Club Wars and the passage of September

My first month of serious "re-ramping" is now done. Can't say I've bounced back to IM fitness but luckily I have one more month. 50 mile rides feel decent and 15 mile runs don't kill me. And, best of all, my swim feels easy and is (I think) getting a tiny bit faster at medium effort. October will quickly tell if the Ironman distance event on 11/1 will be fast and painful, slow and mildly painful, or slow and really painful. Fast, of course, is relative.

Along with a lot more training September had me racing again. Just once in a hybrid medium distance tri. I got spanked by the Diesel. I won't say whether he had a great day or I had a tough one...I'll just leave it as he beat me on this particular day. Next challenge is B2B where Diesel adn the rest of us will have to call upon many, many Zen teachings in order to manage the day.

How the other 99.5% live

I've spent the last month since IMLP relaxing my workout schedule. Eating ice cream. Sleeping in about twice a week (until 6:30!). Its been nice but it all ends today. I have to get a little more serious for my next 140.6, which is not a race but really a year end "event". Having said that I'm sure I'll try to do well (for me that is).

While I haven't tracked my training at all, over the past 5 weeks I've rode about three rides over 50 miles, got in the gym again (this is good), and run a few long runs of 10-15 miles. About four easy workouts per week average. The last week has been only 3 workouts due to mild injury.

Today is the day. Back at it. I hope my fitness hung on for five weeks...I'm now headed off to the open water swim at 7AM on Labor Day!