A new direction...,

Merry Christmas! Okay, I haven't blogged in damn near a hot minute so I thought it being Christmas and all, I'd give it a shot.

Strange to be doing this again.

So, my tri days are over. Well, maybe over is the wrong term but certainly curtailed. Just lost the interest in a major way. I did Ironman Augusta and thought I was going to DNF the whole day. That's the only race I have ever be in where I wanted to quit from the start. And it nuked my desire to race that distance again or longer. But the desire to keep after that outer edge is still burning strong. What's next?

Ultramarathoning. This is where my wife chimes in "of course[expletive,expletive]"

2010 will be the year I start to pursue this new goal. I have some races in the slot and others I'm thinking about in a majorly sick way.

Stay tuned and we'll see what 2010 brings my way. I'm going to try to post some video and pics on the blog so I can have a history of the races.

10 Miles

One foot in front of the other.

Boring.

Getting it together

Okay, I haven't posted in forever. That's okay because nobody reads the damn thing anyway.

Whatever.

Rode 65 and felt really strong. HR was low and average speed was decent.

Swimming has started again and yeah-it still sucks.

Running has gotten much better mostly due to agressive stretching. If you have read the blog before, then you know I have had knee problems which are now mostly GONE due to stretching.

Hmmmmmn-who knew?

20 weeks to the big dance. 20 weeks.

60 Minute Trainer ride

Boring. Sometimes riding the trainer reminds me of a rat on a wheel...,

3 miles the other night. I'm too embarassed to tell you how slow I ran.

So, I'm done with grad school and looking forward to a summer off.

Started building a deck. Two levels-1500 square feet.

Gutting master bath down to studs and updating it.

Getting gifted/AP certified.

Oh yeah-and occassionally training for an Ironman and Half-Ironman.

Good times...,

50 Mile Bike, 7 Mile Run

Got it done. Legs are trashed. I have a LONG way to go until I'm race ready.

Last night of doctoral school. Wa-hoo!!!

Rode my trainer 30 minutes last night and did upper body work.

Not impressive.

Getting it together

Okay, I'm a lousy blogger. Sporadic at best-I don't think about keeping up with it. Life just seems to get in the way.

Maybe I'll get better.

Ran 2.5 miles last night. Wow. In no particular hurry to ramp up the miles.

I'm bailing out of the doctoral program. More on that later.

Got a big bike this weekend-60 miles. Gonna try a new strategy this year.

Thinking about swimming.

35 mile bike

35 miles on SCT. Frozen toes, junk destroyed, totally alone.

Great stuff...,