Ok so new goal

http://www.lonestartri.com/lonestar/lonestarhalfiron.html

A half ironman triathlon on the 24th of April 2010. So as of this posting that gives me 10 months, 17 days, and 10 hours tell this race. The goal is to go from no training to being in the top half of my age group at the race, this is going to hurt!

Injury Report

Tripped pretty bad while on the long run with Dan last night. Enjoy the pics!

Thursday Workouts

Just got back from the bike drills workout. All in all not my best effort. I think I could have gone harder on the way back and probably during the intervals. Have to try and work on that. Also need to figure out why the watch didn't work for the cooldown periods.

So I think I'm back... maybe

Ok so lets see last time I posted was in July and a lot has happened since then. I went to Prague for ROTC had an awesome time. Started my final semester of college woohoo (/cry). Actively from before I left for Prague until the last 3 weeks or so I was letting my training slip, and my slip I mean push down 28 flights of stairs while spraying it with lighter fluid and throwing a match on it. Yeah I was feeling great! Dan introduced me to a half marathon training plan (here is the plan). That has really been motivating to follow a a plan that I can see all the way through and it has been awesome to have a training partner of similar abilities, it really helps pull you through some runs. I have started a century training plan for the bike as well just this week and so far I like it, just need to find some more bike routes. Health wise I'm doing relatively good. In a mad effort to find out what a rule was in a card game, don't ask, I rolled and hit the coach. It really bruised my knee, running it seems fine but day to day sometimes it feels really tense. I'm not too worried about it but it does get a bit more sore when I bike. I am going to start lifting as well, very light and on a functional basis not just to see if I can bench press a VW Bug.

In other news I found the girl of my dreams. We met the first day of classes this semester ironically enough by me looking at the TriCats webpage (who I am no longer training with due to what I see as perceived shift from a team to a club and too much of a social aspect). We immediately clicked, and it has only gotten better since than. She is funny, smarter (way smarter than me), driven, and supportive. Best of all she is/was a triathlete so she understands those early training days, and the fact that being active is just a part of me. I have no idea by what cosmic accident we met and started talking but I am so extremely happy it happened every day.

Drats Foiled again!

Last night a huge monsoon storm rolled across town so running the river path, my 1st choice was out, so ok fine I'll go to the base and use the damn dreadmill. Roll up to the gym and all the lights were out, damn! After that I just couldn't get up the motivation to wake up super early this morning to get that run in, so it will have to be tonight provided the same thing doesn't happen. Ugh I hate my job! It is slowly eating away at my soul to much longer there and I'll just be a mindless corporate zombie obedient to my overlords and with a strange hankering for brains.

Back for good I hope

Got in a really awesome 2 hr ride with Don yesterday, link, Been running with Dan off and on. Really hope I can get a solid base in before i leave for Prague so that when i come back I can really take off.

I do still exist!

Ok long time no post, and my apologies for that. Went on an awesome vacation to Hawaii got hooked on SCUBA (its just about as good as sex no joke). Got super motivated to train harder and better this season not being able to race at the race I wanted to. Been in the pool quite a bit not really keeping track too much but I'd say last week I put in 8-10k meters. More to come... maybe =D