Tired and Lazy

Well it's Friday and I've been working out each day since Tuesday but nothing too big.  I swam on Tuesday for 20 minutes for a whopping 1000 yards.  Phew!  I'm super slow and I have absolutely no motivation to go to the pool since.  I've had better luck on the bike.  It's just been some cruising miles.  Nothing too special..I've run once for a whopping 4 miles and my quads hurt by the end.

I was thinking about running to the pool and back this morning but I decided to sleep til 7am instead.  I've been super tired ever since I got back.  I'm sleeping more even though I'm barely working out.  I wonder if its the junk food diet not giving me any energy.  My house is so full of snacks I don't think I could try going back to the good diet for a couple of days to see if I have more energy or not.  I just have no willpower with the food actually in the house and succulent taste of chips on my lips.

Well I plan on running another 4 miles at lunch time unless the legs feel better and I'll go a nice 6 miles.  Oh well, I definitely like riding and running so that why it's been easier to do those since the Ironman.  It should be an interesting winter but I'm going to try to keep the run base going.  Cycling will fall when the weather turns to wet and cold.  Swimming well I have no idea but I may just change pools to the Bally's right across the street as motivation since I won't have to "go" to the pool.

I have to tip my Ironman finisher hat to all the pros that just keep going after big events.  Its so easy once you're off the training wagon it's so easy just to stay on the couch.  Speaking of Ironman finisher gear, I've been wearing it as much as possible even no one around here notices. A random person at my gym came up to me as I was leaving and said he did Canada as well this year.  How wild is that!  Way out here in DC another Canada finisher.

This weekend will be a total couchfest especially with Hanna on the way.  I hope the electricity stays on because I have tons of food in the freezer plus no electricity means no TV, my number one activity this weekend.

I won't be able to rant much on my pathetic swimming workouts for awhile in this blog so my entries could be limited.  I do have to keep swimming in order to keep up with Orion at the Florida half next year.  We still hope we'll be in the same wave so we can go at it in the swim.  He's a swimmer who just started officially doing swim workouts and is already as fast as me.  He's just going to get faster.  Overall, it will be a fun event but who knows maybe I'll try to really kill it.  See if I can go under 5 hours...some motivation but not much.

I also might try to get a coach.  I'd like to go faster in the Ironman but man the training just really killed me.  Maybe a coach can get me faster with less training volume than I did this summer...we'll see.

Elena is doing good in her 1st grade class.  She's not getting picked on although with her karate she'd be able to take care of herself.  She's even more into appearance and how she acts.  When she attempts to pick out clothes and shoes, there is always crying but finally she finds something that "matches".  I took her to her first MLB game.  We saw the Nationals beat the Phillies on Labor day.  There were more Phillie fans at the stadium than hometown fans.  She had a good time or at least she told me that.  Who knows maybe she's already figured out how to say nice things even though she doesn't mean it.