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2009 Ice Breaker Tri

Raced in the 2009 Ice Breaker triathlon at Lake Folsom last week.  They haven't posted the splits yet, but overall I improved my time from my last Ice Breaker (2007) by a little over 12 minutes, from 1:49:17 to 1:37:07. 

Without seeing the splits it's tough to know exactly where the improvements  came, but I think I was able to upgrade my swim from pathetic to just quite lame, my bike from clueless to actually pretty decent and my run from pretty good to a bit better than pretty good.

My transitions were a bit slower this year.  I arrived late at the setup in the morning and had a very cramped transition spot, and frankly just didn't have it together for my transitions.

A few other thoughts on this race.  With all the twists and turns on the road course, I definitely think a road bike is the way to go on this race (over a tri bike).  I also bought a Fit2Race wetsuit and it was really, really nice and came right off without any struggle.

It was beautiful day and a really fun race.  Bambi was there at every turn with big cheer :-)

I'll post the splits and a bit more data when they're published on the TBF racing site.  If I can make it back next year, I'd like to try to fix the swimming, tighten the transitions and see if I can break 1:30:00.

Splits Update:

Swim: 336 out of 394

Bike: 124 out of 394

Run: 38 out of 394

Overall moved from the 50th percentile in 2007 to the 28th percentile in 2009.  So, pretty happy.  Shooting for 1:29:30 in 2010.

Vegetable Garden 4-dux

Once again we're back trying our hand at a bit of backyard farming.  This year Marcus and I recruited Tanner into the mix.  We've also made a dramatic technological advance in that our planter box is irrigated.  This development should eliminate the primary cause of previous crop failures, an almost irresponsible lack of watering.

This said, our new planter box isn't without it's own challenges.  It appears we have a raccoon with a taste for freshly planted seeds, who single-handedly dug up what must of been half our seeds the night of our primary planting. 

The good news is we're already seeing a few sunflowers, pumpkins, peas and carrots poking through - so we should still have a successful year.   As always, we'll keep you posted on any major developments.