I am reluctantly signing off of Trifuel for the next month. We're preparing to go touring around Italy with the kids on our tandem bikes, leaving in a week and there are just so many details to wrap up. I simply cannot let myself get sucked in, I mean interested in, thinking about triathlons right now. Must. Stop. Reading. Trifuel.

So to all of you whose race reports I haven't had the time to read or comment on yet, congratulations! Whether it's your first tri or your 100th, the effort deserves it.

To all of you with upcoming races this fall, best of luck! I hope you have a wonderful race day experience.

And from me: Ciao! We will be in Rome, then riding up from Perugia to Florence through the Italian countryside. We've been out training on the tandems with the kids a lot, we rode 65 miles over the course of one weekend, and this week we've ridden every other day pulling the trailers over our own rolling wine country hills. I think we're ready!

Here's our rides:

These are Bike Friday folding tandems. Each of the bikes goes into the two suitcases you see behind them. Arrive and unpack, stack the suitcases on the trailer, and pedal off.