Downtime

Not a single day of exercise in two and a half weeks.

Fun!

I'm not sure if I really deserve so much time off since, aside from that last marathon, I didn't have a terrible strenuous end-of-season, but sometimes it's nice to just lay around and do nothing at all. I can hang out with friends and the roommate without thinking about training. I can play videogames without feeling guilty for not running. I can lay in bed until 10am with my girlfriend and not feel like I should be at the pool.

Yeah, I could get used to this life.

If only my desire to go out and run 20k, Bike for 5 hours, and swim 4000m wasn't so damn high!

I'm getting to the point now where thinking about going for a workout is making me excited. I can't wait to start training again. I'm hungry for some miles!

Watching Hawaii last weekend was absolutely great. I watched a man people said wouldn't win this race twisce take his second title, defying those who said he couldn't run. Way to go Mr. Stadler!

Next years' training plan is almost complete. Ironman is within my sights now, and when you see the race on paper, only 45 or so weeks out, suddenly it ain't so far away.