Grey Hairs & Popping Joints

I’m not going to worry about uploading my workouts from last week. I managed to do some but not all. I did go on a bachelor party trip Thursday thru Sunday which kinda leads us to this post. Getting older sucks. I know I know…there are good things too, but this past weekend definitely made me realize that I am definitely not capable of throwing down as I was back at Auburn. Was it really that long ago? Sure doesn’t seem like 7 years. We went pretty solid all 3 nights we were gone. The drive home was ridiculously long. The bad part is that I’m more exhausted today than I was yesterday. Oh well, guess I’ll keep this little experiment in the back of my head.
There are only 19 days until my next race…crap. I really need to get a move on with my training. I haven’t been as consistent as I hoped I would be by now. Starting today (with the exception of swimming this morning b/c I pretty much threw that idea out the window when we were on the road yesterday) I’m going to make it to all of my scheduled training.
I feel pretty good about the biking leg of the race, but the running legs have me a little worried. I was going pretty solid with my training a month out from the Mercedes race. I haven’t really run since I crossed the finish line. The distance isn’t bad at all when you look at them individually (3.1 mile run/12 mile bike/ 1 mile run), but I get a little worried that my legs aren’t going to be ready for the transitions. I’m going to have to start running a little after my bike rides. I want to be able to average an 8 or 9 minute mile. Not positive if I can do that right now, I’ll have to jump on the treadmill and see just how fast I can run 3.1 miles. An 8 min mile is a pretty good clip for me right now. My end goal is to hammer out one mile in under 6 minutes (haven’t done that since high school soccer) and be able to keep that pace up for a 5k.
I’ll be sure to be better about posting.

Eric’s Quote of the Day: “You know son, I thought I was wrong once. It turns out I was wrong about that” ~ Dad