Trial by fire

So it's a winter wonderland outside today and I decide to hop on my trainer and watch some Olympic recaps. Yay! I can't wait! I love my new trainer. Now, I'm sure we've all experienced this problem at one point while cycling. Gears skipping. Bloody hell! How fricking annoying is that eh?

So I think to myself, HEY I took the N00B maintenance course, I can fix this! Well, to make a long story short I really FUBARED the rear derailleur settings on my Caliente and spent the better part of the afternoon tinkering with the High/Low gear limits and fine tuning all the settings. It took me awhile but I think I finally got it right!

I did a timed 500m swim first thing this morning. Man, my goggles were giving me some grief though, I kept getting water leaking in so I had to stop a few times to adjust them. I stayed away from doing flip turns too and posted a time of 10 min 15 sec. I guess that's not too bad considering I just started swimming 4 weeks ago. I was just over 4 min after 250 and really faded during the last half. I need to start working on my endurance now. Fun swim though.