Welcome back Colby!

I don't know about you, but I actually get much less jet lag on trips to Europe than I do within the USA. I get good and sleep-deprived on the transatlantic flights, and then it's easy to re-set my biological clock by the sun at my destination. I don't get that option when it's only a two or three hour difference.

Thanks for the good wishes BikeChick! Good luck with your HM training. (On your other thread - it was easy training for a HM and a big bike event simultaneously last year, but I don't know that it's the same thing with triathlon. I do know lots of people who incorporate 5Ks and 10Ks into their long runs, though.)

I re-calibrated my footpod yesterday. I needed to do that since I'd moved it back to my shoelaces, because it was having trouble picking up from the pocket inside my shoe. I ran the prescribed 800 meters "blind" at what I thought was about a 9:00 pace, but it turned out to be 8:14. My target race pace is 9:20. I wish now that I'd spent more time trying to nail that down, but with my watch to keep me honest, hopefully it won't be too unnatural for my legs.