Where Am I?

Where Am I?

Narrowing down the lodging options for Kona and it has been pretty easy so far. Channie knows someone who vacations in the Hawaiian Islands and they have always had a lot of good luck with www.vrbo.com which stands for vacation rental by owner. Basically it is a service by which you can see hundreds of rental properties owned by private parties. So far it seems like the way to go. The place we are looking at is a 2 bedroom house with full kitchen, Jacuzzi, plus a lot more including a 1.25 acre yard and the price puts us around $150/nt which is pretty reasonable in my opinion. Plus we can do a lot of cooking at our place while we are there rather than blow all of our moolah at the local restaurants. Although we will no doubt enjoy the local fare.

On the training front, I am plugging away at my program and I am seeing some progress which is exciting. Although maintaining this consistency for the next 5 months is not going to be easy. I have a couple of weeks until my first Triathlon of the season which is the first of three consecutive weekends of triathlons so I am going to have to have a mini-taper a step out of my training plan briefly. In the end the same effort will be there so I am not worried that there will be any drop off. I will just have to jump right back on the end of June and try to continue as if I didn’t miss anything. Then comes the long stretch from the 17th of June until race day where I don’t have any races planned. That is a long time without a little competition to keep my head into it. I might pick up a handful of road races (longer distance ones) and maybe get in on the Big Creek Triathlon. There is another Olympic distance triathlon called the Whaletown Tri in Iowa the weekend before Big Creek which would be a nice late season tune-up race but it is still two months before Kona.