Dead Weeks

I hate those weeks where everything feels slow and all the workouts suck. It always happens after a great week of workouts for me. I mean last week I really killed a couple of swim workouts and had a couple of good bike workouts. This week has been miserable as far as swimming and cycling go. I'm not going to count running as well I'm still have a screwed up foot. Today's swim was atrocious. I was doing 200 intervals and my speed for them was slower than my average speed for the 3400 yard swim on Saturday. I did have the "slow baggy" swim trunks on which is about 5 seconds per 100 or so but still. I just couldn't get anything going plus I was rested. It wasn't like this was third hard swim workout in 3 days. I hadn't swum hard since that Saturday workout. The two attempts at a hard cycling workout have been pretty pathetic. My speed is nowhere near last week or even previous weeks for each interval. I have Elena this weekend so it's a built in rest weekend into my training.

Work has been busy but normal until our major competitor announced that they were going to try to a hostile takeover of the company by offering $16 per share. Oh joy, the problem with this is that if it went through my product would be scraped. It looks like our upper management and board laughed at their proposal and said basically "No Way!". We're hopeful it just goes away kindof like the failed Microsoft takeover of Yahoo.

The summer movie season is in full swing but man there really hasn't been one of those awesome movies yet. I mean Ironman was good and so was Indy but not like totally awesome. I hear Kung Fu Panda is good. I haven't really been able to hit up the movies because my workouts usually go until 4 something in the afternoon and I'm totally beat afterwards on the weekend. It's easier just to sit at home and pop up some microwave popcorn when I feel the urge to eat popcorn.

I keep thinking about life after August 24th(Ironman). It's going to be totally weird being able to sleep in and the weekends are going to feel like 5 day vacations. I'll have so much time I'm sure I'll be bored. Of course, I could actually do some stuff other than training like finished unpacking and organizing the condo. Also, I'll be downing at least a bag of chips per day right afterwards. Doritos, Pringles, KC Masterpiece, Salt & Vinegar, Cheddar & Sour Cream, and Cheetos just to name a few.

And the final thought is I scheduled an appointment with a podiatrist for Tuesday. I was planning on not running for a week anyway so I'll hit up the doctor and see what's what. I made sure that the actual podiatrist runs and competes. Stay tuned.

2 months 5 days..