Preparation

Shelly and I have three more weeks until we officially start training on July 5 for the Longhorn. We're going to a seminar next Wednesday to hear more tips and tricks for training from Dawn. At that time, we'll pick up our copies of our training plan. If there's one thing Shelly and I both love, it's following a training plan.

When we met with Dawn earlier this week, we got an idea of what the plan would look like: three swims a week, three bike rides, and four runs. I started trying to work that into the schedule that we already follow, and it immediately became pretty difficult to do. Right now we only swim twice a week, and we have a short day on Wednesdays that works perfectly for a swim/bike brick. Unfortunately, the weather is becoming too hot to ride in the middle of the afternoon, which worked so nicely all winter/spring. So now we need to move a ride to early morning or late evening. And schedule swimming for times that are convenient for us but when the gym isn't too crowded to get a lane in the pool. And figure out how to fit in four runs a week without having bike/run bricks (Dawn says that bike/run bricks just beat your body up and hasten injury - your body will run if you want it to run - no need to practice it every week). Do we change our work schedule and lose the half day? We've got to talk through some solutions and find one that will work.

Being someone with a full-time job, family obligations, and the desire to every-so-often have some fun that doesn't involve exercise, I'm starting to realize that this goal has the capacity to overtake my life. Best case scenario would be to go part-time at work...I wish!