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Recovery week over. Much rest was taken and numerous stages of le Tour were watched. May the Gods smile on the engin-nerd who created the idea for TiVo. Alas, back to the weekly grind.

I did skip out on the Swim for the Dolphins & the Spring Lake swim over the weekend. The weather looked if-fy at the time we needed to head to the shore. The races were held, but we missed out. Perhaps next year. Next big open-water swim will probably be the September Splash — 2-mile open water swim. Only took 40 minutes last year, hoping to get under 40 this year.

The week has started off okay. Rest Monday morning, then a 5,000 yard after work swim. 1,500s are boring and the hardest part is not losing count. There were some breaks talking to Bruce who is getting ready for Lake Placid this weekend. He is going to rock that course, but I don't envy him for having to race with those hills up in Lake Placid. I'll take Florida, thank you very much. Also ran into Veronique who I've not seen in a while... and now I know why. Congrats to her and Joe.

On tap for today was a 140 minute run and another swim. With the weather settling in to the 3Hs of summer. (For those of you not familiar with the east coast in the summer time: Hazy, Hot, and Humid.) After the 90-minute run on Saturday what literally drained me of both energy and fluids I thought to myself, "self, run in the morning!" Yea, that was the tickets...

Okay, so getting up at 4:15 in the morning to run for 140 mintues sucks. It was still humid — weather man was claiming near 90% — but without the sun — which didn't show up until about 40 minutes into the run — it was cooler. Lots of deer out on hill side in the morning.

So, now that I've lived through the run all I need to do is make it untill 5:00 when I can drive to the pool and get in the 4,000 yard technique swim. Ummmmmm, drills. I think it is going to plenty hard to stay awake around 2:00PM.