2nd Ever Kuban Super Sprint Triathlon

After feedback from the participants and judges from the first Super Sprint Triathlon, the course was made longer, safer, and most importantly: better. The Kuban Super Sprint Triathlon now covers a combined distance of 7 miles. A .25 mile swim followed by a 5.75 mile bike ride followed by a 1 mile run. The next race will be held Saturday Aug. 7th and will be open to all-comers. If we have too many people it will be held in waves, otherwise it will be a pure race to the finish.

These super sprints are the final push in my training for the Sports Barn Sprint Triathlon that is now a mere 12 days away.

UPDATE: I took the new course for a spin today and the following was my time breakdown.

.25 Mile Swim Time: 11:05
Transition: 7:50 (bike troubles)
5.75 Mile Bike Time: 27:49
Transition: 3:50
1 Mile Run Time: 10:04
Total Time: 56:45
(Estimated Full Race @ Pace: 1:22:30)

Train Like A Navy Seal

My brother found the pre-Seal School training regiment online. I went through and create a combined training schedule from it. I like this quote from the Seal site "Getting in shape for the world class Navy SEALs is no walk in the park. However, if you can push yourself to the limit, then the rewards will be great!" Yes like being able to run 4 miles in army boots in under 30 minutes — these aren't your Nike Zoom Maxes or being able swim 2 miles in the ocean in under 75 minutes. My favorite is the 5.5 mile ocean swim to completion (with fins). Great rewards INDEED.

Prada Tool-bag

For the man that has everything – except me because I don’t want one (my b-day is coming up) – you can get them this prada bag. While a nice thought, at $700 i think most men will wonder where the remote for it is.

Memory Card Hell Week

Put under the most extreme conditions, most memory cards did quite well. Surviving coffee swims and washing machine spins the cards survived under what i would term normal abuse. When extreme abuse was given the cards did -at least mostly- fail. So remember don’t nail your memory card to a tree. While it keeps you from losing it, you will probably lose your the data stored on it. ;)