Registered And ALMOST Ready

Yesterday I registered for two of the four triathlons I'm shooting for this year. They are both the easier of the four being "Sprints". The first one is on March 1st, 500 yd open water swim, 10 mile bike, and a 3 mile run. It should be pretty easy, but that water will be cold. The coolest thing about it is that it will be held on Lake Houston, which is only 5 miles away from my house.

The next one will be March 14th in Athens. We did this one last year and it was the first triathlon I'd ever done. We've pretty much decided we will do this one every year no matter what. As far as the one on Lake Houston, I'm going to be doing that one by myself, my training buddies opted out... "Leave no man behind" Pfft. Kidding, I understand their excuses... err reasons.

2009, although the outlook is dismal for many reasons, is looking like a good year for racing and doing hard things(mountain climbing and I'd like to try a "Century" bike race, 100 miles at some point).




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Variant

I like B&W variations...




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That Photo

Here is that photo I wanted to post yesterday. I love this arboretum.



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Luckily

Luckily, I can set the date back for when I forget to write. It could be cheating, but who cares. I was going to write and got side tracked by... things, very annoying, but whatareyagonnado? Write the next day and date it for the previous day, that's what. I had a cool photo I wanted to post too. Oh well, I'll just put it up today.

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Training And General Stuff

Well the training has been going great so far. This morning I finished my second week of intense workouts. The knee feels great, the lungs are coming back, and the muscle soreness is finally abating somewhat. All good stuff there.

Tomorrow the guys are doing a 40 mile bike, but I have to work so I won't be attending that. Soon I'll start getting on the bike in the evenings.
You know... Time is such a precious commodity. Balancing my time seems to be the biggest challenge of late. Since before Christmas, I've been running around just crazy, working my normal job which is 6 days a week a lot of time, working at my other job as a musician, trying to be a good dad and husband (when I'm there) with the little bit of time left over, and now, training again. I get up at 4:45am, get the gym by 5am and stay until around 6:45am or so. I do this so that I won't be tapping into the family time with all of this. Anyway... maybe I'm just feeling whiny because I'm not getting enough sleep... which is exactly what I'm going to do right now.
But first:
This morning as the sun rose, I noticed how strange and wintry the sky looked. I grabbed my camera, snapped a couple of shots, then ran it through Photoshop to warm it up a bit.



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