Well the Loggerhead Triathlon is upon us. Saturday morning is the day, Jupiter is the place :) Our coach is using this as a tune-up for our bigger event, The Chicago Triathlon, in 3 weeks! Excited to say that we now have our plane tickets for Chicago, we just need to sort out some lodging details and we'll be good to go. My daughter is so excited about going on another trip!
So I had good intentions of working out today, but my day has just completely slipped by me. I did however treat myself to a new toy, you know how us triathletes (don't you just love that) love our little gadgets! Well I got a Polar F6 heart rate monitor. It's pink :) Its also water resistant to 50m, not waterproof though. I can use it for pool swimming, but should avoid snorkeling with it, go figure. Anyways it's pretty cool because I can program in my height, weight, age & gender, so it will actually calculate my calorie burn for me. I put it on just over 2 hours ago and I have just been puttering around the house and ran a couple errands and I have burned a whopping 291 calories. I just love working out. As I sit here and type this, my heart rate is only 63, awesome :) Of course not to awesome a calorie burn, but thats ok. I want to find my resting heart rate for when I am sleeping, so it should be quite interesting sleeping with that band around me. yeah...
So tomorrow afternoon we have packet pickup and the expo for saturday's race. I can't wait to see my cool shirts, as I have never done loggerhead before and I know they always have great shirts. Why else would I race right? We do it for the swag, I know. So triathlon season is sadly coming to an end in about 6 weeks and we will soon be into running season.

My remaining race wish list for the year:
8/17 - Singer Island Sprint Tri (this is a maybe, might do fat-tire since I won't have my bike, its being shipped out next week to chicago)
8/24 - Accenture Chicago International Distance Tri
9/7 - Tropical Tri (Sprint)
9/21 - Miami SS Triathlon
10/12 - Wellington Horse Country 10 miler or Disney's Race for the Taste 10k, hmmm
10/19 - Race the Troops Sprint Tri @ Tradewinds
10/26 - Either Space Coast Century Ride
11/9 - Miami Man International Tri
11/16 - 13.1 Fort Lauderdale ??
11/27 - Run for the Pies 4 miler
12/7 - Marathon of the Palm Beaches 1/2 Marathon
12/7 - Kids In Distress Inlet Challenge Cycle Ride - Metric Century


Ok off to crash now, can hear the thunder rolling in outside :(