Jam truckload into a wheelbarrow

by Duf Anything and Everything

This weekend is going to be consumed mostly by our trip up to Boca Grande to participate in another sprint triathlon.  We are heading out Saturday evening and we won’t get back until early Sunday afternoon.  Mom was nice enough to offer to dog sit again in our absence.

The tri means I have to get a bunch of stuff done in a compressed amount of time. One of the things I would love to do is get my new HDTV antenna set up although I am not sure I will be able to work it in.

I have some complications to work out with the antenna install.  When I had an antenna on the house when it was first built in 2001 installation was pretty easy.  However this time around I now have gutter going around almost the entire roof line meaning I can’t easily secure the mast to edge of the roof.  I will either have to attach it to the front left of the house where there is still bare roof line or attach the mast to the concrete wall via some sort of long brace and Tapcons.

At some point I need to work in earnest on collecting stuff for the yard sale.  Since the clocks change this weekend I will have no daylight after work to get anything done outside during the week. Add in knocking out normal household chores, getting stuff packed and ready for the triathlon and you come up with yet another weekend that will fly by.

Last night I fired up my justin.tv channel to record my first weighted pull up attempts in months.  I was able to knock out two dead hang reps with the full 50 pound vest on.  If I hung a bit longer I may have been able to squeeze out a third.  If I can get up to 6 or 7 reps I am pretty sure victory in the pull up challenge would be a lock.

I have a couple goals for the triathlon. First is to survive what is sure to be an uncomfortable swim since the air temp is forecast to be in the low to mid 50’s.  Second, cut down on my transition times from the Miami event which were dreadfully long.  I am hoping just cleaning up the transition will allow me to shave a few minutes off the 1:37 and change time I posted my first time out.