Transitions

Life is full of transitions right now. The biggest being the pending move to Colorado. I'm excited about moving and things to come, but at the same time it's nice being comfortable in New Mexico. Even the job is hard to leave. I may not be making enough except to make it month to month, but the stress of job hunting is weighing me down. My goal is to at least send out two resumes this weekend. I really want to focus on rehab, but I have a feeling I'll be doing some general practice as well.

The last few weeks in training have been going well. I'm only able to swim once a week, but I am coming to the realization that even swimming every day won't effect my swim time that much. Swimming makes me feel good, it's a great workout without all the pain. I'm running about 3 times a week and biking about 3 times a week. I have calculated to reach my goal time at Milk Man, my bike has to be at 20mph and my run will have to be 8:50 miles. Both these paces will be very difficult, since my training paces are much slower. I have been able to do a couple 9min miles, but can't hold the pace. I wish I could get a TT bike, it won't get me to 20mph, but would help put a little more speed to my pace.

Today I worked on transitions. I worked on mounting and dismounting my bike, which I've never done with speed before. I'm leaving my shoes already clipped in, but I'm not going to try the 'flying squirrel' mount yet, but I am doing the flying dismount. I'd like my transitions to be around 1 minute each. Next week I should try to get out to Cochiti Lake for an open water swim practice. I'm also no where near my race wait. I'm really struggling to lose weight, even with all the exercise. It's very frustrating and demotivating.

Today, I'm posting a picture of my younger, skinnier, stronger self with the girl that started all this crazy triathlon obsession.