3 days

While running this morning I thought about how tired I was, dragging myself out of bed. With all this physical activity, one would think that I'd happily jump out of bed knowing how good I feel about myself now that I am relatively fit. The reality is though, that I still drag myself out of bed virtually every time that I am going to exercise. I suppose you can say that I have a 'built in forgetter' - I forget

5 days left...

In 'regular' life, when you are participating in a special event, you buy new clothes, new shoes, get a new hairstyle, and so on.  In triathlon, it's the opposite.  You should not do anything in the race that you haven't done before, many times before.  You definitely can't wear anything new, nor eat anything differently, no new sneakers, no new socks.  Sometimes it can be easy to forget and fall back into

6 days left

Today was a good low key swim; faster than the previous two days, and I think I will be able to make the cutoff time if I keep this pace up.  I communed with the fishes today - saw a lot of them as I was swimming - various shapes, mostly around the size of my hand.  As I went stroke by stroke I saw that

7 days left

Went to swim again this morning at Promised Land beach. It was overcast today, but there were still a lot of families on the beach, people watching us curiously as we headed towards the water all decked out. . Today it was 4 of us swimming, two of us in wetsuits, practicing for next week's triathlon. The

8 days left

Feeling doubly sorry for myself today. First of all, I swam at Promised Land today and it did not go well. Second of all, I wrote a blog entry about it that I really liked a lot, but upon posting it, it got lost in cyberspace.

9 days left

Right now, I have a few fears. The foremost fear is panicking in the swim; right behind this fear is not completing the swim in the allotted 1 hour. I know I am going to finish no matter what, so I' m not really afraid of that. I had some anxiety the last time I swam in the pool the other day. I wanted to

review / stressing

This is what I've done so far:

11/25/10    PPTC Turkey Trot 5M            TIME:  :50:35   PACE:  10:07
12/19/10   Ted Corbitt 15k:                       TIME: 1:43:02  PACE:  11:04mm