The big day.

After all of the training my big day has arrived. Tomorrow I will be doing my Sprint Triathlon. I think I have done everything to prepare for this day and I'm really looking forward to the accomplishment of this goal. I already have a plan for the future. I will have longer Sprint Triathlon in the end of May called the Tribal Sprint Triathlon at lake pleasant. I have also made plans to do the PF Changs 1/2 marathon in January and next year if not earlier do an Olympic Triathlon. I'm very excited for the future and the goals that I have set for myself. I will be posting some pics from my Triathlon tomorrow sometime next week. Thanks for all of the support and hope this has inspired you to get up and set some goals.

Organized Chaos.

In case you didn't know I have been living on my own all week, as my family is in Cali for spring break. I feel like I have have been going crazy this week and getting nothing done. I have been working and doing some training then next thing I know it's 9:30 and I'm post this blog. My family brings sanity to my crazy life. I'm disorganized and get less done without them. I guess I need chaos in my life to get things done. It could also just be that my wife is amazing and I don't know how to live without her. The dishes are piling up, the hamper is getting full, and nobody has cleaned up dinner yet! Please come home family, I miss and love our organized chaos.

Less than 2 weeks to go

This week is what I'm calling hell week for my training. My family will be in California until Friday, so I have no excuses. I have less than 2 weeks to go until the Sprint Triathlon on March 28Th. Today I ran 5 miles and tomorrow I will be swimming and biking. This Saturday I plan to do the entire thing as a test run and then light workouts all next week to rest for the big test.

Wow, just like that 10 years.

On friday night I went to my annual business meeting where they talk about the company focus for the year and present 20 years of employment awards. This January I have been with my company for 10 years and its hard to believe. 10 years, since I'm 30 is 1/3 of my life that has been spent with this company. Its seemed so quick yet it has been so long. Not sure what the future holds but I'm proud that for the past ten years I have been a very hard working dedicated employee of this company.

Next steps?

I'm doing really well in my training for my Sprint Triathlon but what will I do when I'm done? I want to keep up the exercise but I'm not sure I will. Right now I'm training and after April I will be exercising instead of training. Mentally I think I will need to set a new goal for myself, or I will stop the exercise. So does anybody have anything going on after April that I can train for?

Do I dare??? http://www.trifind.com/re_10623/TempeInternationalTriathlon.html

Alpha cat?

My neighborhood is being attacked by 3 cats. These cats must be male because they have been feeling the need to mark there territory all over my yards. I'm starting to lose my patients and don't know what to do. I'm looking for a good way to stop these pests from pooping and pissing in my yard. I need to become the alpha cat in my neighborhood and don't know how to do this. I would like to keep it civil but all I can come up with is to get out the BB gun and start making them scared to walk my fence or step in my yard. I would like to just mark my territory and they will stay away but I don't think it is that easy. Any suggestions?

Mental Endurance.

I have been training for my sprint triathlon for about a month now and have had my ups and downs. I have discovered that if I'm not mentally ready for my workout it is not a good one. If I'm ready to go and very motivated I usually have one of my best workouts ever. This has lead me to understand how important mental endurance plays a role in my daily workouts. Without the proper mind set I will not accomplish the goals I set. I hadn't realized before now, that my mental endurance is just as important as my physical endurance.

No more moles.

The moles have been removed from my body and I'm starting to recover. The procedure went well. The only problem was the fact that to numb the mole on my neck the stuck I needle in it. I think the mental part of that was the worst but the pain was not bad. I'm mole free now.

Having 2 moles removed

Tomorrow I'm having 2 moles removed and I'm a little nervous and excited. I have had a mole in the middle of my back and on the side of my neck for as long as I can remember. The one on my neck always get hit be the clippers when I get a hair cut and the one on my back always gets caught on my shirts. It will be so nice to have these removed but I have heard that they are painful for days after the removal. I will be posting how much pain I'm in tomorrow and what I thought of the removal.

Public and Private posts

I have been very quite lately on my website. A lot of things are going on in my life and its just not public material. I have many good things coming up soon but for now I'm just pushing through the days. No worries thou, many people are going through hard times right now and somethings are better left not said to the world.

No, even I can't believe I just said that.

Snow packed weekend.

On Friday I called the wife from work about noon and said lets go to Prescott today. It was forecasted to snow on Friday night and my girls have been wanting to go to the snow for years. I got off at around 2pm and we headed out of town. It started to snow heavily as soon as we pulled up to my cousins house and it snow on and off all night long. On Saturday we ran around town getting some gloves and food. Then to the snow we went. We had a great time and I got to check playing in the snow off the dad list.

The hard questions.

There are lots of things in life that you don't want to talk about or ask questions about. These are usually the topics that make people uncomfortable, or might upset them. These topics usually get left untouched. The answers to the unasked questions end up coming out later if you should of asked. Do you ask the hard questions or take the chances?

I'm not sure were I'm going with this as much as I know lots of people have hard question in the back of your mind that they have never asked. Have you not asked because your not that worried about it or because your scared of the answer?

YAY for running!!!

This week I ran 12.8 miles and next week I will be adding biking to me daily routine. I'm hoping to find out were I will be doing the swimming part training of the triathlon by next week so I can add it to my weekly routine.

I have always thought running was stupid and was a ridiculous idea. After a 2 weeks of doing it I'm shocked to say that I really enjoy it. I feel better all day long and really feel like have accomplished something. I can't believe I ran almost 13 miles this week and I'm thinking about trying to get at least 16 in next week.

Me? A Triathlon man?

So this week I think I have been convinced to run a Sprint Triathlon at the end of March. A Sprint Triathlon is really just a 1/2 of an Olympic, and 1/4 of an Ironman Triathlon. It will consist of swimming 400 yards, bike riding 12 miles, and running 3.1 miles. I haven't committed yet by signing up, but for the next month I will be training like I'm going to enter and then make my final decision. I'm very excited at the idea of an end result to my fitness goals. Not that living a long health life isn't a reward but the Idea of being in a Triathlon is really exciting. It will require me to work really hard in the next 3 months. I will keep you all updated on my status and how my progress is coming. I woke up at 4am Monday - Thursday this week and ran 2 miles everyday. That is were I am now. Come Monday I will be starting a 3.2 mile run and biking in the afternoon.

The only part of this I'm having a hard time with is finding a pool to train in. If you know of one please let me know. If your interested in the Triathlon I'm planing to be in, here is the link http://www.trifind.com/re_11301/SprintTriathlonAtVistancia.html

Back to the healthy side

I ate what ever and as much of it as I wanted over the past month and 1/2. I went back over the 200lbs mark and wanted to get back down under it. I have set a goal of being back under 200 in 2 weeks and under 190 in 2 months. Summer is just around the corner and I want to have a mean lean body for pool party's.