Last Pool Workout

I got back from the pool today and realized this will be my last pool workout in I don't know like a month.  I probably even wouldn't head back to the pool til December if I could get away with it but I'm sure I'll be back in 4 weeks or so.

Even though I'm not working today and have time before I leave I didn't sleep in.  I figured since I started over a year ago getting up practically every day at 4:30 to go to the pool that the last pool workout before the Ironman I should get up at 4:30.  It was good I got the race week workout prescribed in and I felt okay.  Not super fast but not slow.

I'm going to take quite a few pictures during the trip.  I mean this could be my first and last Ironman so it would be good to look back on during my mid-life crisis.  I'm sure I'm going to have a miserable mid-life.  I'm suffering right now and I'm not even 40.  I just can't go as fast in my runs and I'm definitely not recovering from workouts like I used to.  I can't just go full blast on 5 hours of sleep.  I can't hang with the young pups in the drinking department either.  Although maybe not sleeping and drinking too much isn't something I should aspire to.

My hair is turning gray although its been like that for a few years.  I keep meeting 80s babies that's the most depressing.  Talking to people who were born when I was in high school.  Ouch!!  Another thing is the friends will start turning 40 next year...which begins my slow 3 year countdown as well.

I need to race young on Sunday.

6 more days...