Gone for a While

OK last time I blogged I was in a hotel room in Mason City in the middle of a blizzard, 6 months later I'm in a hotel room in Cedar Rapids with perfect weather out. My summer was fun, but has proved to be dissapointing as far as races go. The first 1/2 of the year was devoted to training for the Baja 70.3 at my sisters house, literally in Ensenada Mexico. I was in good shape for this, but flatted on the bike, froze on the swim, and had the run discounted due to route issues. I had run my best ever 1/2 marathon time as well. Still travelling to Mexico with My wife and the half pint was alot of fun and was far more rewarding than even a good race may have been. well OK maybe not a really good race, but combined with seeing my sister it was as good as anything above a 5 hour half.

The rest of the summer the plan was to take it easy and concentrate on the Twin Cities Marathon. I did a few shorter Triathlons which demonstrated how much I need to work on swiming better. I have now injured my knee from over training. Oops, after a summer that started with flats in every race I suppose it's only logical my knee flatted during what should be my peak training. I am taking it easy and hope to be running again soon, but it seems like my dads family best time of 3.19 will survive another challenge.

I also found ture love this year, I have attached a photo of the object of my affections, no doubt you will see why.

Let's hope for a snowy winter to make up for this summer.

Beer of the blog - Not sure what the best beer I have had since last posting so I will stick to the old theory of the best beer is the one in front of you. In my case that is Krusovice Schwarzbier. The disturbing thing about this is the ingredients: Malt, hops, Water and Artificial Sweetener???? Now my question is should that be yeast? or is it Caramel that is used for coloring,? which seems likely given the flavor actually but in which case where is the yeast? Beer is an average dark Lager, nice but nothing special, the perfect summary of my summer races really.