Its Official

I'm a Half Ironman-in-waiting.  I have officially signed up for the Oilman Texas Half Ironman race.  I wanted to make sure I was comfortable with my training before actually signing up for the race.  And now that I'm a little more than half way into the training, I know this race is possible.  Its obvious I haven't been able to keep up with my blogging posts as much as I wanted to, and I apologize for that.  My schedule has been crazy and I have had little time at home.  The past few weeks I've had some ups and downs, bad runs and skipped swims, but I've got a new fire lit.  Yesterday, I did a training triathlon - 30 min swim (1500 yards), 2 hour bike ride (32 miles) and 30 min run (3.2 miles), and even though I was super tired afterward, it felt great!  I'm currently in the 2nd week of Base 3 of my training.  After this week, I have only 6 weeks left. 6 weeks. Yikes!  I'm actually starting to get a little excited!

Monday 9/19

Long swim 

wu:  200swim, 200kick, 200pull, 200swim

main: 1900 ladder. Do a set of 300, then 275, 250, etc…until 25

cd: 4 x 50, each slower than last

Total: 2900 yards

So...new motto for the next 45 days:  No excuses.