Time for another check in for me. Since my 70.3 in June I've been trying to get focused on letting my sciatica issue clear and work on my cycling. So, I've been riding pretty much 5-6 days a week and working on core and flexibility to give the sciatica a rest. I love it, been road cycling and mountain biking for the most part. I love the mountain bike.

Well, I was contemplating skipping my lunchtime ride and subing it into an evening ride, until I looked outside and saw that it will be rather rough with a large storm front building and coming in out general direction.

After a long cold winter, and wet spring, it's finally hot in Wisconsin. Too hot. I've always had problems with heat. My body really has a hard time. My face turns purple, my stomach gets sluggish, my skin gets salty.

Like many - for some reason, I'm challenged when it comes to counting laps in the pool. After one of the last threads, I decided to try just counting push-offs. It actually worked great - it was very easy to remember the number I was on at the time. I just had to workout how many push-offs I needed to make for the intervals I was doing. To tri or not to tri - that's not a question at all!

While I was doing my swim workout today (Quick side note - I did a swim, then a bike - can we call that a "swike?") in the midst of my intervals, I noticed that my obliques were really working hard. Add to that - I was swimming PR times. It seemed I figured out how to engage my core muscles to pull with. Felt like it was something very good - curious which lead to which. To tri or not to tri - that's not a question at all!

So this is my first year of doing anything that includes running and I'm wondering if I am setting myself up for disaster or injury based on the timing of my events. I am doing my first tri this weekend which is an Oly distance and then doing another the end of August. And during the training for the second one I am also going to start training for a half marathon I want to do in Oct.

The family and I are going to be in Cape May, NJ in the beginning of August for a vacation. Anyone else going to be somewhat near there for some training rides/runs/swims? We took the same vacation there last year and the area's really great. Would love to hook up with some other trifuelers for some training. To tri or not to tri - that's not a question at all!

I am currently training for a HIM in September. I usually do three workouts per sport every week plus the occasional brick. I must travel on business for a week at a time to a place where I can only run. Should I forget about swimming and riding and try to improve my running? I can't lose the idea that I will lose all my fitness for everything else. Any ideas?

I have read a few people touch on this already, but how much sleep is everyone getting? Do you augment your sleep depending on the type of training you do? SPD WWW.SDTRIBUDDHA.BLOGSPOT.COM

Hey everybody. Just wanted to run an idea by you and see what you think. A few of us here in Orange County, CA are very excited and are preparing to open a gym called Triathica that is strictly dedicated to the sport of triathlon.