The Misguided Ramblings of a Wanna-Be Triathlete
13 Jan
Adding more miles & yards…No, I have not been keeping up with logging everything on here for the “IDC”, but the story is the same: My knees are sore, I’m tired, my hip flexors are screaming at me & what does not kill me shall make me stronger. There you go. That poorly formed and uninspired sentence sums up the past six days. I spent 78 minutes on an elliptical tonight. I vowed to stay on it until I started hallucinating, but my right knee woke me up from my delusions of grandeur. My theory is this: I am trying to complete 1.5 (plus) triathlons in one month. I should feel like I am truly expending as much as effort to make it seem like a real day-long triathlon. I’ve watched the Iron Man in Hawaii with people falling off bikes, vomiting in the road, running with severe back spasms….somewhere along the line I am hoping to share in part of the misery/triumph of completing a triathlon, albeit it a slower pace. (Thirteen days with one day of rest…it’s a good kind of pain. I say that with almost all of my sanity in tact. Bring on the vomit and spasms.)
I have a long weekend and I shall enjoy it thoroughly. The itinerary is as follows: leave for Melbourne on Friday, meet up with V, who I have not seen in two years, visit with dad, who just returned from a month-long trip to the Philippines, and get my hair cut. All of this must be accomplished while still logging….miles & yards.
Running & biking = miles
Swimming = yards
My days are quite similar in nature and I am OK with this – I’ll accept the mundane for now with hopes of something far more interesting looming on the horizon. (And hopefully I will be able to meet this something interesting on the horizon without further injuring my….injuries.) For now, I’ll end this here before I start to make even less sense.
P.S. miles & yards, yo.
