A little bit of everything..even training.

As my waking up for swimming has diminished to non-existence so has my blogging.  It's pretty easy just to post a thought to Facebook rather than try to put out a daily boring blog with all kinds of thoughts.

The weather has finally turned around somewhat for me.  Of course, I had perfect half marathon weather but the rest of my week in Florida was filled with record rain for the area.  This only allowed for one ride and even then we got soaked.  Luckily, I had a day to let the bike dry out before putting it back in the box for airline ride home.  I had missed some beautiful weather in DC but right when I got back there was two days of cold(60s) rainy weather here.  Perfect.  It's finally turning around but I haven't had a hard time sleeping yet and it's already June.  Last year there were tons of hot as hell days.  I guess this is good but still it just seems like we're getting robbed on the weather.

When I was down in Florida, we were able to do lots of eating.  As mentioned in my previous blog about polishing off 28 slices of pizza at an all you can eat pizza place.  We went to the Golden Corral which is a buffet and I ate a ton there.  But the best part was the 12 egg omelette.  It wasn't as big as I thought it would be.  It was about the size of a medium sized football and about 2 inches thick filled lots of ham and cheese goodness.  Plus we got 4 pieces of toast and a plate of hash browns.

The waitress was in horror when both Orion and I ordered one.  She tried to talk us out of it.  Oh yeah, I forgot the breakfast came with a carafe of OJ.  Sweet!  We had swum 45 minutes prior to coming to breakfast.  It went down without trouble and I wasn't even sick full at all.  We finished the week eating 6 full slabs of baby back ribs between 4 of us.  I had almost 2 full slabs.  Orion cooked them and they were awesome.  After it was all over, I weighed in after a couple of days of being home.  I was still sitting at 145lbs.  Not bad, no weight gain.

I had Elena all of last week so it was a bunch of picking her up at school.  We also did a fair bit of training for her upcoming 5k this fall.  She's also doing the "Kids for the Cure" race this weekend.  It should be easy for her.  We'll see if she can push the pace.  Okay maybe not but she can hold a decent pace.  Every so often she'll have a tough patch and want to walk.  I push her to keep going and that it will get better.  So far so good.  I'm making her mentally tough.  It is a fine line from her ending hating running to liking it.  She still likes to train.  She's still embarrassed running in front of her friends or people she knows.

I bought some new race wheels for triathlons.  I got a HED 6 and HED 9.  I figure it's worth the extra speed come race day.  Especially, since Orion wants to run Florida ever year plus do a full in a couple of years.  If the Olympic goes well, I may sign up for more of those and the wheels will get some good use.  I got a great deal on the wheels from Tri-Zone. I'm not sure my Olympic will go well on the run though. I did a 3 mile tempo run last week trying to hold 5:45s and was struggling the last 2 miles of it at 5:55.  Ouch.  I'm going to do some 400s today to see if I can get my leg speed up.  It's definitely hard going from 6:30ish half marathon training prep to sub 6 10k prep.  Maybe I'm too old to bust out fast 10k times, we'll see.  I still miss those easy 6 minute pace legs.  I'm hoping I can find them in time for the 21st race.

Stay tuned...