Blackland Sprint tri

I have spent the last couple days in Virginia visiting my daughter and grandson.  A bit of a last minute trip.  My daughter and son in-law are Marines stationed at Quantico Va..  Presently my son  in-law is attending school on the west coast and found out at the last minute that he could not fly back to Va for the long weekend.  Such is life in the military.  So I was able to get a cheap flight if I left Friday early in the morning and returned Sunday.  I had a great visit and was happy to help my daughter around the house.  Saturday we got to go to the Nationals game in Washington.  Taking my grandson to his first baseball game was a real treat.

Since the last post:

1.) It was not a great month for sales were i work so the money thing to rear its ugly head.  I have completed the initial testing signed up for the ironman Louisville,  both of which involve an investment of funds.  As i posted earlier I have the financial means to do this as long as I stay gainfully employed.  So i was thinking that it would figure that as soon as I commited my self to this endeavor that a big part of supporting it would disappear.  hard to keep these negative thoughts out of your head.

2.) Working on detailed goals for 2011 - 2012 season.  It is helpful to have these.  It gives direction and focus.  Without them I would want to do every race and workout constantly.  Usually ending in injury.  Without going into the gory details my main goal is weight loss.  I need to shed about 30 lbs to get to an ideal ironman weight.  This should also make me faster as well.

3.)Competed today in the Blackland sprint tri.  It is one of the best local races in the North Texas area.  The pool is a 50 meter with wide lanes.  My main goal was to kick all the way on the swim.  I did great on that my time for the 300 meters was 5:39  (unofficial).  It was a beautiful day in the area cool and breezy.  My bike was ok except I dropped my water bottle and had to double back for it.  This added about 2 minutes to the second loop.  My wife noticed the drop off in time.  On the run I held it together for about a 28 minute 5k.

Blackland Tri results

swim 5:39.4            4th in age group
bike  46:48:41         7th in age group (should have been at least 5th without the dropped bottle)
run    29:32:39        14th in age group

finnish 8th in age group

Def shows I need to work on the run.  All in all not a bad outing for a "fun" race.