Back from our excellent vacation in Italy and right into my training plan. The season will be more of a preparation for next season, but will be fun nevertheless. I will be starting the season off with a min-sprint at the Independence Triathlon at Nockamixon on the first weekend. It is pretty short but should …
May 31
Amalfi Coast Day 10-Heading to Naples
After another great breakfast at Hotel Savoia, we packed up our stuff and then headed down into Sorrento for some last minute souvenirs and, of course, another gelato. While we enjoyed our gelato’s it started down-pouring and the shop instantly filled with people. We waited out the rain for 10 minutes and headed back to …
May 27
New Sprockets Dieter!
I am a huge Mike Myers and SNL fan, so whenever I can stick references to that in I am all over that. Anyway, before heading on vacation, I decided to change up the crankset on my tri bike to a compact(50T/34T). There are a lot of hills on most of the courses I ride …
May 24
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May 23
Amalfi Coast Day 9-Valle dell Furriere…Third Time is A Charm!
Denise came up with the great idea during our great breakfast at Hotel Savoia. We would take the SITA bus back to Amalfi, have lunch and then do the Valle Dell Ferriere hike that we missed twice before. It proved to be the ultimate plan. The SIAT Bus from Sorrento was easily boarded and we …
May 23
Amalfi Coast Day 8-Down to Sorrento
After enjoying our makeshift breakfast of croissant-looking rolls, bananas and yogurt, we loaded up our packs again and started on our way down to Sorrento. We hiked through back streets to the neighboring town of Colli di Fontalle. Then we made our way down into Sorrento through some back dirt roads. We made one wrong …
May 21
Amalfi Coast Day 7-Positano to Colli di San Pietro
Today we start our longest hike with full packs. We started off with a hike up out of Positano climbing 2500 ft less than one hour. The cathedral of Santa Della Maria Castellano sits in the small village at the top of our climb. The church wasn’t very exciting, but the view was nice. By …
May 20
Amalfi Coast Day 6-Positano and Open Water Swimming in the Med
Today was our first full day in Positano and we decided to take easy and explore the town a bit. Positano is situated on a ravine in the cliffs, so walking around town is not as easy as it sounds. It is more up and down steps all day. We had a nice breakfast at …
May 20
Amalfi Coast Day 5-Path Of The Gods
Today we planned to take a bus from Praiano over to Amalfi, then another bus to Bomerano where would start our hike to Positano. We packed up early had breakfast and got up to the bus by 9AM. We waited for atleast an hour for the 9:15am bus but it never came. A bus did …
May 18
Amalfi Coast Day 4-Valle Della Furriere…Take 2?
Today the plan was to take the Sita bus back to Amalfi, then catch another bus up to Minuta/Scala and do the Valle Della Furriere hike we missed the other day. Well the Sita bus, which runs along the Amalfi Coast, is never on time if it shows up at all. When it does show …