Long Days...

Today was one of those long days! I've found one of the harder parts of racing Triathlon on a competitive level really is time mangement. Trying to fit in the number of hours you need for Triathlon, while still being productive at work, maintaining friendships, etc. Today was a long day. Up early for a light workout. Full day at work, 90 min swim workout right after work and then drove from Eugene to Coos Bay as I need to be in Coos Bay for business tomorrow am.

So, I'm sitting in my room at the Red Lion waiting for my sleeping pill to kick in while icing my knee! Come on IT band...I want to run soon!! Luckily tomorrow will be Friday! I have a ride after work and then I'm sure I'll be firing up the grill for dinner. Meg and I are headed out to Bend Saturday to check out a wedding venue so I'll be doing a long ride very early on Saturday. Again...there's is that time management piece. Off to bed!

-T

Off and blogging...

Well, it's official. I'm happy to have this blog up and running! I decided it would be fun to keep everyone up to date on my efforts in Triathlon and beyond! It should be fun. I hope you enjoy reading it. If you don't, blame someone else...I'm giving it my all here :)

Season Recap: This season got started early with Eugene marathon training back after the first of the year. I successfully ran the Eugene Marathon, albeit sick and with some major airway problems, and most importantly, got engaged at the finish line! It was awesome! I took a little time off to let my legs and lungs heal and hit the start line for the Pacific Crest Half Ironman towards the end of June.

PCT: I knew a little way into the swim I wasn't going to have a great day. I can normally swim with/and or beat everyone in the field. On this day though I couldn't keep up with the main pack as they swam away from me. I came out of the water about 4 min slower than what I thought I would be out in. The bike went ok, but again I couldn't ride with the main age group guys like I normally can. Still, I had a decent bike. The run, well it was a whole different story. It became a walk after mile one and ended with me once again in the medical tent receiving treatment (EUG marathon I ended in Medical as well). Overall I finished almost an hour off my best time at 5:50 something (I actually never checked the final results I was so disapointed!).

So, I've spent the last few weeks recovering and getting back into more base type training. I picked up a nasty IT band injury the other week backpacking and am currently dealing with that. It's getting better and so are my lungs! I have readjusted my race schedule for the year and think at this point I will solely be concentrating on Ironman Arizona in November. I'll do a few more weeks of heavy base training and then start my ramp up for IMAZ. Hopefully it will be a little cooler out! It was 106 yesterday in Eugene! Thanks for reading!!