East Coast Time

I have no idea if I'm ever gonna truly adapt to this time zone. I'm totally out of my element. I feel like Ohio State football player in a BCS championship. That game didn't even start until 8:30 eastern time and I was already dozing off. I made it through the first part of the first quarter when the Buckeyes looked dominant only to wake up the next morning and see they got routed. Amazing. I've been waking up at 5am still even though I can't go swimming or workout during lunch time.

I could try to sleep in and adjust my clock to wake up at 9am and therefore stay up to midnight to still get my 9 hours of sleep. Midnight is roughly when most of these big sporting events are finishing. Right now, I feel like a kid at school because I've pretty much put in a full day by 2pm. That's okay as the rest of the afternoon, I can make phone calls to Wilsonville and do things here and there. Being that work is just right there, I can do things at anytime. This is very convenient if I think of something after dinner, I can just give a whirl to see if it solves my problem. Very nice.

Its weird just thinking about people on the west coast not even going home from work when I pretty much feel like going to bed, 8pm. Although on the flip side, it's pretty quiet at 5am when I wake up. Overall, this will be good for the Ironman competition this summer. I will be able to go to bed early and feel like I've slept in even though I'll be getting at 5am. My countdown on my Google home page will read 7 months by the time I can start training again. That's scary to think about as that's practically nothing. I know I can do a half because I've swam the distance already. I believe I can keep slowly getting longer in the pool. The key is to be prepared to swim twice that and that's gonna take all of those 7 months. I would hope by the half Ironman in May I'll be close to completing the full Ironman swim distance in the pool. I'm keeping my fingers crossed..