Day Off

After doing this for 5 years now you would think I would be used to this. It still amazes me how crappy you can feel when you take a complete day off from training. It will be my first day off in about 16 days, and a down week for me. I did the Praireman Aquabike yesterday. It felt good to get back to racing. It was my first race since Ironman Arizona. It felt good to get the competitive juices flowing again. It also served as a good benchmark to where my fitness is at at this stage of the game. Lets just say, bike was good, swim could use some work. I hope I am able to get a sprint race in before Kona just to see if everything is coming together.

Here is something I found funny. Yesterday, a friend of mine and I where watching the half Ironman. Chris Leigh won, and he was telling me all the training Chris was doing. He said he was doing like 30+ hours a week, and just was going on and on. I was having a hard time feeling sorry for the guy. Or thinking that that was some incredible feat. I mean yeah he is training 30 hours a week, but that isn't even a full time job. He does it for a living. I started think well I put in 20+ hours training, and 40 hours of real work. That is 60+ hours. I got him beat. Just being alittle sarcastic, probably because I am jealous. What really amazes me are the guys and gals that compete at this level with kids, and full time jobs. Now that is a major feat. Going to try to enjoy a recovery week and not go crazy. Until next time.......