Homemade Clif Bars (Round 2)

Week 20 is finally here. In 6 days, what I've been training, spending most of my money and thinking of for the past 19 weeks will be taking place. The Rohto Ironman 70.3 Hawaii (Honu). I'm pretty excited to be doing it but at the same time feeling really stressed/nervous about the whole ordeal. I know I should view this as practice for next years race (Achilles tendon issue set me way back on my running ability) and try to relax and have fun. Oh,...

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Honolulu Triathlon 2011 Recap

I have to admit, I'm still new to this blogging thing so I tend to forget things essential to blogging. A camera. So this weekend was the 8th annual Honolulu Triathlon International Festival of Sports. It's a pretty big event with the Olympic and sprint distance triathlons, junior, youth and kids triathlons, sprint duathlon, open water swim, and a road race all on one day. I give them credit for holding such a huge event with races all going on at  the same time. So Saturday was packet pick up, body marking and bike drop off. This day before...

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Rainy Friday

Sadly I have no reviews or recipes to share with you today. With all the crappy weather, I've been feeling lazy and unmotivated to do anything else besides train. However, one I do have a random post to share. So one day while listing to random tracks on 8tracks.com, this particular song caught my ear. You and Me by Penny and the Quarters.    Wondering what else they had I decided to look them up. Apparently the group "Penny and the Quarters" was a vocal group from the 1970's. Their song, "You and Me" never got released but out somehow...

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K-Swiss Blade Light Run

After a long wait, I finally received my K-Swiss Blade Light Runs (BLR) in the mail the other day. My first thought after picking up was "Wow, these look better in person than online". My current shoe is the K-Swiss K-Ona C, however they are pretty hard to find in my area. If you're wondering what the "C" stands for, I was told that it stands for "Cushion" while the "S" stands for "Stability" for the other model. Like the K-Ona, the BLR provides...

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Vanilla Bean Brownie Ice Cream

What a way to start a week. Thunder and lightning, torrential downpours, flooding and waterspouts! Yesterday after coming home from work I decided to do some light jogging at the park. I looking forward since injuring my Achilles almost 3 months ago. Well, after jogging for about 10 seconds, it started to storm. So much for running and I minus well cross off swimming too. But wait! I live in town, Ala Moana beach park only a few miles away. After...

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Fried Polenta

According to the weather man, we were supposed to have some rainy weather this past weekend. I was definitely not looking forward to riding on the trainer for 3.5hrs. I don't really remember what I did on Saturday besides cooking and it was a decent day. So much for rain. For all of you that don't live on Oahu, biking here sucks. You have bike lanes that disappear, bike lane signs but no bike lane and drivers that just don't give a shit if you're...

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