No Black Fly Tri for us

Having a good time up here. Our training plan hasn't exactly played out like we had hoped but when it's 90-100 degrees out I'm not going to complain about missed workouts. Heck it's even been difficult to sleep in this heat.
Today I spent another 3-4 hours riding on the ATV pulling the deck mower around the fields. It was 95-100 degrees out. I'm still not finished with the mowing. It's a big job but it's got to be done otherwise the fields become a forest. I just wish I had more time to hang out up here once the work was done. (not that the work is ever done...)
After I finished mowing for the day, I had to get a 5 mile run in. So Genine drove to the beach, I ran to the beach with a detour into Alexandria. (a little out an back). The majority of the run was in full sun. I ran with one of those hand held bottles. I'm not sure that I prefer that over the fuel belt. We didn't bring the fuel belt tho'. So I guess I'm going to be running with it again on Saturday and Sunday. Anyhow, I couldn't have been more thrilled to have a lake at the end of my run. I'm not sure it's cold enough for ice therapy at this point but Newfound Lake never looked better. (it was only 5 miles!!!)

So I started thinking about Sunday's 10 miler. There are a few places around here where the water is ALWAYS cold. So when I got back to the house I dialed up the map to see how far Sculptured Rocks is from the house. Just over 10 miles. Close enough! I think that's going to be my Sunday 10 miler. I'll have to check to see if the General Store in Hebron is open on Sunday. I have a feeling I'll need to buy something to drink at that point. Otherwise, I'll have to ask Genine to drive out a bit earlier to do a bottle hand off. Then I'll meet everyone at Sculptured Rocks. If I remember I'll take a thermometer.

Ah yes, I said Everyone. Turns out Jason and Anne will be driving down from Maine for the weekend. Also my brother and family will be here. So as the title of the post says. No Black Fly Tri for us. Not a big deal, I'd much rather visit with everyone than race this weekend. We will race that event some other time.

Here is a bit of interesting news about the Black Fly Tri this weekend. I'm not sure if I posted about their hands on a handle bar competition. They were selling raffle tickets for a chance to win a Tri Bike and a bunch of other stuff, to raise money for charity. The competition was going to be one of those, who can stand holding onto a fence the longest, without doing deep knee bends and other things like that. Well it turns out nobody wanted to do that to win all the gear. So they ended up turning it into a standard raffle. I guess triathletes aren't as crazy as I thought!