Check out skinnyski.com for some great photos of the Time Trial I did yesterday afternoon.

This was the second time I did the TT this fall and I was happy to be able to improve my time by 3 seconds from 2 weeks ago… not a lot but significant especially since it was colder(slower rollerski speed) and there was a good stiff wind.  My overall time was 22:23 for a 10k… first 5k was 11:20 and second 5k  was 11:03.  I have been trying very hard to negative split races I compete in…. your time is almost always faster if you don’t go out too hard and blow up.

I’ve attached 2 photos I got from Bruce Adelsman’s website…thanks for taking great pics!

…maybe Grant’s two favorite things… at least after Mommy.  We got Grant a new toy this past week and he loved it.  A little kid’s kitchen… hopefully he grows up and learns to cook better than his old man.  Also, Grant enjoyed his first Halloween this year and we dressed him up as a little penguin.  He achieved the goal I set for him… get Dad lots of candy.  My wife knows I don’t need that stuff so to my objection, much of the candy was given away to hungry little monsters!

This past week has been a little tough on the training side of things.  I started out the week on the backside of a cold.  Monday I was still a little under-the-weather but Tuesday I decided I felt good enough to attempt intervals with Piotr’s training group (gotraining.us).  This was not such a good idea and promptly brought me back to sickness.  I squeaked out a workout with Dave Nelson on Wednesday but Thurs/Fri I spent the day doing nothing.  I am feeling good today so I may try to get in some easy training.  It is always tough to take time off from training, especially this time of year, but one extra day off is much better than training one day too many…  wish I understood this better.