Been a while....
Twitter has taken over a bit from my blogging. The last month has been good. The PlayTri festival was very motivating... since you can find motivation in a sub-par performance. My swim was great... Masters Class is paying off for sure. I set a PR pace in the water, and blew away my best time by 1/10 of a yard per second... what that means is I cover 1500 meters this year, in the time it took my to cover 1500 yards last year (my previous best swim). That comes out to swimming an extra ~130 yards in the same amount of time.... based on my rough calculations.
There was rain on the course that day, so I took what the bike would give me, and finished with a solid pace, close to 21mph. The run.... well, I had been concentrating so much on the swim and bike, that I took for granted my run shape. Hard to believe that 3 months out from my marathon PR, that I would end up walking on this 10K. That is where the motivation came from.
The bride is half marathon training right now, and we are doing those runs together. My number one goal for the PrairieMan Half Iron is to nail the run. I will sacriface my pace in both the water and on the bike, to knock out a walk free 1:50:00 half marathon that day. Which could be a tall order if it is as hot as it was two years ago.