First Beach Day

Met the family down at Eastern Point Beach today. Although the weather has been spotty this, we got a pretty nice beach day this afternoon. I yanked this awesome photo from someone's flickr page. Obviously it does not reflect today's weather, but it was by far the coolest photo I found by googling 'eastern point beach groton' - so it stays. The girls had a great time - Julia even started her first sea-shell collection.

I managed about 2.5 miles running after leaving work to meet them - to go with a sweltering 5.5 mile loop yesterday and a 3.1 miler along the Mystic river on Wednesday night. Mostly due to weather, I only managed 1 bike this week - but all told it's about 16 miles running and just under 5 eq.miles on the bike - about 20.5 total. I'll try and get an early start Sunday for next week - since Thursday and Friday'll be travel days.

Damn Jellies!

Hit Eastern Point Beach again today at lunch: teeming with jelly fish. Pretty big ones by our standards (not as big as shown), about the size of a honey dew melon - and lots of them. I made it through 4 lengths with just my arms getting stung - but then my chin/chest got nailed at the turn around between lengths 4 and 5. I finished up quick (lots of breast stroke so that I could see what was coming) then headed in. I'll try and do the postponed brick on Saturday - otherwise I'll just have to live with it and make certain I get 2 rides in next week.

Eastern Point Swim

Today I did a run/swim down at Eastern Point Beach in Groton. Another warm and muggy day here. The water felt very good and there were a number of other swimmers out today. Mileage: 3.2 miles run, 0.4 in the water (~2.4 eq. miles). I'm hoping to get over to the Nick Bottone Track Mile tomorrow night - so I may not do anything special tomorrow. If I can't make that - then I may try to duplicate last Friday's Brick workout after the kids are in bed.