Day Two

Wow, did 5:45 ever come quickly this morning! 

I must have miscounted my laps yesterday, I only shaved a minute off my time today swimming the 750m in 16 minutes. And this morning I was fresh and ready to go, yesterday I was exhausted. The bike wasn't as painful as I thought it would be; however, it did take me nearly 40 minutes to do the 20k and 35 minutes to run the 5k. I'm going to have to work on those times. I did had Basia Bulat on my iPod keeping me going. I'll post a link below.

The gym I work out at doesn't open until noon tomorrow. I know. Craziness. So if it is nice I might go do the actual course tomorrow morning. Weather permitting. We will see. 

I think that the hardest part of the next three weeks is going to be not drinking. I know, I know, stop laughing at me and take me seriously here. I may love my red wine but I can go three weeks. Right? I hope so. I'm suddenly three times more afraid. Someone remind me why I am doing this please.

After this morning's torture session I realized that my old beat up Brooks where not going to cut it. They are in pretty rough shape. It is a little sad how abused they are. 

While driving home yesterday I noticed that The Running Room on 109th is having a sidewalk sale. So, I went down to see what they had. They have a lot of hideous looking shoes. Hideous! And of course the most hideous pair where the ones that fit me best. Yup, they were white with a lot of neon pink and little neon blue. They were scary. I stood there for a good two minutes just looking at them. "These are some very pink shoes." I said to my feet more than once. The two young men helping me got a pretty good kick out of how much I really was not digging the pink. Finally one of them went to dig through the boxes to see if they had the same shoe in less hideous colours. I now own a pair of less hideous white, orange and grey Mizunos.

After all that fuss about pink I also picked up two pairs of running shorts with pink waistbands and stitching.  Hey, they were on sale dirt cheep.

If anyone has any training and or diet tips for me I would love to hear from you.

Have a great day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxrdNw_A1Jw