2005-03-22 - 9:07 a.m.

Happy birfday to Lara. I think I am either a few days early or late on this. More likely I am late. All I know is, I woke up this morning and felt the "around birfday" time, which is what I get a number of times a year when I am either about to miss, have just missed, or am missing right now a birfday. Very bad. And utterly useless.
Today I feel about four shades of crap. I have an awful flu coming on, I think, which is particularly awful because Scott has me scheduled for a full week of "breakthrough workouts" and "tests," meaning that there is a lot of strenuous exercise going on, and pinning down a goal-time for the half-Ironman for me. Right now, at the paces I've been logging in, it's looking like a pretty slow seven hours. I'd like to finish in five. We'll have to see. I've been running pretty steady 8.5, 9-minute miles when pushed, but I don't think I can sustain that for 13 miles. And even if I do, it'll still take me pretty close to two hours to run 13 miles. Aggggh.
Hmmm. Maybe should have thought of this *before* two months to race day! Goodness. I think my best possibility for improvement is on the ride. I'll have to ride in a faster cadence. Ugh.
Anyway.
Enough triathlon talk; I'm tired.
*AND* I have a head cold, did I say????

 

 

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