You may be right. . .I may be crazy

I registered to run Ironman Arizona next year! I have started working toward new and exciting fitness goals. I feel like a virgin, running for the very first time ;-). The idea of this race is enough to make all my "old boring routes" seem brand new. I think to myself, "this time I'm running for Ironman!" I completed a bike ride which by all my calculations and planning was ill-advised at best, but I proved myself wrong again. I biked 90 miles last week, a 30 mile jump from my longest ride. I will not pretend I made any kind of record speed on this ride, but I was amazed to have completed it without incident (heck, I didn't even get a flat!)


My next race is the PF Changs Rock and Roll Marathon in January. I signed up for this race believing it fell on my short week (so I would have Saturday off), but I was wrong. This means that I will be leaving work, going to the race, running 26.2, getting food, and, as rude as it may be, falling asleep at the table. I hear you saying "why not take a day off". Um, because A. I'm too much of a bad a-- for that and B. because I'm already blowing all my vacation on a trip to -wait for it- AUSTRALIA!!! boo ya! I am going to learn to scuba dive and dive the reef! That is another blog entirely, and I am looking forward to some fun stories from that 17 DAY CRUISE by the way :-).

Back to the training. . .This morning, after I got off work at 3am, I went home and ran 12 miles. I was scheduled to do 18, but sleep won my attention at last, and I finished up the last 6 after a good 5 hour nap. Next week, I am heading up Usery and South Mountain on Tuesday, with a lunch break in between to make it feel like a work day. . .it should take me about 8 hours because I am way too slow. After I do this, because it was a goal from last year and needed to get done, I am going to start working on speed, and keeping my long rides a tad shorter to save up some energy for the rest of the week.

My nutrition plan is being thwarted by hunger. I am using sparkpeople.com to log my fitness and food, and it is a judgmental little beast! Too much fat, not enough carbs, too much fiber. . .not enough calories? Well, that is new. I have started planning out my whole day's food so that I can be in range on all these nutrients. The program makes food feel like a chore, and it makes me want to eat a Twix in defiance. 

So, in conclusion, I am training for a Marathon, spending a day on my bike, feeling good about life, and eating on purpose or with purpose.  It is time to start my weekend, and I am ready to get some sleep :-)