WOW -- Welcome 2008

I have been lazy with the posting. My apologies.

Well, I had a series of slacker weeks following my knee injury from the long bike ride. I trained rather sporadically over the holidays, not getting really back into things until after the New Year. I know, I know. I have to admit that training in the winter is REALLY hard. It's hard on the body and even harder on the mind. The last thing you want to do at 5:30am during the winter is crawl out of your warm bed to go run or swim outside in the freezing darkness. Now the rains have come. I am so not used to that either. They put a damper on my schedule. Plus my gym membership has expired, so I have to get really creative now.

Well, I've changed my running plans. For my endurance runs, I will be doing 8 minute run, 2 minute walk and building my time like that. It's been working so far. I made it up the big hill in Griffith Park the other day on my run. I was so proud of myself. The last time I tried that, I had an asthma attack about 1/3 of the way up. I walked the rest of it. But not this past Saturday. I made it. I realized that day that I need all of the little victories I can get. New Year's Eve day I swam 55 laps. That was another one I was proud of. Over half of the Ironman distance. I could have done the last 30 laps, but they closed the pool. Next time....

I need to buy my aerobars and then get fitted to my bike. Hopefully this will prevent more knee issues on the longer rides.

So much to do, so little time.

Races this year that I'm planning on doing as part of Ironman prep (if I can afford all the registrations - haha):
Solvang Century -- March 8, 2008
Lavaman Tri -- April 6, 2008
Wildflower 1/2 Ironman -- May 7(?), 2008
And then the big day -- Coeur d'Alene Ironman -- June 22, 2008

After Ironman, I'd like to do the Muddy Buddy in November. That's just for fun though. tee hee.

Tonight I have swim practice. Hopefully it'll be a full hour in the pool (last week the lights went out early, so we had to cut our practice short).

I'll be back on top of posting my training more regularly now. Thanks for reading!