Weekly Review

Finally, over my illness. I went to the Dr. on Thursday and got a steroid shot and this seemed to do the trick. I often wonder if I'm the only person who actually goes to the Dr and asks for shots. My wife thinks I'm nuts. Funny story, I had told the Dr. I had a competition coming up, etc and at first she was concerned on giving me the shot because she thought I might get disqualified for a positive steroid test. I had to laugh at this, because when you finish where I finish at in half ironmans and ironmans its pretty obvious you are not on steroids.... :)

The week started off bad, but was able to finish pretty strong on Saturday & Sunday. Saturday may have been one of the all time windiest days I have ever ridden in. I rode about 20 miles straight into a headwind at sustained winds of 25 mph with gust of 30-35+.. On a day like this, I would typically ride East to West (wind was out of the north) but I wanted the mental strain of the wind to see if I could just focus and ride through it and it was okay.

I purposely stayed out of the pool this past week because I didn't know if I had a sinus infection or what and the pool at lifetime causes me issues from time to time. My plan moving forward will be to swim a minimum of 3 times per week.

For the week I ended up with:

• Cycling - 6:00
• Running - 3:57
• Swimming - 1:00
• Weights - 1:15

I'm over my sickness but I did manage to injure my back/neck today. I went to a broom ball birthday party with my oldest son (Ben) and got talked into playing broom ball. Broom ball was great until old Dad got a little too aggressive and decided to sprint after the ball and then try to make a hard stop. Let's just say it was a Charlie Brown moment and I ended up a couple of feet in the air landing on my head and back and then I got to lie there in pain with the wind knocked out of me for approximately 5 minutes while the entire STONEBRIAR MALL watched!!! Certainly not one of my better moments. Not sure how this is going to impact the week but right now I'm hurting.

The 5:00-5:15 half ironman is out of the question at this point. The only way I would have hit this time was to have an incredible bike split (by my standards) and I just don't see that happening for this race. Not enough time between now and IM NO Race. I played around too much this winter making excuses about the cold, the trainer etc. I think a more realistic time is going to be around 5:20-5:30.

I've got about 4 solid training weeks before New Orleans. Assuming I can get and stay healthy I plan to push hard over the next 4 weeks and then let the cards fall where they may.