It's The Ironman Not The Marshmallow Man...

just trying to get through the first week of hard training. so far i have made it but i haven't completely finished a workout yet. My body is going through the shock of hard training from doing nothing and being sick for 5 weeks. I have the big picture in mind however.

tonight i did my swim workout out of order...MISTAKE... the workouts are in the order they are in for a reason so in the future if don't think i do that day's workout will either do half/part of the workout or take a rest day and do the whole workout the next day.

I did meet a fellow ironman cda '08 participant at the pool today. his name is mike sexton like the guy from the world poker tour. you can always tell ironmen at the pool because we all have on watches clocking our lap times. and we hog the lanes for LONG periods of time.

I did make another decision today. I have to join the masters group soon. i am not worried about my swim. i am mostly worried about finishing the ride fast and having enough legs to survive 26.2... I think 2 months of masters/lake swimming should suffice. I am not underestimating the swim i just know that it will be the shortest part of the day and i just have to be strong enough to survive choppy water and have enough confidence to get out of the lake in under 2 hours.

that being said i am not chopping off the swim portion of my brick tomorrow. my throat is hurting from doing sprints in the pool today and sucking in nasty a55 (cess) pool water at high velocity.

This won't be last time i say this but...

I HATE SWIMMING

The first mile i'm ok but after that... its like "DUDE, how long do i have be in here!!!"

I will have to purchase a different wet because alas my fat a55 can't fit in the old one. I will be getting one sometime in april. that's it for now. Tomorrow is a 2 hour run/jog/walk/crawl so wish me luck.

-wendys spicy bac'n-dominator