confusing!<br /> 1141- The finishing chute for this 5K was almost as long as the frickin' Boston Marathon! It went on for at least a 1/4 of a mile.<br /> 1142- Near the end of the finishing chute, just before you get your finishing medal, there is a HUGE bell that you can ring. What? But of course I'm ringing it. That was pretty cool, actually. Now I want that at the end of every race I do....<br /> 1143<br /> 1144I circled back to the finish line to cheer Ashley in. I was so excited for her. And there she was, running in for her first official 5K. WELL DONE MY FRIEND!<br /> 1145<br /> 1146We chatted a bit afterwards, and then she had to head home. I stayed behind, thinking I may have placed. So I waited. And waited. And waited. Until I figured out THERE'S NO AWARDS CEREMONY. WTF? Ugh, fine, I'll get an Uber home.<br /> 1147<br /> 1148So there I was, in the Uber, heading home. Hungry. Tired. A little confused. I remembered that on one of the race info sheets it said that results would be posted on AllSports.com<br /> 1149So I decide to check it out to see if the results were up (AllSports is known for their speedy postings). Lo and behold, the results were there! There were no age groupings, just all men and all women. That's fine, I'm sure I'll be able to find my name on the women's list. I started scanning the list....<br /> 1150<br /> 1151YARRRRRRRRR!!!<br /> 11523RD OVERALL WOMAN!!!!!<br /> 1153<br /> 1154I yelped, and pretty sure that I scared the crap out of the Uber driver. That's fine. I'll take my third place and go home.<br /> 1155<br /> 1156<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> 1157<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYR7eydpyMFwTMQ8kRiopFjLGt4Fn2qcqYcIwr9TPN8pKOUrPxMCkUMxx5D4c_wh-EMqoTi9wlVAzfCIH-TZ-XUsSE-Pc-nnEWmAunoegY1e-6fv6yNVsOsLYgx-QzRbtcygWz-K07xfXX/s1600/20190414_174037.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYR7eydpyMFwTMQ8kRiopFjLGt4Fn2qcqYcIwr9TPN8pKOUrPxMCkUMxx5D4c_wh-EMqoTi9wlVAzfCIH-TZ-XUsSE-Pc-nnEWmAunoegY1e-6fv6yNVsOsLYgx-QzRbtcygWz-K07xfXX/s320/20190414_174037.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr> 1158<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Second race in PR, second time placing :)</td></tr> 1159</tbody></table> 1160<br /> 1161<br /> 1162<div style='clear: both;'></div> 1163</div> 1164<div class='post-footer'> 1165<div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> 1166Posted by 1167<span class='fn'> 1168<a href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/16471360474487390185' rel='author' title='author profile'> 1169Elle and Webb 1170</a> 1171</span> 1172</span> 1173<span class='post-timestamp'> 1174at 1175<a class='timestamp-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2019/06/susan-g-komen-race-for-cure-5k.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2019-06-24T20:03:00-04:00'>8:03 PM</abbr></a> 1176</span> 1177<span class='post-comment-link'> 1178<a class='comment-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2019/06/susan-g-komen-race-for-cure-5k.html#comment-form' onclick=''>0 1179comments</a> 1180</span> 1181<span class='post-icons'> 1182<span class='item-action'> 1183<a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/6298488371355794080/7416175426951839013' title='Email Post'> 1184<img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> 1185</a> 1186</span> 1187<span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1083025953'> 1188<a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6298488371355794080&postID=7416175426951839013&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> 1189<img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> 1190</a> 1191</span> 1192</span> 1193<div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> 1194<a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post/6298488371355794080/7416175426951839013?https=true&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post/6298488371355794080/7416175426951839013?https=true&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post/6298488371355794080/7416175426951839013?https=true&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post/6298488371355794080/7416175426951839013?https=true&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post/6298488371355794080/7416175426951839013?https=true&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to P
1194interest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> 1195</div> 1196</div> 1197<div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> 1198</span> 1199</div> 1200<div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'><span class='post-location'> 1201</span> 1202</div> 1203</div> 1204</div> 1205</div> 1206 1207 </div></div> 1208 1209 1210 <div class="date-outer"> 1211 1212<h2 class='date-header'><span>Saturday, April 6, 2019</span></h2> 1213 1214 <div class="date-posts"> 1215 1216<div class='post-outer'> 1217<div class='post hentry'> 1218<a name='2509215614725348152'></a> 1219<h3 class='post-title entry-title'> 1220<a href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2019/04/a-visit-to-puerto-rican-dmv-oh-yeah.html'>A visit to the Puerto Rican DMV. Oh yeah....</a> 1221</h3> 1222<div class='post-header'> 1223<div class='post-header-line-1'></div> 1224</div> 1225<div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-2509215614725348152'> 1226<i>(Disclaimer: A bit different than the posts of the past, I'm using this blog to not only document training and racing, but also as a kind of diary of my time in Puerto Rico. So if you don't want to read a long story about the Puerto Rican DMV, you might want to skip this one.) </i><b><br /></b><br /> 1227<br /> 1228<b>Elle</b>: After much searching and some anguish, I bought a car in January. Halleluja! No more biking everywhere I need to go. Not that I didn't mind it too much. And it was a nice boost to my fitness. But being able to go further than 5 miles from my apartment and being able to purchase more items than I can fit into my backpack is a 'nice to have'. I think I mentioned my new (used) car in an earlier post, but just a reminder:<br /> 1229<br /> 1230<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> 1231<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgThMIEJAFVy9MRYFOgap83mplVQJrwEC0S-cznxA16gqG7eBLj_Kw-UoX85qB2m1wSMPOLlulxdVVMrxBHVqlJzuHQs6MCMzocKjb9YyDsy6VBUzQZwI5jwKQwLZKKuY0-U1uY-O8EDoth/s1600/MyCar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgThMIEJAFVy9MRYFOgap83mplVQJrwEC0S-cznxA16gqG7eBLj_Kw-UoX85qB2m1wSMPOLlulxdVVMrxBHVqlJzuHQs6MCMzocKjb9YyDsy6VBUzQZwI5jwKQwLZKKuY0-U1uY-O8EDoth/s320/MyCar.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> 1232<br /> 1233Sooooo, in Puerto Rico, you need to have something called a 'marbete'. And it needs to be renewed once a year. And apparently if you get stopped with an expired marbete, you can rack up a fine/fee of $700 (<a href="http://www.lifetransplanet.com/2018/02/26/never-let-your-marbete-expire/" target="_blank">here's a story</a> of a sad soul here who got caught with an expired marbete). Now, my marbete expires in May. But being the newly motivated gal I've become, I wanted to get on it early. So I looked up the process of renewing this thing. Holy carrots, what a pain in the arse.<br /> 1234<br /> 1235<u><b>Step 1</b></u><br /> 1236You need to get your new vehicle license/renewal notice. The Puerto Rico Department of Motor Vehicles should send renewal notices every year by mail; they seldom do. But there's a site you can go to and you can get the notice there. You print that out and then...<br /> 1237<br /> 1238<u><b>Step 2</b></u><br /> 1239You take your vehicle along with all copies of the renewal notice to an inspection center at an authorized gas station. They will provide you with an inspection certificate for $11.00. <br /> 1240<br /> 1241<u><b>Step 3</b></u><br /> 1242You may purchase your marbete sticker at the Inspection Center or any bank that has them in stock. I looked this up, but it's a little confusing as to which banks you can go to. Again, you must provide Insurance Vouchers to avoid the compulsory liability insurance charge of $99.00. You will pay $40.00 for annual rights, $35.00 for driver’s insurance (ACCA), $10.00 renewal fee. If you do not provide Insurance Vouchers, you will be forced to pay the $99.00 fee and choose from government insurance providers.<br /> 1243<br /> 1244Oy! I thought, "Well, I'll start the process and get this 'vehicle renewal notice', that way I'll be ahead of the game." So I went online and filled out the info. The last page opened up and I was able to roughly translate the Spanish enough to know that it said that there was no car available for renewal under my name/license, etc.<br /> 1245<br /> 1246<b>FARK</b>!<br /> 1247<br /> 1248After asking around, I was told by several people I had to go the Puerto Rican equivalent of the DMV. And when they said it, a look always come over their face. Not a good look. But a sa
1248d, condolences look. I was told to get there EARLY. One thing I've learned about Puerto Rico is that when you need to go to any government office, you've got to be prepared to wait A LONG TIME. Cool, I can get there early.<br /> 1249<br /> 1250I was on the road by 7am. Yeah, things are going well. But since my phone decided to not do the whole navigation thing (don't know why that stopped working), I had to write down the directions and do my best to memorize where I needed to go. (If you're itching to read more about days gone sideways, I put pen to paper - or fingers to key, the <a href="http://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2019/03/mama-said-said-there-be-days-like-this.html" target="_blank">details of this day</a>).<br /><b></b><br /> 1251<br /> 1252<i><b>Issue 1</b></i>: Somehow I forgot about traffic heading into San Juan weekday mornings. Oy! At one point I tried to count how many lanes of traffic were merging, and I stopped at 10. But I stayed strong and drove with confidence. Then a small miracle occurred, I actually got off at the right exit (a BIG feat if you've ever driven in Puerto Rico where a lot of exits don't even have a sign).<br /> 1253<br /> 1254One more exit, then my destination would be on my left. Coolio. I was able to find it and get off, woohoo, things are happening for me now!. I figured it would be an obvious building, and my directions said it was a bout 3km on the left, so I drove. And drove. And drove too far. Frick. I missed it! I checked out Google maps and saw I had overshot it, so I found some landmarks on the map, and turned around. Well, this isn't the first time I used landmarks on Google maps to find my way, and got lost. Here's a tip:<br /> 1255<br /> 1256<i><b>If you're driving in Puerto Rico, and you use Google Maps and rely on stores/businesses/etc. aka things on the map for landmarks, DON'T. Most of them just aren't there. </b></i><br /> 1257And today was no different. The landmarks weren't there. And I missed it AGAIN! Arghgh! So I turned around <b><i>again</i></b>, and, with an eagle eye, drove slowly until I finally found it. Yass.<br /> 1258<br /> 1259I walked in, and there were hundreds of people there. I didn't know where to go or what to do (all the signs were in Spanish). So I got into the long, main line. And I came prepared. I had my Kindle with me, loaded with <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/review-do-your-om-thing_b_6782988" target="_blank">'Do your OM thing'</a>, a wonderful book by Rebecca Pacheco, a master yogi and an incredible person. So as I was standing in the line of hell, I was reading about the way of the yogis, peace and acceptance. I felt confident that I was the most zen person in that line. Finally, 45 minutes later, I got to the front - yay, it was my turn! I went up to the window, and despite a rough time with the language barrier, the man behind the counter explained to me that I was in the wrong line, and pointed to another line that I was supposed to be in. Breathe. Breathe. Yoga. Zen.<br /> 1260<br /> 1261Well, the line I got into next was much shorter than the original line that I accidentally queued up in. And in 20 short minutes, I was at the front. My turn! So after some some more time trying to bridge the language barrier, I basically found out that they couldn't help me, and that I'd have to come back in May. Oy. Breathe. Breathe. Yoga. Zen.<br /> 1262<br /> 1263Back in the car to head home. Oy, what a day. OH, and then the 'Check engine' light came on. Frick! And to make a long story short, on my adventure getting home, I took my first wrong turn. Oy. Then wrong turn #2. Ack. Then finally got safely on Route 22 and sailed on home. And by the time I got home, I saw that it was only 10:30am! How is that possible? Anyway, I'll take that as a win.<br /> 1264<br /> 1265And that was my day at the Puerto Rican DMV. See you again in May!<br /> 1266<br /> 1267<div style='clear: both;'></div> 1268</div> 1269<div class='post-footer'> 1270<div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> 1271Posted by 1272<span class='fn'> 1273<a href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/16471360474487390185' rel='author' title='author profile'> 1274Elle and Webb 1275</a> 1276</span> 1277</span> 1278<span class='post-timestamp'> 1279at 1280<a class='timestamp-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2019/04/a-visit-to-puerto-rican-dmv-oh-yeah.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2019-04-06T21:23:00-04:00'>9:23 PM</abbr></a> 1281</span> 1282<span class='post-comment-link'> 1283<a class='comment-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2019/04/a-visit-to-puerto-rican-dmv-oh-yeah.html#comment-form' onclick=''>0 1284comments</a> 1285</span> 1286<span class='post-icons'> 1287<span class='item-action'> 1288<a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/6298488371355794080/2509215614725348152' title='Email Post'> 1289<img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> 1290</a> 1291</span> 1292<span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1083025953'> 1293<a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6298488371355794080&postID=2509215614725348152&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> 1294<img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> 1295</a> 1296</span> 1297</span> 1298<div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> 1299<a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post/6298488371355794080/2509215614725348152?https=true&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post/6298488371355794080/2509215614725348152?https=true&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post/6298488371355794080/2509215614725348152?https=true&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post/6298488371355794080/2509215614725348152?https=true&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post/6298488371355794080/2509215614725348152?https=true&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to P
1299interest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> 1300</div> 1301</div> 1302<div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> 1303</span> 1304</div> 1305<div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'><span class='post-location'> 1306</span> 1307</div> 1308</div> 1309</div> 1310</div> 1311<div class='post-outer'> 1312<div class='post hentry'> 1313<a name='4299592559011428945'></a> 1314<h3 class='post-title entry-title'> 1315<a href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2019/04/hills-glorious-hills.html'>Hills, Glorious Hills</a> 1316</h3> 1317<div class='post-header'> 1318<div class='post-header-line-1'></div> 1319</div> 1320<div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-4299592559011428945'> 1321<b>Elle</b>: When you want to get fast as hell and beat the competition at your choice triathlon, I've found (for me at least) that there are 3 essential run workouts necessary for each week:<br /> 1322<br /> 1323<i><b>1. Speed work (on the track or elsewhere)</b></i><br /> 1324<i><b>2. Hill work</b></i><br /> 1325<i><b>3. The LSD run (Long Slow Distance)</b></i><br /> 1326<br /> 1327I've been doing the speed work on the wonky track in my neighborhood (see past blog post, featuring a couple of nasty track workouts). And LSD runs are easy, just head and go long. But I hadn't found a hill to do the required weekly hill workout. That is, until my run buddy, Adam, told me about a somewhat hidden hill in our neighborhood. Oh, and what a hill it is! It's quite <span style="background-color: white;">glorious</span>. It starts gradually, but then gets into a nice steep climb. Then summits, and loops back around to the the start, because, hello, it's a loop. So we've started meeting up weekly (in addition to our weekly Tuesday speed workouts on the track) for hill workouts. It's no Boston Commons hill, but it has it's merits. It's a richly<span style="background-color: white;"> </span>lush and gorgeous route, with outstanding ocean views at the summit.<br /> 1328<br /> 1329<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> 1330<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDvvocN1VXnF4mzDsc57lkKQ7Ui_4CbclGRIR
1330acNUxuBtizIAwzvQmCzAW57wDlbvtLBtrAvyKU-W2CDFtiyeDdEgmceGMz9H9SX-09mvSDdKhyphenhyphen6EPHy0b2G3wkECGM4sq7_8L_gS0d2BB/s1600/20190404_175252.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDvvocN1VXnF4mzDsc57lkKQ7Ui_4CbclGRIRacNUxuBtizIAwzvQmCzAW57wDlbvtLBtrAvyKU-W2CDFtiyeDdEgmceGMz9H9SX-09mvSDdKhyphenhyphen6EPHy0b2G3wkECGM4sq7_8L_gS0d2BB/s320/20190404_175252.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> 1331<br /> 1332<br /> 1333I'm still working on figuring out some different workouts, but we recently did these:<br /> 1334<br /> 1335<b>- Walk/run/bike to the hill</b><br /> 1336<b>- Hard effort 1/3 of the way up the hill, recover back down the hill</b><br /> 1337<b>- Hard effort 2/3 of the way up the hill, recover back down the hill</b><br /> 1338<b>- Hard effort 1/3 of the way up the hill, recover back down the hill</b><br /> 1339<b>- Solid effort 1 full loop</b><br /> 1340<i><b>Then do that 2 times</b></i><br /> 1341<br /> 1342AND<br /> 1343<br /> 1344<b>- 1/2 up one side (to the top)</b><br /> 1345<b>- 1/2 up the other side (to the top) </b><br /> 1346<b>Do that twice.</b><br /> 1347<b>Then: </b><br /> 1348<b>- 1 full loop with a run a bonus short, flat stretch <strike>to the Embassy Suites - back (which is pretty close)</strike></b><br /> 1349<b>- I full loop</b><br /> 1350<br /> 1351(I threw up in my mouth a little doing that second one)<br /> 1352<br /> 1353Some good news, my long runs have gotten longer. I'm up to 6+ miles, woohoo! Now, this doesn't seem like a lot, but as anyone coming back from an injury knows, you gotta celebrate the milestones. So I am.<br /> 1354<br /> 1355<b>Webb:</b> Meanwhile back in Boston, I did my own hill workout of sorts: Le Stade. Where Elle's workout is lush and green, mine is drab and grey. Hers is warm and humid with ocean vistas. Mine is cold, windy and dry with concrete views. Stadium workouts are very popular here, mostly due to a pop-up fitness group that has spread across the country over the last five or so years. For me it is not about running or trying to do it faster each time. It is basically a step-up workout with more than 1,000 reps. You feel it the next couple of days for sure. Even if you are not running your HR will bump into that muscular endurance zone which helps both cycling and running. Or that is what I repeat to myself starting with the 500th rep.<br /> 1356<br /> 1357<b>Elle</b>: Stay strong Webb! And next time you come to visit paradise, you'll be able to enjoy the hill! <br /> 1358 <br /> 1359<div alt="0" id="SL_balloon_obj" style="display: block;"> 1360<div class="SL_ImTranslatorLogo" id="SL_button" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) url("moz-extension://bd8c91b0-8112-6548-a350-e6ba13a821b9/content/img/util/imtranslator-s.png") repeat scroll 0% 0%; display: block; left: 411px; opacity: 1; top: 726px;"> 1361</div> 1362<div id="SL_shadow_translation_result2" style="display: none;"> 1363</div> 1364<div id="SL_shadow_translator" style="display: none; left: -10000px; top: -10000px;"> 1365<div id="SL_planshet"> 1366<div id="SL_arrow_up" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) url("moz-extension://bd8c91b0-8112-6548-a350-e6ba13a821b9/content/img/util/up.png") repeat scroll 0% 0%;"> 1367</div> 1368<div id="SL_Bproviders"> 1369<div class="SL_BL_LABLE_ON" id="SL_P0" title="Google"> 1370G</div> 1371<div class="SL_BL_LABLE_ON" id="SL_P1" title="Microsoft"> 1372M</div> 1373<div class="SL_BL_LABLE_ON" id="SL_P2" title="Translator"> 1374T</div> 1375<div class="SL_BL_LABLE_ON" id="SL_P3" title="Yandex"> 1376Y</div> 1377</div> 1378<div id="SL_alert_bbl" style="display: none;"> 1379<div id="SLHKclose" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) url("moz-extension://bd8c91b0-8112-6548-a350-e6ba13a821b9/content/img/util/delete.png") repeat scroll 0% 0%;"> 1380</div> 1381<div id="SL_alert_cont"> 1382</div> 1383</div> 1384<div id="SL_TB"> 1385<table cellspacing="1" id="SL_tables"><tbody> 1386<tr><td align="right" class="SL_td" width="10%"><input id="SL_locer" title="Lock-in language" type="checkbox" /></td><td align="left" class="SL_td" width="20%"><select id="SL_lng_from" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255) url("moz-extension://bd8c91b0-8112-6548-a350-e6ba13a821b9/content/img/util/select.png"
1386) no-repeat scroll 100% 0px;"><option value="auto">Detect language</option><option value="af">Afrikaans</option><option value="sq">Albanian</option><option value="am">Amharic</option><option value="ar">Arabic</option><option value="hy">Armenian</option><option value="az">Azerbaijani</option><option value="eu">Basque</option><option value="be">Belarusian</option><option value="bn">Bengali</option><option value="bs">Bosnian</option><option value="bg">Bulgarian</option><option value="ca">Catalan</option><option value="ceb">Cebuano</option><option value="ny">Chichewa</option><option value="zh-CN">Chinese (Simplified)</option><option value="zh-TW">Chinese (Traditional)</option><option value="co">Corsican</option><option value="hr">Croatian</option><option value="cs">Czech</option><option value="da">Danish</option><option value="nl">Dutch</option><option value="en">English</option><option value="eo">Esperanto</option><option value="et">Estonian</option><option value="tl">Filipino</option><option value="fi">Finnish</option><option value="fr">French</option><option value="fy">Frisian</option><option value="gl">Galician</option><option value="ka">Georgian</option><option value="de">German</option><option value="el">Greek</option><option value="gu">Gujarati</option><option value="ht">Haitian Creole</option><option value="ha">Hausa</option><option value="haw">Hawaiian</option><option value="iw">Hebrew</option><option value="hi">Hindi</option><option value="hmn">Hmong</option><option value="hu">Hungarian</option><option value="is">Icelandic</option><option value="ig">Igbo</option><option value="id">Indonesian</option><option value="ga">Irish</option><option value="it">Italian</option><option value="ja">Japanese</option><option value="jw">Javanese</option><option value="kn">Kannada</option><option value="kk">Kazakh</option><option value="km">Khmer</option><option value="ko">Korean</option><option value="ku">Kurdish</option><option value="ky">Kyrgyz</option><option value="lo">Lao</option><option value="la">Latin</option><option value="lv">Latvian</option><option value="lt">Lithuanian</option><option value="lb">Luxembourgish</option><option value="mk">Macedonian</option><option value="mg">Malagasy</option><option value="ms">Malay</option><option value="ml">Malayalam</option><option value="mt">Maltese</option><option value="mi">Maori</option><option value="mr">Marathi</option><option value="mn">Mongolian</option><option value="my">Myanmar (Burmese)</option><option value="ne">Nepali</option><option value="no">Norwegian</option><option value="ps">Pashto</option><option value="fa">Persian</option><option value="pl">Polish</option><option value="pt">Portuguese</option><option value="pa">Punjabi</option><option value="ro">Romanian</option><option value="ru">Russian</option><option value="sm">Samoan</option><option value="gd">Scots Gaelic</option><option value="sr">Serbian</option><option value="st">Sesotho</option><option value="sn">Shona</option><option value="sd">Sindhi</option><option value="si">Sinhala</option><option value="sk">Slovak</option><option value="sl">Slovenian</option><option value="so">Somali</option><option value="es">Spanish</option><option value="su">Sundanese</option><option value="sw">
1386Swahili</option><option value="sv">Swedish</option><option value="tg">Tajik</option><option value="ta">Tamil</option><option value="te">Telugu</option><option value="th">Thai</option><option value="tr">Turkish</option><option value="uk">Ukrainian</option><option value="ur">Urdu</option><option value="uz">Uzbek</option><option value="vi">Vietnamese</option><option value="cy">Welsh</option><option value="xh">Xhosa</option><option value="yi">Yiddish</option><option value="yo">Yoruba</option><option value="zu">Zulu</option></select></td><td align="center" class="SL_td" width="3"><div id="SL_switch_b" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) url("moz-extension://bd8c91b0-8112-6548-a350-e6ba13a821b9/content/img/util/switchb.png") repeat scroll 0% 0%;" title="Switch languages"> 1387</div> 1388</td><td align="left" class="SL_td" width="20%"><select id="SL_lng_to" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255) url("moz-extension://bd8c91b0-8112-6548-a350-e6ba13a821b9/content/img/util/select.png") no-repeat scroll 100% 0px;"><option value="af">Afrikaans</option><option value="sq">Albanian</option><option value="am">Amharic</option><option value="ar">Arabic</option><option value="hy">Armenian</option><option value="az">Azerbaijani</option><option value="eu">Basque</option><option value="be">Belarusian</option><option value="bn">Bengali</option><option value="bs">Bosnian</option><option value="bg">Bulgarian</option><option value="ca">Catalan</option><option value="ceb">Cebuano</option><option value="ny">Chichewa</option><option value="zh-CN">Chinese (Simplified)</option><option value="zh-TW">Chinese (Traditional)</option><option value="co">Corsican</option><option value="hr">Croatian</option><option value="cs">Czech</option><option value="da">Danish</option><option value="nl">Dutch</option><option selected="selected" value="en">English</option><option value="eo">Esperanto</option><option value="et">Estonian</option><option value="tl">Filipino</option><option value="fi">Finnish</option><option value="fr">French</option><option value="fy">Frisian</option><option value="gl">Galician</option><option value="ka">Georgian</option><option value="de">German</option><option value="el">Greek</option><option value="gu">Gujarati</option><option value="ht">Haitian Creole</option><option value="ha">Hausa</option><option value="haw">Hawaiian</option><option value="iw">Hebrew</option><option value="hi">Hindi</option><option value="hmn">Hmong</option><option value="hu">Hungarian</option><option value="is">Icelandic</option><option value="ig">Igbo</option><option value="id">Indonesian</option><option value="ga">Irish</option><option value="it">Italian</option><option value="ja">Japanese</option><option value="jw">Javanese</option><option value="kn">Kannada</option><option value="kk">Kazakh</option><option value="km">Khmer</option><option value="ko">Korean</option><option value="ku">Kurdish</option><option value="ky">Kyrgyz</option><option value="lo">Lao</option><option value="la">Latin</option><option value="lv">Latvian</option><option value="lt">Lithuanian</option><option value="lb">Luxembourgish</option><option value="mk">Macedonian</option><option value="mg">Malagasy</option><option value="ms">Malay</option><option value="ml">Malayalam</option><option value="mt">Maltese</option><option value="mi">Maori</option><option value="mr">Marathi</option><option value="mn">Mongolian</option><option value="my">Myanmar (Burmese)</option><option value="ne">Nepali</option><option value="no">Norwegian</option><option value="ps">Pashto</option><option value="fa">Persian</option><option value="pl">Polish</option><option value="pt">Portuguese</option><option value="pa">Punjabi</option><option value="ro">Romanian</option><option value="ru">Russian</option><option value="sm">Samoan</option><option value="gd">Scots Gaelic</option><option value="sr">Serbian</option><option value="st">Sesotho</option><option value="sn">Shona</option><option value="sd">Sindhi</option><option value="si">Sinhala</option><option value="sk">Slovak</option><option value="sl">Slovenian</option><option value="so">Somali</option><option value="es">Spanish</option><option value="su">Sundanese</option><option value="sw">
1388Swahili</option><option value="sv">Swedish</option><option value="tg">Tajik</option><option value="ta">Tamil</option><option value="te">Telugu</option><option value="th">Thai</option><option value="tr">Turkish</option><option value="uk">Ukrainian</option><option value="ur">Urdu</option><option value="uz">Uzbek</option><option value="vi">Vietnamese</option><option value="cy">Welsh</option><option value="xh">Xhosa</option><option value="yi">Yiddish</option><option value="yo">Yoruba</option><option value="zu">Zulu</option></select></td><td align="center" class="SL_td" width="8%"><div id="SL_TTS_voice" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) url("moz-extension://bd8c91b0-8112-6548-a350-e6ba13a821b9/content/img/util/ttsvoice.png") repeat scroll 0% 0%;" title="undefined"> 1389</div> 1390</td><td align="center" class="SL_td" width="8%"><div class="SL_copy" id="SL_copy" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) url("moz-extension://bd8c91b0-8112-6548-a350-e6ba13a821b9/content/img/util/copy.png") repeat scroll 0% 0%;" title="Copy translation"> 1391</div> 1392</td><td align="center" class="SL_td" width="8%"><div id="SL_bbl_font_patch"> 1393</div> 1394<div class="SL_bbl_font" id="SL_bbl_font" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) url("moz-extension://bd8c91b0-8112-6548-a350-e6ba13a821b9/content/img/util/font.png") repeat scroll 0% 0%;" title="Font size"> 1395</div> 1396</td><td align="center" class="SL_td" width="8%"><div id="SL_bbl_help" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) url("moz-extension://bd8c91b0-8112-6548-a350-e6ba13a821b9/content/img/util/bhelp.png") repeat scroll 0% 0%;" title="Help"> 1397</div> 1398</td><td align="right" class="SL_td" width="15%"><div class="SL_pin_off" id="SL_pin" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) url("moz-extension://bd8c91b0-8112-6548-a350-e6ba13a821b9/content/img/util/pin-on.png") repeat scroll 0% 0%;" title="Pin pop-up bubble"> 1399</div> 1400</td></tr> 1401</tbody></table> 1402</div> 1403</div> 1404<div id="SL_shadow_translation_result" style="visibility: visible;"> 1405</div> 1406<div class="SL_loading" id="SL_loading" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) url("moz-extension://bd8c91b0-8112-6548-a350-e6ba13a821b9/content/img/util/loading.gif") repeat scroll 0% 0%;"> 1407</div> 1408<div id="SL_player2"> 1409</div> 1410<div id="SL_alert100"> 1411Text-to-speech function is limited to 200 characters</div> 1412<div id="SL_Balloon_options" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255) url("moz-extension://bd8c91b0-8112-6548-a350-e6ba13a821b9/content/img/util/bg3.png") repeat scroll 0% 0%;"> 1413<div id="SL_arrow_down" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) url("moz-extension://bd8c91b0-8112-6548-a350-e6ba13a821b9/content/img/util/down.png") repeat scroll 0% 0%;"> 1414</div> 1415<table id="SL_tbl_opt" style="width: 100%px;"><tbody> 1416<tr><td align="center" class="SL_td" width="5%"><input checked="1" id="SL_BBL_locer" title="Show Translator's button 3 second(s)" type="checkbox" /></td><td align="left" class="SL_td" width="5%"><div id="SL_BBL_IMG" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) url("moz-extension://bd8c91b0-8112-6548-a350-e6ba13a821b9/content/img/util/bbl-logo.png") repeat scroll 0% 0%;" title="Show Translator's button 3 second(s)"> 1417</div> 1418</td><td align="center" class="SL_td" width="70%"><a class="SL_options" href="moz-extension://bd8c91b0-8112-6548-a350-e6ba13a821b9/content/html/options/options.html?bbl" id="SL_opt1" target="_blank" title="Show options">Options</a> : <a class="SL_options" href="moz-extension://bd8c91b0-8112-6548-a350-e6ba13a821b9/content/html/options/options.html?hist" id="SL_opt2" target="_blank" title="Translation History">History</a> : <a class="SL_options" href="moz-extension://bd8c91b0-8112-6548-a350-e6ba13a821b9/content/html/options/options.html?feed" id="SL_opt3" target="_blank" title="ImTranslator Feedback">Feedback</a> : <a class="SL_options" href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=GD9D8CPW8HFA2" id="SL_opt4" target="_blank" title="Make a small contribution">Donate</a></td><td align="right" class="SL_td" width="15%"><span class="SL_options" id="SL_Balloon_Close" title="Close">Close</span></td></tr> 1419</tbody></table> 1420</div> 1421</div> 1422</div> 1423<div style='clear: both;'></div> 1424</div> 1425<div class='post-footer'> 1426<div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> 1427Posted by 1428<span class='fn'> 1429<a href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/16471360474487390185' rel='author' title='author profile'> 1430Elle and Webb 1431</a> 1432</span> 1433</span> 1434<span class='post-timestamp'> 1435at 1436<a class='timestamp-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2019/04/hills-glorious-hills.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2019-04-06T21:18:00-04:00'>9:18 PM</abbr></a> 1437</span> 1438<span class='post-comment-link'> 1439<a class='comment-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2019/04/hills-glorious-hills.html#comment-form' onclick=''>0 1440comments</a> 1441</span> 1442<span class='post-icons'> 1443<span class='item-action'> 1444<a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/6298488371355794080/4299592559011428945' title='Email Post'> 1445<img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> 1446</a> 1447</span> 1448<span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1083025953'> 1449<a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6298488371355794080&postID=4299592559011428945&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> 1450<img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> 1451</a> 1452</span> 1453</span> 1454<div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> 1455<a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post/6298488371355794080/4299592559011428945?https=true&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post/6298488371355794080/4299592559011428945?https=true&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post/6298488371355794080/4299592559011428945?https=true&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post/6298488371355794080/4299592559011428945?https=true&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post/6298488371355794080/4299592559011428945?https=true&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to P
1455interest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> 1456</div> 1457</div> 1458<div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> 1459</span> 1460</div> 1461<div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'><span class='post-location'> 1462</span> 1463</div> 1464</div> 1465</div> 1466</div> 1467 1468 </div></div> 1469 1470 1471 <div class="date-outer"> 1472 1473<h2 class='date-header'><span>Saturday, March 9, 2019</span></h2> 1474 1475 <div class="date-posts"> 1476 1477<div class='post-outer'> 1478<div class='post hentry'> 1479<a name='323226451756054958'></a> 1480<h3 class='post-title entry-title'> 1481<a href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2019/03/baby-got-brand-new-bag.html'>Baby's got a brand new bag </a> 1482</h3> 1483<div class='post-header'> 1484<div class='post-header-line-1'></div> 1485</div> 1486<div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-323226451756054958'> 1487<div dir="ltr"> 1488<b>Elle</b>: Okay, so not a 'new bag', but new shoes, I'm of the brand of people who DON'T buy running shoes every 6 months, or whatever the running shoe companies tell you. When my shoes start to break down or fall apart, THAT'S when I buy a new pair (right Trent?!?) So I haven't bought new running shoes for a couple of years. But finally, I decided it was time. Mostly because I needed a new pair of tri shoes that would make my transitions speedy as hell (If I don't have one of the top 3 fastest transition times, then what the hell am I doing there...competitive much? Yup. Not apologizing). I've been looking for shoes like this for a LONG time. And no dice. And then one day, out of the shoe-ness blue, I found these, like a gift from above:<br /> 1489<br /> 1490<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> 1491<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhImva7SjPdBLeLVLyxkuqqxi3It-ybqYVOoaOEK96VZlsyP1-2RvtitiAQYAgmTxuXC1HtLX7oR2jhGEG44rAtQV5c4yZOx5YbZaplySCJwnr_qtXUgq9EjBQg53xTcTcGcFfYd_9Rop6_/s1600/20190123_191410.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="693" data-original-width="900" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhImva7SjPdBLeLVLyxkuqqxi3It-ybqYVOoaOEK96VZlsyP1-2RvtitiAQYAgmTxuXC1HtLX7oR2jhGEG44rAtQV5c4yZOx5YbZaplySCJwnr_qtXUgq9EjBQg53xTcTcGcFfYd_9Rop6_/s320/20190123_191410.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> 1492</div> 1493<div dir="ltr"> 1494<br /> 1495Integrated tongue, pull tight laces, high back and front for quick slip on. YES! Finally! After so many years of searching. See, sometimes dreams do come true...<br /> 1496<br /> 1497So far, as I slowly get back into running, I've only been running short distances. One of my staples is an out and back from my apartment to the hotel in Dorado del Mar and back. When I run, I like to establish landmarks that I run toward, or pass, as a mental push that helps me along the way. The first and favorite is the kitten house. There are like, 5 - 6 (or more?) kittens that live at this house. I've been trying to make contact, and I'm determined to make friends with them. They are cute as hell, obviously. <br /> 1498<br /> 1499<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> 1500<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj25brZmshO538R3Y0ViI-BuHlICm0shgHAO8nq7OwCtTvEsVrpczRcKlKkGCCeDQBufFGQKNgj8EevfXyTl6Bca97mZt7KTUY4K6Yp3QwBUhKd19XYjQdGVU1P_3NwDi1zuypQ8OdA_7Zo/s1600/20190309_181201.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj25brZmshO538R3Y0ViI-BuHlICm0shgHAO8nq7OwCtTvEsVrpczRcKlKkGCCeDQBufFGQKNgj8EevfXyTl6Bca97mZt7KTUY4K6Yp3QwBUhKd19XYjQdGVU1P_3NwDi1zuypQ8OdA_7Zo/s320/20190309_181201.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> 1501<br /> 1502<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> 1503<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDNhVkBUf4Lug6wGHEm0ZVJeUAG2KYuwymHq1M7yMYCZSWd6tmvRTvSUFzwK51-j3GvMcdOuKnC44eh7AOqz9oRCLdrYraxq4duQOhSh8kHCMQrgbe9xE5g8Z7AV5ji2a53VhJqnfsSdBG/s1600/20190309_181205.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDNhVkBUf4Lug6wGHEm0ZVJeUAG2KYuwymHq1M7yMYCZSWd6tmvRTvSUFzwK51-j3GvMcdOuKnC44eh7AOqz9oRCLdrYraxq4duQOhSh8kHCMQrgbe9xE5g8Z7AV5ji2a53VhJqnfsSdBG/s320/20190309_181205.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> 1504<br /> 1505<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> 1506<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP-TvdTjkgO0TrhsGo9XbnoL_VHsa-W6wWxhnJeQpCpWlMWlPOw54pPkNtI8LVnXs38RH__DhyphenhyphenkPvubTOoPC3TU5i8UMa8GCz86Q8Pwm-8TV2JXNHay2HqgY2DIRPSvK68_CV9CSfAirUf/s1600/20190309_182105.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP-TvdTjkgO0TrhsGo9XbnoL_VHsa-W6wWxhnJeQpCpWlMWlPOw54pPkNtI8LVnXs38RH__DhyphenhyphenkPvubTOoPC3TU5i8UMa8GCz86Q8Pwm-8TV2JXNHay2HqgY2DIRPSvK68_CV9CSfAirUf/s320/20190309_182105.jpg" width="240" /></a></div> 1507<br /> 1508<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> 1509<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghdHq6HYXGfIevXH2t1CvBe7lQyp3kEEGRjoP_9sD2rBnWMuKf9w6AOL9AbRsNvXO2twl_8xg_Nb_62YXZZKGHe1mw0URWOsgOcF_3AC_zFHgbXA4AOxNvrz30KYKbqO0WnrPVoQ-QvTS2/s1600/20190309_182201.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="1600" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghdHq6HYXGfIevXH2t1CvBe7lQyp3kEEGRjoP_9sD2rBnWMuKf9w6AOL9AbRsNvXO2twl_8xg_Nb_62YXZZKGHe1mw0URWOsgOcF_3AC_zFHgbXA4AOxNvrz30KYKbqO0WnrPVoQ-QvTS2/s320/20190309_182201.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> 1510<br /> 1511<br /> 1512Somewhere in mile 2 are the Egrets. Like a bunch of them. Ya just get used to their white feathered beauty after a point. And that's right near the 'Bird Tree'. A shite load birds live there. And they are always there. Right in this specific spot. Every day.<br /> 1513<br /> 1514And there's also a couple of geese I pass. They're on the other side of a fence, always in the same spot. They live on the golf course near a pond with a smattering of other fowl. And a calico cat also lives there. Like a boss. I often see her sitting by the fence right where the goose couple are. She just sits there, hanging out with them. Her and all her fowl friends. The geese squawk at any one who passes by, and she just sits there. It's like her goose friends are protecting her. And she's like, "Yeah, you wanna mess with me? I don't think so.....".<br /> 1515<br /> 1516So for my speed workouts, I use the 'track'. A term I use loosely, as it's far from a typical American track. But hey, at least I have a wonky track to use! No complaints here, it does the job. Here are a couple of speed workouts that I've done so far. Try 'em for yourself:<br /> 1517<br /> 1518<u><b>Workout 1:</b></u><br /> 1519<b><i>200 meters @ your 5k pace, 200 meters at your mile pace (x2)</i></b><br /> 1520<b><i>30 second rest</i></b><br /> 1521<b><i>400 meters @ your mile pace</i></b><br /> 1522<b><i>rest: 2 miuntes</i></b><br /> 1523(Now do that 4 times. If you're not completely gassed after that, you didn't run hard enough.)<br /> 1524<br /> 1525<u><b>Track Workout 2:</b></u><br /> 1526<div> 1527<i><b>300m @ 10K pace, 100m @ 5k pace</b></i></div> 1528<div> 1529<i><b>1 full lap strong</b></i></div> 1530<div> 1531<i><b>(Repeat 3-4 times)</b></i></div> 1532<b><br /></b> 1533Now normally, I've been running in the morning, which is ideal on a tropical island. It's still relatively cool outside, and the sun hasn't had a chance to warm the ground up to 100-degrees. But one day, I had to postpone my workout (something to do with a bike ride in Old San Juan, which was fantastic), but lack of planning left my friend and I without food and water for about 5 hours, and we got dehydrated. And that sticks with you for awhile. Long story short, I ended up doing my run at 3pm. In the blazing sun + heat. The plan was to do a simple 6 mile run. But I couldn't even manage that. 4 miles and I was DONE. But hey, got a run it.<br /> 1534<br /> 1535Meanwhile, here's a couple of pics from the Old San Juan excursion:<br /> 1536<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> 1537<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7Y64RvgWNZdP2pAKuW6rJ0IFo4u4B3WUA5o3cMG4c04yGSvfCg-b7nFp_Gkh_udb3hjURQkJCHeo7DVd4CriFvTEiqL7E87orZK7Fj02_QeN-iTG4B-D0wPtcyT4Ri7PQNYPBWSP4B8JV/s1600/20190202_192419.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1389" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7Y64RvgWNZdP2pAKuW6rJ0IFo4u4B3WUA5o3cMG4c04yGSvfCg-b7nFp_Gkh_udb3hjURQkJCHeo7DVd4CriFvTEiqL7E87orZK7Fj02_QeN-iTG4B-D0wPtcyT4Ri7PQNYPBWSP4B8JV/s320/20190202_192419.jpg" width="277" /></a></td></tr> 1538<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Plaza in Old San Juan</td></tr> 1539</tbody></table> 1540<br /> 1541<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> 1542<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf5W-DvWcTPOgJ3Whma3sYbkjEGMnYXT5Ix-HujgRwNsyFC3bJ7U0U84wqWP1U_ksXsw6K0-l0Z8ZOL23ekkOugCEE1XSoyGf5XeRH3YmGbkO1GyLYbKBVPovc92KCDr4ZPYp0-uHWjzMx/s1600/20190202_192447.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf5W-DvWcTPOgJ3Whma3sYbkjEGMnYXT5Ix-HujgRwNsyFC3bJ7U0U84wqWP1U_ksXsw6K0-l0Z8ZOL23ekkOugCEE1XSoyGf5XeRH3YmGbkO1GyLYbKBVPovc92KCDr4ZPYp0-uHWjzMx/s320/20190202_192447.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr> 1543<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Famous side street of umbrellas</td></tr> 1544</tbody></table> 1545<br /> 1546<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> 1547<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhLkDhaf8cPqafVa2QUd1Y3lapnEXCA0EziOlQ9YTTdo5pTyHGpmx6sEkB5kVSaEefpw6R5PbfDaSy00OdMKm2dghjEviTVZYl-aBmA1pdUpn3EV8uEVdgaoUVjyxMCauvaKnCPj2X4ZCb/s1600/20190202_192640.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhLkDhaf8cPqafVa2QUd1Y3lapnEXCA0EziOlQ9YTTdo5pTyHGpmx6sEkB5kVSaEefpw6R5PbfDaSy00OdMKm2dghjEviTVZYl-aBmA1pdUpn3EV8uEVdgaoUVjyxMCauvaKnCPj2X4ZCb/s320/20190202_192640.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr> 1548<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me + Bridget with whom I bike around Old San Juan...</td></tr> 1549</tbody></table> 1550<br /> 1551<br /></div> 1552<div style='clear: both;'></div> 1553</div> 1554<div class='post-footer'> 1555<div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> 1556Posted by 1557<span class='fn'> 1558<a href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/16471360474487390185' rel='author' title='author profile'> 1559Elle and Webb 1560</a> 1561</span> 1562</span> 1563<span class='post-timestamp'> 1564at 1565<a class='timestamp-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2019/03/baby-got-brand-new-bag.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2019-03-09T18:24:00-05:00'>6:24 PM</abbr></a> 1566</span> 1567<span class='post-comment-link'> 1568<a class='comment-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2019/03/baby-got-brand-new-bag.html#comment-form' onclick=''>0 1569comments</a> 1570</span> 1571<span class='post-icons'> 1572<span class='item-action'> 1573<a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/6298488371355794080/323226451756054958' title='Email Post'> 1574<img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="//img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18"> 1575</a> 1576</span> 1577<span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1083025953'> 1578<a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6298488371355794080&postID=323226451756054958&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> 1579<img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> 1580</a> 1581</span> 1582</span> 1583<div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> 1584<a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post/6298488371355794080/323226451756054958?https=true&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post/6298488371355794080/323226451756054958?https=true&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post/6298488371355794080/323226451756054958?https=true&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post/6298488371355794080/323226451756054958?https=true&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post/6298488371355794080/323226451756054958?https=true&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to P
1584interest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> 1585</div> 1586</div> 1587<div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> 1588</span> 1589</div> 1590<div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'><span class='post-location'> 1591</span> 1592</div> 1593</div> 1594</div> 1595</div> 1596 1597 </div></div> 1598 1599</div> 1600<div class='blog-pager' id='blog-pager'> 1601<span id='blog-pager-older-link'> 1602<a class='blog-pager-older-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2019-03-09T18:24:00-05:00&max-results=7' id='Blog1_blog-pager-older-link' title='Older Posts'>Older Posts</a> 1603</span> 1604<a class='home-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/'>Home</a> 1605</div> 1606<div class='clear'></div> 1607<div class='blog-feeds'> 1608<div class='feed-links'> 1609Subscribe to: 1610<a class='feed-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default' target='_blank' type='application/atom+xml'>Posts (Atom)</a> 1611</div> 1612</div> 1613</div></div> 1614</div> 1615</div> 1616<div class='column-left-outer'> 1617<div class='column-left-inner'> 1618<aside> 1619</aside> 1620</div> 1621</div> 1622<div class='column-right-outer'> 1623<div class='column-right-inner'> 1624<aside> 1625<div class='sidebar section' id='sidebar-right-1'><div class='widget BlogSearch' data-version='1' id='BlogSearch1'> 1626<h2 class='title'>Search</h2> 1627<div class='widget-content'> 1628<div id='BlogSearch1_form'> 1629<form action='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/search' class='gsc-search-box' target='_top'> 1630<table cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' class='gsc-search-box'> 1631<tbody> 1632<tr> 1633<td class='gsc-input'> 1634<input autocomplete='off' class='gsc-input' name='q' size='10' title='search' type='text' value=''/> 1635</td> 1636<td class='gsc-search-button'> 1637<input class='gsc-search-button' title='search' type='submit' value='Search'/> 1638</td> 1639</tr> 1640</tbody> 1641</table> 1642</form> 1643</div> 1644</div> 1645<div class='clear'></div> 1646</div><div class='widget Subscribe' data-version='1' id='Subscribe1'> 1647<div style='white-space:nowrap'> 1648<h2 class='title'>Subscribe To</h2> 1649<div class='widget-content'> 1650<div class='subscribe-wrapper subscribe-type-POST'> 1651<div class='subscribe expanded subscribe-type-POST' id='SW_READER_LIST_Subscribe1POST' style='display:none;'> 1652<div class='top'> 1653<span class='inner' onclick='return(_SW_toggleReaderList(event, "Subscribe1POST"));'> 1654<img class='subscribe-dropdown-arrow' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/widgets/arrow_dropdown.gif'/> 1655<img align='absmiddle' alt='' border='0' class='feed-icon' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon_feed12.png'/> 1656Posts 1657</span> 1658<div class='feed-reader-links'> 1659<a class='feed-reader-link' href='https://www.netvibes.com/subscribe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftriathletesjourney.blogspot.com%2Ffeeds%2Fposts%2Fdefault' target='_blank'> 1660<img src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/widgets/subscribe-netvibes.png'/> 1661</a> 1662<a class='feed-reader-link' href='https://add.my.yahoo.com/content?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftriathletesjourney.blogspot.com%2Ffeeds%2Fposts%2Fdefault' target='_blank'> 1663<img src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/widgets/subscribe-yahoo.png'/> 1664</a> 1665<a class='feed-reader-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default' target='_blank'> 1666<img align='absmiddle' class='feed-icon' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon_feed12.png'/> 1667 Atom 1668 </a> 1669</div> 1670</div> 1671<div class='bottom'></div> 1672</div> 1673<div class='subscribe' id='SW_READER_LIST_CLOSED_Subscribe1POST' onclick='return(_SW_toggleReaderList(event, "Subscribe1POST"));'> 1674<div class='top'> 1675<span class='inner'> 1676<img class='subscribe-dropdown-arrow' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/widgets/arrow_dropdown.gif'/> 1677<span onclick='return(_SW_toggleReaderList(event, "Subscribe1POST"));'> 1678<img align='absmiddle' alt='' border='0' class='feed-icon' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon_feed12.png'/> 1679Posts 1680</span> 1681</span> 1682</div> 1683<div class='bottom'></div> 1684</div> 1685</div> 1686<div class='subscribe-wrapper subscribe-type-COMMENT'> 1687<div class='subscribe expanded subscribe-type-COMMENT' id='SW_READER_LIST_Subscribe1COMMENT' style='display:none;'> 1688<div class='top'> 1689<span class='inner' onclick='return(_SW_toggleReaderList(event, "Subscribe1COMMENT"));'> 1690<img class='subscribe-dropdown-arrow' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/widgets/arrow_dropdown.gif'/> 1691<img align='absmiddle' alt='' border='0' class='feed-icon' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon_feed12.png'/> 1692All Comments 1693</span> 1694<div class='feed-reader-links'> 1695<a class='feed-reader-link' href='https://www.netvibes.com/subscribe.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftriathletesjourney.blogspot.com%2Ffeeds%2Fcomments%2Fdefault' target='_blank'> 1696<img src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/widgets/subscribe-netvibes.png'/> 1697</a> 1698<a class='feed-reader-link' href='https://add.my.yahoo.com/content?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftriathletesjourney.blogspot.com%2Ffeeds%2Fcomments%2Fdefault' target='_blank'> 1699<img src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/widgets/subscribe-yahoo.png'/> 1700</a> 1701<a class='feed-reader-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default' target='_blank'> 1702<img align='absmiddle' class='feed-icon' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon_feed12.png'/> 1703 Atom 1704 </a> 1705</div> 1706</div> 1707<div class='bottom'></div> 1708</div> 1709<div class='subscribe' id='SW_READER_LIST_CLOSED_Subscribe1COMMENT' onclick='return(_SW_toggleReaderList(event, "Subscribe1COMMENT"));'> 1710<div class='top'> 1711<span class='inner'> 1712<img class='subscribe-dropdown-arrow' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/widgets/arrow_dropdown.gif'/> 1713<span onclick='return(_SW_toggleReaderList(event, "Subscribe1COMMENT"));'> 1714<img align='absmiddle' alt='' border='0' class='feed-icon' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon_feed12.png'/> 1715All Comments 1716</span> 1717</span> 1718</div> 1719<div class='bottom'></div> 1720</div> 1721</div> 1722<div style='clear:both'></div> 1723</div> 1724</div> 1725<div class='clear'></div> 1726</div><div class='widget Followers' data-version='1' id='Followers1'> 1727<h2 class='title'>Followers</h2> 1728<div class='widget-content'> 1729<div id='Followers1-wrapper'> 1730<div style='margin-right:2px;'> 1731<div>
1731<script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/platform.js"></script>
1731 1732<div id="followers-iframe-container"></div>
1733<script type="text/javascript"> 1734 window.followersIframe = null; 1735 function followersIframeOpen(url) { 1736 gapi.load("gapi.iframes", function() { 1737 if (gapi.iframes && gapi.iframes.getContext) { 1738 window.followersIframe = gapi.iframes.getContext().openChild({ 1739 url: url, 1740 where: document.getElementById("followers-iframe-container"), 1741 messageHandlersFilter: gapi.iframes.CROSS_ORIGIN_IFRAMES_FILTER, 1742 messageHandlers: { 1743 '_ready': function(obj) { 1744 window.followersIframe.getIframeEl().height = obj.height; 1745 }, 1746 'reset': function() { 1747 window.followersIframe.close(); 1748 followersIframeOpen("https://www.blogger.com/followers/frame/6298488371355794080?colors\x3dCgt0cmFuc3BhcmVudBILdHJhbnNwYXJlbnQaByMyYTIyMWEiByMwMDAwZmYqC3RyYW5zcGFyZW50MgcjODg4ODg4OgcjMmEyMjFhQgcjMDAwMGZmSgcjMDAwMDAwUgcjMDAwMGZmWgt0cmFuc3BhcmVudA%3D%3D\x26pageSize\x3d21\x26hl\x3den\x26origin\x3dhttps://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com"); 1749 }, 1750 'open': function(url) { 1751 window.followersIframe.close(); 1752 followersIframeOpen(url); 1753 } 1754 } 1755 }); 1756 } 1757 }); 1758 } 1759 followersIframeOpen("https://www.blogger.com/followers/frame/6298488371355794080?colors\x3dCgt0cmFuc3BhcmVudBILdHJhbnNwYXJlbnQaByMyYTIyMWEiByMwMDAwZmYqC3RyYW5zcGFyZW50MgcjODg4ODg4OgcjMmEyMjFhQgcjMDAwMGZmSgcjMDAwMDAwUgcjMDAwMGZmWgt0cmFuc3BhcmVudA%3D%3D\x26pageSize\x3d21\x26hl\x3den\x26origin\x3dhttps://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com"); 1760 </script>
1760</div> 1761</div> 1762</div> 1763<div class='clear'></div> 1764</div> 1765</div><div class='widget HTML' data-version='1' id='HTML5'> 1766<h2 class='title'>TheSufferfest.com</h2> 1767<div class='widget-content'> 1768<a target="_blank" href="http://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=236830&u=636597&m=27765&urllink=&afftrack="><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_uJgQAiYsBoY58LDF4owuQDtOH0QGodooxsEJtwd0-P-vceaViIqDNMt2CTz1h8qtS1OzuRkckYR1SIP7XaOQonY0vCd-5cDZmRBkHCQ59xpQ_zkkCRkNa8xw6UPMsp=s0-d" alt="The Sufferfest: Downloadable cycling workout videos." border="0"></a> 1769</div> 1770<div class='clear'></div> 1771</div><div class='widget HTML' data-version='1' id='HTML2'> 1772<h2 class='title'>Stomach of Anger</h2> 1773<div class='widget-content'>
1774<script type="text/javascript"> 1775 var zfBaseURL=(("https:"==document.location.protocol) 1776 ? "https://stomachofanger.zferral.com/mjs/3/28603" 1777 : "http://stomachofanger.zferral.com/mjs/3/28603"); 1778 document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src=" + zfBaseURL 1779 + " type=\"text/javascript\"%3E%3C/script%3E")); 1780</script>
1780 1781<noscript><a href="http://stomachofanger.zferral.com/l/3/28603" title=""><img src="https://stomachofanger.zferral.com/m/3" alt="" title="" style="border: none" /></a></noscript> 1782</div> 1783<div class='clear'></div> 1784</div><div class='widget HTML' data-version='1' id='HTML4'> 1785<h2 class='title'>SwimOutlet.com</h2> 1786<div class='widget-content'> 1787<p><a href="http://www.swimoutlet.com/default.asp?Click=1140982"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_u_DfxWny_eK3ppUK96RIy90ZaUcJkA6uWryTBWGqbFcnubFApUtR9UDZl8oaImEbb7THdLmJz_2QjctLjwrln8ObUisU5tJVVN80MyHbcDBi5tXQg09KVRH0dou0uMBRu_MiP0PjvAf6HrLg=s0-d"></a></p> 1788</div> 1789<div class='clear'></div> 1790</div><div class='widget HTML' data-version='1' id='HTML1'> 1791<div class='widget-content'> 1792<!-- Start of StatCounter Code for Blogger / Blogspot -->
1793<script type="text/javascript"> 1794var sc_project=7546127; 1795var sc_invisible=1; 1796var sc_security="a6c7bf1a"; 1797</script>
vendor: 1 bytes, line 1797
1797
1798<script type="text/javascript" src="//www.statcounter.com/counter/counter_xhtml.js"></script>
1798 1799<noscript><div class="statcounter"><a title="blogspot visitor counter" href="http://statcounter.com/blogger/" class="statcounter"><img class="statcounter" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_srFenYmY2kjnG4yLRGPf2cZ9BrzJrxWsN5ELN4pJ3pTAfrnnGVjcbVjCNtSQwmpUJAUH66Y6zGumX-lV3lz0Qj0gBxz2JrUJxPg5oqJBIPEw=s0-d" alt="blogspot visitor counter"></a></div></noscript> 1800<!-- End of StatCounter Code for Blogger / Blogspot --> 1801</div> 1802<div class='clear'></div> 1803</div><div class='widget BlogArchive' data-version='1' id='BlogArchive1'> 1804<h2>Blog Archive</h2> 1805<div class='widget-content'> 1806<div id='ArchiveList'> 1807<div id='BlogArchive1_ArchiveList'> 1808<ul class='hierarchy'> 1809<li class='archivedate expanded'> 1810<a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> 1811<span class='zippy toggle-open'> 1812 1813 ▼  1814 1815</span> 1816</a> 1817<a class='post-count-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2019/'> 18182019 1819</a> 1820<span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(11)</span> 1821<ul class='hierarchy'> 1822<li class='archivedate expanded'> 1823<a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> 1824<span class='zippy toggle-open'> 1825 1826 ▼  1827 1828</span> 1829</a> 1830<a class='post-count-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2019/07/'> 1831July 1832</a> 1833<span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(2)</span> 1834<ul class='posts'> 1835<li><a href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2019/07/la-zanja-in-fajardo-pr.html'>La Zanja in Fajardo, PR</a></li> 1836<li><a href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2019/07/spelunking-is-arecibo-boating-to-lunch.html'>Spelunking is Arecibo + boating to lunch</a></li> 1837</ul> 1838</li> 1839</ul> 1840<ul class='hierarchy'> 1841<li class='archivedate collapsed'> 1842<a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> 1843<span class='zippy'> 1844 1845 ►  1846 1847</span> 1848</a> 1849<a class='post-count-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2019/06/'> 1850June 1851</a> 1852<span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(2)</span> 1853</li> 1854</ul> 1855<ul class='hierarchy'> 1856<li class='archivedate collapsed'> 1857<a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> 1858<span class='zippy'> 1859 1860 ►  1861 1862</span> 1863</a> 1864<a class='post-count-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2019/04/'> 1865April 1866</a> 1867<span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(2)</span> 1868</li> 1869</ul> 1870<ul class='hierarchy'> 1871<li class='archivedate collapsed'> 1872<a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> 1873<span class='zippy'> 1874 1875 ►  1876 1877</span> 1878</a> 1879<a class='post-count-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2019/03/'> 1880March 1881</a> 1882<span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(2)</span> 1883</li> 1884</ul> 1885<ul class='hierarchy'> 1886<li class='archivedate collapsed'> 1887<a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> 1888<span class='zippy'> 1889 1890 ►  1891 1892</span> 1893</a> 1894<a class='post-count-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2019/02/'> 1895February 1896</a> 1897<span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(1)</span> 1898</li> 1899</ul> 1900<ul class='hierarchy'> 1901<li class='archivedate collapsed'> 1902<a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> 1903<span class='zippy'> 1904 1905 ►  1906 1907</span> 1908</a> 1909<a class='post-count-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2019/01/'> 1910January 1911</a> 1912<span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(2)</span> 1913</li> 1914</ul> 1915</li> 1916</ul> 1917<ul class='hierarchy'> 1918<li class='archivedate collapsed'> 1919<a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> 1920<span class='zippy'> 1921 1922 ►  1923 1924</span> 1925</a> 1926<a class='post-count-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2015/'> 19272015 1928</a> 1929<span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(2)</span> 1930<ul class='hierarchy'> 1931<li class='archivedate collapsed'> 1932<a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> 1933<span class='zippy'> 1934 1935 ►  1936 1937</span> 1938</a> 1939<a class='post-count-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2015/08/'> 1940August 1941</a> 1942<span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(1)</span> 1943</li> 1944</ul> 1945<ul class='hierarchy'> 1946<li class='archivedate collapsed'> 1947<a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> 1948<span class='zippy'> 1949 1950 ►  1951 1952</span> 1953</a> 1954<a class='post-count-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2015/06/'> 1955June 1956</a> 1957<span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(1)</span> 1958</li> 1959</ul> 1960</li> 1961</ul> 1962<ul class='hierarchy'> 1963<li class='archivedate collapsed'> 1964<a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> 1965<span class='zippy'> 1966 1967 ►  1968 1969</span> 1970</a> 1971<a class='post-count-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2014/'> 19722014
1973</a> 1974<span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(17)</span> 1975<ul class='hierarchy'> 1976<li class='archivedate collapsed'> 1977<a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> 1978<span class='zippy'> 1979 1980 ►  1981 1982</span> 1983</a> 1984<a class='post-count-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2014/12/'> 1985December 1986</a> 1987<span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> 1988</li> 1989</ul> 1990<ul class='hierarchy'> 1991<li class='archivedate collapsed'> 1992<a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> 1993<span class='zippy'> 1994 1995 ►  1996 1997</span> 1998</a> 1999<a class='post-count-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2014/07/'> 2000July 2001</a> 2002<span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> 2003</li> 2004</ul> 2005<ul class='hierarchy'> 2006<li class='archivedate collapsed'> 2007<a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> 2008<span class='zippy'> 2009 2010 ►  2011 2012</span> 2013</a> 2014<a class='post-count-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2014/02/'> 2015February 2016</a> 2017<span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> 2018</li> 2019</ul> 2020<ul class='hierarchy'> 2021<li class='archivedate collapsed'> 2022<a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> 2023<span class='zippy'> 2024 2025 ►  2026 2027</span> 2028</a> 2029<a class='post-count-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2014/01/'> 2030January 2031</a> 2032<span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> 2033</li> 2034</ul> 2035</li> 2036</ul> 2037<ul class='hierarchy'> 2038<li class='archivedate collapsed'> 2039<a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> 2040<span class='zippy'> 2041 2042 ►  2043 2044</span> 2045</a> 2046<a class='post-count-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2013/'> 20472013 2048</a> 2049<span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(20)</span> 2050<ul class='hierarchy'> 2051<li class='archivedate collapsed'> 2052<a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> 2053<span class='zippy'> 2054 2055 ►  2056 2057</span> 2058</a> 2059<a class='post-count-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2013/10/'> 2060October 2061</a> 2062<span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> 2063</li> 2064</ul> 2065<ul class='hierarchy'> 2066<li class='archivedate collapsed'> 2067<a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> 2068<span class='zippy'> 2069 2070 ►  2071 2072</span> 2073</a> 2074<a class='post-count-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2013/09/'> 2075September 2076</a> 2077<span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(2)</span> 2078</li> 2079</ul> 2080<ul class='hierarchy'> 2081<li class='archivedate collapsed'> 2082<a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> 2083<span class='zippy'> 2084 2085 ►  2086 2087</span> 2088</a> 2089<a class='post-count-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2013/08/'> 2090August 2091</a> 2092<span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(2)</span> 2093</li> 2094</ul> 2095<ul class='hierarchy'> 2096<li class='archivedate collapsed'> 2097<a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> 2098<span class='zippy'> 2099 2100 ►  2101 2102</span> 2103</a> 2104<a class='post-count-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2013/07/'> 2105July 2106</a> 2107<span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> 2108</li> 2109</ul> 2110<ul class='hierarchy'> 2111<li class='archivedate collapsed'> 2112<a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> 2113<span class='zippy'> 2114 2115 ►  2116 2117</span> 2118</a> 2119<a class='post-count-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2013/06/'> 2120June 2121</a> 2122<span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> 2123</li> 2124</ul> 2125<ul class='hierarchy'> 2126<li class='archivedate collapsed'> 2127<a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> 2128<span class='zippy'> 2129 2130 ►  2131 2132</span> 2133</a> 2134<a class='post-count-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2013/05/'> 2135May 2136</a> 2137<span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(1)</span> 2138</li> 2139</ul> 2140<ul class='hierarchy'> 2141<li class='archivedate collapsed'> 2142<a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> 2143<span class='zippy'> 2144 2145 ►  2146 2147</span> 2148</a> 2149<a class='post-count-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2013/04/'> 2150April 2151</a> 2152<span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> 2153</li> 2154</ul> 2155<ul class='hierarchy'> 2156<li class='archivedate collapsed'> 2157<a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> 2158<span class='zippy'> 2159 2160 ►  2161 2162</span> 2163</a> 2164<a class='post-count-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2013/01/'> 2165January 2166</a> 2167<span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(1)</span> 2168</li> 2169</ul> 2170</li> 2171</ul> 2172<ul class='hierarchy'> 2173<li class='archivedate collapsed'> 2174<a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> 2175<span class='zippy'> 2176 2177 ►  2178 2179</span> 2180</a> 2181<a class='post-count-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2012/'> 21822012 2183</a> 2184<span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(101)</span> 2185<ul class='hierarchy'> 2186<li class='archivedate collapsed'> 2187<a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> 2188<span class='zippy'> 2189 2190 ►  2191 2192</span> 2193</a> 2194<a class='post-count-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2012/12/'> 2195December 2196</a> 2197<span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(12)</span> 2198</li> 2199</ul> 2200<ul class='hierarchy'> 2201<li class='archivedate collapsed'> 2202<a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> 2203<span class='zippy'> 2204 2205 ►  2206 2207</span> 2208</a> 2209<a class='post-count-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2012/11/'> 2210November 2211</a> 2212<span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(1)</span> 2213</li> 2214</ul> 2215<ul class='hierarchy'> 2216<li class='archivedate collapsed'> 2217<a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> 2218<span class='zippy'> 2219 2220 ►  2221 2222</span> 2223</a> 2224<a class='post-count-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2012/10/'> 2225October 2226</a> 2227<span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(2)</span> 2228</li> 2229</ul> 2230<ul class='hierarchy'> 2231<li class='archivedate collapsed'> 2232<a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> 2233<span class='zippy'> 2234 2235 ►  2236 2237</span> 2238</a> 2239<a class='post-count-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2012/09/'> 2240September 2241</a> 2242<span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(2)</span> 2243</li> 2244</ul> 2245<ul class='hierarchy'> 2246<li class='archivedate collapsed'> 2247<a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> 2248<span class='zippy'> 2249 2250 ►  2251 2252</span> 2253</a> 2254<a class='post-count-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2012/08/'> 2255August 2256</a> 2257<span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(6)</span> 2258</li> 2259</ul> 2260<ul class='hierarchy'> 2261<li class='archivedate collapsed'> 2262<a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> 2263<span class='zippy'> 2264 2265 ►  2266 2267</span> 2268</a> 2269<a class='post-count-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2012/07/'> 2270July 2271</a> 2272<span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(7)</span> 2273</li> 2274</ul> 2275<ul class='hierarchy'> 2276<li class='archivedate collapsed'> 2277<a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> 2278<span class='zippy'> 2279 2280 ►  2281 2282</span> 2283</a> 2284<a class='post-count-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2012/06/'> 2285June 2286</a> 2287<span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> 2288</li> 2289</ul> 2290<ul class='hierarchy'> 2291<li class='archivedate collapsed'> 2292<a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> 2293<span class='zippy'> 2294 2295 ►  2296 2297</span> 2298</a> 2299<a class='post-count-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2012/05/'> 2300May 2301</a> 2302<span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(7)</span> 2303</li> 2304</ul> 2305<ul class='hierarchy'> 2306<li class='archivedate collapsed'> 2307<a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> 2308<span class='zippy'> 2309 2310 ►  2311 2312</span> 2313</a> 2314<a class='post-count-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2012/04/'> 2315April 2316</a> 2317<span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> 2318</li> 2319</ul> 2320<ul class='hierarchy'> 2321<li class='archivedate collapsed'> 2322<a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> 2323<span class='zippy'> 2324 2325 ►  2326 2327</span> 2328</a> 2329<a class='post-count-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2012/03/'> 2330March 2331</a> 2332<span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(21)</span> 2333</li> 2334</ul> 2335<ul class='hierarchy'> 2336<li class='archivedate collapsed'> 2337<a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> 2338<span class='zippy'> 2339 2340 ►  2341 2342</span> 2343</a> 2344<a class='post-count-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2012/02/'> 2345February 2346</a> 2347<span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(15)</span> 2348</li> 2349</ul> 2350<ul class='hierarchy'> 2351<li class='archivedate collapsed'> 2352<a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> 2353<span class='zippy'> 2354 2355 ►  2356 2357</span> 2358</a> 2359<a class='post-count-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2012/01/'> 2360January 2361</a> 2362<span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(19)</span> 2363</li> 2364</ul> 2365</li> 2366</ul> 2367<ul class='hierarchy'> 2368<li class='archivedate collapsed'> 2369<a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> 2370<span class='zippy'> 2371 2372 ►  2373 2374</span> 2375</a> 2376<a class='post-count-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2011/'> 23772011 2378</a> 2379<span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(21)</span> 2380<ul class='hierarchy'> 2381<li class='archivedate collapsed'> 2382<a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> 2383<span class='zippy'> 2384 2385 ►  2386 2387</span> 2388</a> 2389<a class='post-count-link' href='https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/2011/12/'> 2390December 2391</a> 2392<span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(21)</span> 2393</li> 2394</ul> 2395</li> 2396</ul> 2397</div> 2398</div> 2399<div class='clear'></div> 2400</div> 2401</div><div class='widget Profile' data-version='1' id='Profile1'> 2402<h2>Contributors</h2> 2403<div class='widget-content'> 2404<ul> 2405<li><a class='profile-name-link g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/12883129934413015085' style='background-image: url(//www.blogger.com/img/logo-16.png);'>A. Brightwell</a></li> 2406<li><a class='profile-name-link g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/16471360474487390185' style='background-image: url(//www.blogger.com/img/logo-16.png);'>Elle and Webb</a></li> 2407</ul> 2408<div class='clear'></div> 2409</div> 2410</div><div class='widget HTML' data-version='1' id='HTML3'> 2411<div class='widget-content'>
2412<script type="text/javascript" src="//www.avantlink.com/affiliate_app_confirm.php?mode=js&authResponse=2048e0ea96db37401b43acdb6d88f973f0b68a7d"></script>
2412 2413 2414<a href="https://plus.google.com/111953524378776929413" rel="publisher">Google+</a> 2415</div> 2416<div class='clear'></div> 2417</div></div> 2418</aside> 2419</div> 2420</div> 2421</div> 2422<div style='clear: both'></div> 2423<!-- columns --> 2424</div> 2425<!-- main --> 2426</div> 2427</div> 2428<div class='main-cap-bottom cap-bottom'> 2429<div class='cap-left'></div> 2430<div class='cap-right'></div> 2431</div> 2432</div> 2433<footer> 2434<div class='footer-outer'> 2435<div class='footer-cap-top cap-top'> 2436<div class='cap-left'></div> 2437<div class='cap-right'></div> 2438</div> 2439<div class='fauxborder-left footer-fauxborder-left'> 2440<div class='fauxborder-right footer-fauxborder-right'></div> 2441<div class='region-inner footer-inner'> 2442<div class='foot no-items section' id='footer-1'></div> 2443<table border='0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' class='section-columns columns-2'> 2444<tbody> 2445<tr> 2446<td class='first columns-cell'> 2447<div class='foot no-items section' id='footer-2-1'></div> 2448</td> 2449<td class='columns-cell'> 2450<div class='foot no-items section' id='footer-2-2'></div> 2451</td> 2452</tr> 2453</tbody> 2454</table> 2455<!-- outside of the include in order to lock Attribution widget --> 2456<div class='foot section' id='footer-3' name='Footer'><div class='widget Attribution' data-version='1' id='Attribution1'> 2457<div class='widget-content' style='text-align: center;'> 2458Powered by <a href='https://www.blogger.com' target='_blank'>Blogger</a>. 2459</div> 2460<div class='clear'></div> 2461</div></div> 2462</div> 2463</div> 2464<div class='footer-cap-bottom cap-bottom'> 2465<div class='cap-left'></div> 2466<div class='cap-right'></div> 2467</div> 2468</div> 2469</footer> 2470<!-- content --> 2471</div> 2472</div> 2473<div class='content-cap-bottom cap-bottom'> 2474<div class='cap-left'></div> 2475<div class='cap-right'></div> 2476</div> 2477</div> 2478</div>
2479<script type='text/javascript'> 2480 window.setTimeout(function() { 2481 document.body.className = document.body.className.replace('loading', ''); 2482 }, 10); 2483 </script>
2483 2484
2485<script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.blogger.com/static/v1/widgets/3805468264-widgets.js"></script>
vendor: 1 bytes, line 2485
2485
2486<script type='text/javascript'> 2487window['__wavt'] = 'AAPvtVlTHoSew85NcBuHbpW_xGG2:1791521523859';_WidgetManager._Init('//www.blogger.com/rearrange?blogID\x3d6298488371355794080','//triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/','6298488371355794080'); 2488_WidgetManager._SetDataContext([{'name': 'blog', 'data': {'blogId': '6298488371355794080', 'title': 'Triathletes Journey: A \x22He said, She said\x22 reporting on races and events', 'url': 'https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/', 'canonicalUrl': 'http://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/', 'homepageUrl': 'https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/', 'searchUrl': 'https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/search', 'canonicalHomepageUrl': 'http://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/', 'blogspotFaviconUrl': 'https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/favicon.ico', 'bloggerUrl': 'https://www.blogger.com', 'hasCustomDomain': false, 'httpsEnabled': true, 'enabledCommentProfileImages': true, 'gPlusViewType': 'FILTERED_POSTMOD', 'adultContent': false, 'analyticsAccountNumber': '', 'encoding': 'UTF-8', 'locale': 'en', 'localeUnderscoreDelimited': 'en', 'languageDirection': 'ltr', 'isPrivate': false, 'isMobile': false, 'isMobileRequest': false, 'mobileClass': '', 'isPrivateBlog': false, 'isDynamicViewsAvailable': true, 'feedLinks': '\x3clink rel\x3d\x22alternate\x22 type\x3d\x22application/atom+xml\x22 title\x3d\x22Triathletes Journey: A \x26quot;He said, She said\x26quot; reporting on races and events - Atom\x22 href\x3d\x22https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default\x22 /\x3e\n\x3clink rel\x3d\x22alternate\x22 type\x3d\x22application/rss+xml\x22 title\x3d\x22Triathletes Journey: A \x26quot;He said, She said\x26quot; reporting on races and events - RSS\x22 href\x3d\x22https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt\x3drss\x22 /\x3e\n\x3clink rel\x3d\x22service.post\x22 type\x3d\x22application/atom+xml\x22 title\x3d\x22Triathletes Journey: A \x26quot;He said, She said\x26quot; reporting on races and events - Atom\x22 href\x3d\x22https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6298488371355794080/posts/default\x22 /\x3e\n', 'meTag': '', 'adsenseClientId': 'ca-pub-5854389354934660', 'adsenseHostId': 'ca-host-pub-1556223355139109', 'adsenseHasAds': false, 'adsenseAutoAds': false, 'boqCommentIframeForm': true, 'loginRedirectParam': '', 'view': '', 'dynamicViewsCommentsSrc': '//www.blogblog.com/dynamicviews/4224c15c4e7c9321/js/comments.js', 'dynamicViewsScriptSrc': '//www.blogblog.com/dynamicviews/0de680cd2a80ce27', 'plusOneApiSrc': 'https://apis.google.com/js/platform.js', 'disableGComments': true, 'interstitialAccepted': false, 'sharing': {'platforms': [{'name': 'Get link', 'key': 'link', 'shareMessage': 'Get link', 'target': ''}, {'name': 'Facebook', 'key': 'facebook', 'shareMessage': 'Share to Facebook', 'target': 'facebook'}, {'name': 'BlogThis!', 'key': 'blogThis', 'shareMessage': 'BlogThis!', 'target': 'blog'}, {'name': 'X', 'key': 'twitter', 'shareMessage': 'Share to X', 'target': 'twitter'}, {'name': 'Pinterest', 'key': 'pinterest', 'shareMessage': 'Share to Pinterest', 'target': 'pinterest'}, {'name': 'Email', 'key': 'email', 'shareMessage': 'Email', 'target': 'email'}], 'disableGooglePlus': true, 'googlePlusShareButtonWidth': 0, 'googlePlusBootstrap': '\x3cscript type\x3d\x22text/javascript\x22\x3ewindow.___gcfg \x3d {\x27lang\x27: \x27en\x27};\x3c/script\x3e'}
2488, 'hasCustomJumpLinkMessage': false, 'jumpLinkMessage': 'Read more', 'pageType': 'index', 'pageName': '', 'pageTitle': 'Triathletes Journey: A \x22He said, She said\x22 reporting on races and events'}}, {'name': 'features', 'data': {}}, {'name': 'messages', 'data': {'edit': 'Edit', 'linkCopiedToClipboard': 'Link copied to clipboard!', 'ok': 'Ok', 'postLink': 'Post Link'}}, {'name': 'template', 'data': {'isResponsive': false, 'isAlternateRendering': false, 'isCustom': false}}, {'name': 'view', 'data': {'classic': {'name': 'classic', 'url': '?view\x3dclassic'}, 'flipcard': {'name': 'flipcard', 'url': '?view\x3dflipcard'}, 'magazine': {'name': 'magazine', 'url': '?view\x3dmagazine'}, 'mosaic': {'name': 'mosaic', 'url': '?view\x3dmosaic'}, 'sidebar': {'name': 'sidebar', 'url': '?view\x3dsidebar'}, 'snapshot': {'name': 'snapshot', 'url': '?view\x3dsnapshot'}, 'timeslide': {'name': 'timeslide', 'url': '?view\x3dtimeslide'}, 'isMobile': false, 'title': 'Triathletes Journey: A \x22He said, She said\x22 reporting on races and events', 'description': '', 'url': 'https://triathletesjourney.blogspot.com/', 'type': 'feed', 'isSingleItem': false, 'isMultipleItems': true, 'isError': false, 'isPage': false, 'isPost': false, 'isHomepage': true, 'isArchive': false, 'isLabelSearch': false}}]); 2489_WidgetManager._RegisterWidget('_NavbarView', new _WidgetInfo('Navbar1', 'navbar', document.getElementById('Navbar1'), {}, 'displayModeFull')); 2490_WidgetManager._RegisterWidget('_HeaderView', new _WidgetInfo('Header1', 'header', document.getElementById('Header1'), {}, 'displayModeFull')); 2491_WidgetManager._RegisterWidget('_BlogView', new _WidgetInfo('Blog1', 'main', document.getElementById('Blog1'), {'cmtInteractionsEnabled': false, 'lightboxEnabled': true, 'lightboxModuleUrl': 'https://www.blogger.com/static/v1/jsbin/523436852-lbx.js', 'lightboxCssUrl': 'https://www.blogger.com/static/v1/v-css/828616780-lightbox_bundle.css'}, 'displayModeFull')); 2492_WidgetManager._RegisterWidget('_BlogSearchView', new _WidgetInfo('BlogSearch1', 'sidebar-right-1', document.getElementById('BlogSearch1'), {}, 'displayModeFull')); 2493_WidgetManager._RegisterWidget('_SubscribeView', new _WidgetInfo('Subscribe1', 'sidebar-right-1', document.getElementById('Subscribe1'), {}, 'displayModeFull')); 2494_WidgetManager._RegisterWidget('_FollowersView', new _WidgetInfo('Followers1', 'sidebar-right-1', document.getElementById('Followers1'), {}, 'displayModeFull')); 2495_WidgetManager._RegisterWidget('_HTMLView', new _WidgetInfo('HTML5', 'sidebar-right-1', document.getElementById('HTML5'), {}, 'displayModeFull')); 2496_WidgetManager._RegisterWidget('_HTMLView', new _WidgetInfo('HTML2', 'sidebar-right-1', document.getElementById('HTML2'), {}, 'displayModeFull')); 2497_WidgetManager._RegisterWidget('_HTMLView', new _WidgetInfo('HTML4', 'sidebar-right-1', document.getElementById('HTML4'), {}, 'displayModeFull')); 2498_WidgetManager._RegisterWidget('_HTMLView', new _WidgetInfo('HTML1', 'sidebar-right-1', document.getElementById('HTML1'), {}, 'displayModeFull')); 2499_WidgetManager._RegisterWidget('_BlogArchiveView', new _WidgetInfo('BlogArchive1', 'sidebar-right-1', document.getElementById('BlogArchive1'), {'languageDirection': 'ltr', 'loadingMessage': 'Loading\x26hellip;'}, 'displayModeFull')); 2500_WidgetManager._RegisterWidget('_ProfileView', new _WidgetInfo('Profile1', 'sidebar-right-1', document.getElementById('Profile1'), {}, 'displayModeFull')); 2501_WidgetManager._RegisterWidget('_HTMLView', new _WidgetInfo('HTML3', 'sidebar-right-1', document.getElementById('HTML3'), {}, 'displayModeFull')); 2502_WidgetManager._RegisterWidget('_AttributionView', new _WidgetInfo('Attribution1', 'footer-3', document.getElementById('Attribution1'), {}, 'displayModeFull')); 2503</script>
2503 2504</body> 2505</html>
Line numbers count LF bytes from the start of the resource, as the search results do. Vendor segments are library code the classifier recognised; they are stored but not indexed. Bytes are shown as Latin1 characters, one per byte.