I'm torn

between wanting winter to end so that running and cycling are fun again and wanting it to stretch out a bit longer now that we've discovered skiing/snowboarding. "They" say that spring skiing is the best, so I'll just have to wait and see. 

My ironman training volume has been pretty high for a first timer this early in the season, I put in 8, 9, 12.5 and 11.5 hour weeks in February, and fortunately have been injury free, although today the inside of my right kneecap is tender. 

I pulled a Colin (I can't find the post where he talked about doing it, but he did) and cut the steerer on my road bike too short on Saturday. $250 mistake right there, perhaps offset by whatever I can get on ebay for a used custom painted fork with a short 1" diameter steerer, which isn't much I'm sure.

Two more days in New England and then we make our more-or-less annual trip to Puerto Rico. It sucks there - you shouldn't go. I'm not going to have any problem whatsoever relaxing and just doing nothing. People who can't relax when they are away from their daily routine don't have enough stress to begin with... and good for them. I love my job, kids, and home/family life but they boil up their fair share of angst so it's time to move the circus to the Caribbean and see how that works out. If I could get ride of just one of those three things, or better just the stress associated with one of them, I'd be high as a kite.

If the market is bad enough there may be some product* down there we will look at. 

* listening to NPR Saturday while cutting my steerer too short they had a lengthy segment about two guys who were buying up foreclosed houses in Norther NJ and they kept referring to the homes as "product." My high school girlfriend was the first one I ever heard using that word as a pronoun to represent something specific rather than just saying what she was talking about. She referred to her hair spray as product. In this case I use the term product to refer to real estate, not hair spray.