Ironmen Are Built 1 Brick at a Time...

BRICKS... It's what separates us from single sport athletes. anybody can ride 10 miles but how many average people/athletes jump off the bike strap on the runnies' and tear ass??? or jump out the of the pool and ride your soaking wet ass into the sunset??? none really. triathletes are the only people dumb enough to do this on a regular basis. brick by brick we are made and brick by brick we get stronger and faster. it's what defines us really. as painful as they are there is nothing like feeling of accomplishment after you get one done.

So i did the ride/run brick tonight and i have to say NOT BAD. Not good but not bad. It would have been a good ride if it weren't for me slowing down every 10 minutes to cough and dry heave while riding. and i mean dry heave. gut wrenching nothing in the belly dry heave. it was like my body was trying to remove my esophagus. then i would catch my breath after 5 minutes and start back up again. keep in mind i am doing all this in the darkness of night. just me and my trusty tri newt. no animals tonight. i guess i scared them all away with the heaving. not even a skunk wants to get puked on.

On to the run. when i got back home the heaving continued for like 10 minutes. mind you there is nothing in my gut. the last solid food i had were oranges at 6pm and there were long digested by then. after all that nonsense i started back out the door for a 2 mile run. AMAZING... i almost ran, i mean shuffled, the whole way. i looked like an old man moonwalking i was going so slow but hey i'm dang near 300 lbs so what do you expect. i did way better than i did saturday and my walk was averaging about 4mph my shuffle was about 4.9 mph so all in all i made my 4.3 mph average i'm shooting [for for] the ironman. i guess i was all coughed out cuz i wasn't coughing on the run. so i finished it all at around 10:30 pm.

sorry for all the detail but this my training at this point. it's important for people to see my comitment level. if at anytime i thought i was damaging myself i would stop but i have had this coughing condition the entire time i've been an athlete (in TX anyways) i never had a cough in philly only at home do i have it which tells me it has to be related to alergies at some level. but i digress.

picked up the packet for the race this weekend. funny story. when i went bikes inc to pick up my packet, iron jack (people know him around here) is a stickler for the rules so he makes everyone that signs up for weight class step on the scale. for men it's 200 and over and women it's 160 and over. keep in mind i haven't been 200 lbs since college and at that weight i had a 4 pack. i take one look at jack and ask him if he's serious. "it's not that we don't think you'll make 200 it's that we make all weight class athletes do it." OK THEN... after i got off the scale he was like "dang you're big boy" he took a look at my howitzer legs and was like "i bet you pull some watts with those" i joked and told him that they are mostly fat like the rest of me. any one that's ever seen know's i don't have small legs. i used to be embarrased by them in 5th grade. now my fat ass belly just even it all out :)

beddy bye time.

-schlotzsky turkey breast original dominator (hold the mayo n cheese please)