a good day but good enuff???

okay so today was okay, and tomorrow had better be just as good, but all in all this week sucked big time....but that has been the story most of this spring and summer. some good long rides, runs and swims, but just not enuff of them.....the ride today was just over 66 klicks, but the rest of the week was a dud. 10k run on monday, and other then some short mtn bike rides with the kids and splashing around the mill creek pool with them yesterday, that was my training....am gonna try for a +21K run in the heat tomorrow...and will try and relax and will try and stay positive throughout the week...but, even if i do the GWN tri next sunday, it's gonna be on guts and not on training....last year i flubbed my way to 6:32:41...and swim (41 mins) the bike (3:12) was okay, but the run was something i could have done without...so i'll try and fake my way through the swim and bike again this year...but heaven help me on the run....so we'll have to wait and see....if i make it out to the GWN feast on friday night..then i'm in...so i'd better quit over thinking it


w

the gwn dream is dead

well, it seems as my training schedule for the summer of 2008 has been set. which i guess means i probably won't be doing a lot of it....maybe a run here or there, the odd bike ride, and swimming more then once in a blue moon would be wishful thinking on my part...so unless something changes dramatically between now and july 6th, i guess i'll be running trains on that morning, and not running a triathlon...

w

so this is what it's come down to???

2004 the swim was 43:28, bike 3:03 and the run 2:19
2007 the swim was 40:34 bike 3:12 and the run 2:39
2008?????
as always, it gonna come down to the run in 2008....as far as the great white north triathlon goes,
could care less about the swim...40 minues is a pretty do-able go. i'm pretty sure i won't freak out this year, and, i don't know why, i just don't care about the swim part of the tri..i know i'll get it done, get into transition, and out onto the bike pretty uneventfully. not very quickly, but in one piece.
the same goes for the 90 k of bike riding...again, my time will probably be as average as it has been in past years...3/ 3:30...still do-able...but that run, how do i overcome whatever grabs my get up and go and drags me back with every run...i'd like to do 2 hours flat, but i can walk 21K in 2 hours!!!....if i actually ran, and didn't stop at every porta potty, and actually ran more then i walked, i could possibly break a 6 hour 1/2 ironman...big woop!
oh well, 15 days left..a couple of long rides, maybe one more long run..and that's it....onward and upwards!

w

oh monday monday i am a triathlete no more

well, out of the last 10 days, i've trained twice...one swim, one ride, one run...so i guess that says it all. there are reasons. health for one. i haven't felt 100% for a while, and that has given me one sort of valid excuse...but my head and my heart just isn't into much of anything right now...it seems like the night before, i'm ready to go, but when i wake up the next morning, the 1st thing i want to do is, well to just go back to bed...there are stress issues, health issues, motivation issues (do i really wanna stick my face into a frozen pond?)...so, i can't really completely back out of anything. and i'm pretty sure i'll do the half moon tri, and may go out and do the swim and bike at great white north....but, undertrained will be the headline of that day

w

the last 3 weeks

in the end i guess we all train alone, but i'm getting kind of anxious. at this point, this year, this is quite possibly the least i've ever trained for any race...sure i've hit all the long runs, swims and rides, but the inbetween stuff has been pretty much hit and miss....don't know why, but just seems my get up and go has completely got up and left...i don't know, guess it's the same old thing in some ways, way too much to do, and just no idea where to begin, and just what to begin with....i guess the trick will be, whatever happens on july 6th happens...and just enjoy the next 3 weeks of tapering...which sort of discribes the 1st 6 months of my 50th year...

w