Blogger troubles, camping, Fly by night

Im sick of trying to comment on someones page and it takes me back to sign in. I am signed in!!! So sorry for not being able to comment on some of your pages! It seems like its happening only with the word identification ones. All others seem to post. Blogger, please fix this glitch! Anyone else having a problem?/

Tomorrow we are going CAMPING!!!! Yes, I get excited when I go camping. I am talking camping too. No electricity, just running water and a tent. We make all our food on a campfire too. My honey brings a fishing pole and tries to fish as well. Its really quite relaxing. Im hoping the weather will cease to say there is rain in the forecast. If there is our tent is waterproofed anyways.

We are camping up in Watkins Glen State Park. The views are fabulous!!!
 

I love falls, they are so beautiful!! Nature is so beautiful isn't it?!!

This is what Ill be racing on....AT NIGHT!!!

We are camping up at the State park because...drum roll please.....I am doing the Fly By Night Duathlon!!! Im so excited! I loved this race last year. You get to race on a international speedway! How cool is that?!!

This is a Formula 1 duathlon which is a 1.8 mile run, 10.2 mile bike, 1.8 mile run, 10.2 mile bike and a 1.8 mile run. So far there are only 53 individual females registered for the event (12 of which are in my age group). Of course there are 130 men signed up.

Last year I was 4th in my AG. Lets see if I can top that this year!!

Happy and Safe training!

Saturday Ramblings

These weeks are flying by!! I wish I could press the pause button and just stay right in these moments forever.

In 2 weeks from TODAY I will be doing my first Duathlon of the Season!! I am excited and a bit nervous at the same time. I am heading down to Watkins Glenn, NY for the Fly by Night Duathlon. My honey and I decided to pitch a tent at Watkins Glenn State Park for the night. Way cheaper than a hotel! Anyways, we are going down to watch the cars race and then we are on the track racing in the opposite direction!! I was amazed last year at how steep one of the hills are on the back side of the track! I would've never guessed it had I not biked it myself! Last year I was 4th in my age group. This year Im hoping to do a little better than that.

My Garmin 305 just crapped the bed this morning before my hour and 30min bike ride! I stole the Garmin from my honey as I had the 405 and absolutely hated it! I would get it all screwed up becase it was touch bevel. So I ended up sweating all over his and now it went to Garmin Heaven. I cannot get the darn thing to power up. We've only had it for 3 years!

I went by feel on my bike this morning. I think I averaged a little slower than I would if I had my Garmin with me. I was supposed to be in Zone 2 which is hovering around 16-18mph for me. Overall I think I did pretty well Covering 24.1 miles in the timeframe. Boy did I want to hammer it something fierce!! We went out to where the Syracuse Iron Girl course is and this course always makes me think of race day and passing a billion people on my bike! It was so fun and liberating last year!! (I ave a 22.2 mph speed on the bike leg last year!!)

I didn't do so hot on my run today. It was sticking, muggy outside and I just couldn't keep my heart rate down!!! Im getting very frustrated with this! I might as well just speed walk for Pete's freaking sake!! I slow down, feel like Im getting lower on the heartrate, feel good running and Im 157...need to be 145-155 today. Im going MAD!

I've been looking at getting the Garmin 310xt as my honey can get me a discount! Cross the fingers on that one!!