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I know that I'm not going to drown from the actual distance at the Ironman swim. I may drown from the being with 2200 other swimmers vying for position in the water. Just think about walking out of a sporting event where everyone has their eyes closed and trying to get through the exits...I just hope to come out of the water with all my fingers, toes and blood free. The actual swim distance is 4224 yards and I swam 4000 yards this morning for a new all time swim distance. I wasn't able to swim that fast even though I went with low water drag jammers rather than the baggy shorts.

I decided against the PT route as my run went pretty well yesterday. I did a 6 mile run with 5 miles of good tempo. I was using my new racing shoes to break them in. They're fast. I was able to run some sub 6:30s which was nice but they were tough. I dug up my old marathon training from 2001 when I was gearing up for a 2:40 something marathon and I'll be trying to reproduce some of those workouts in the next month to get the legs ready. I'll just really focus on shorter higher quality workouts and probably only put in two more 2 hour runs before the big event. I'm almost positive I weakened my foot from pushing off the wall during my swim workouts. My other foot was bugging me about halfway through the swim workout this morning so I starting changing my pushoff.

It's going to be hot and humid again this weekend. I'll be putting in a 6 hour ride tomorrow when the heat index is suppose to be 100. Oh joy, I'm going to try a new nutrition plan with just gatorade and gels. I'm just not having much luck with the infinit. My tummy gets too many calories I think. I probably pushed up the calorie slider on my custom formula too high. We'll see how it goes. On Sunday, I'm going to just run for 90 minutes and do another hard swim workout.

Elena is having her first karate belt test tonight. I'm not sure what they are going to test her on after only 1 week but it will probably be something straightforward. We'll see how it goes. She is having fun with it. I'll try to post some pictures and/or movies.

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