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.