Ealry Bird, Night Owl & Chicken S#!%

If only there were 12 more hours in each day... I need about 4 more hours of sleep every night and another good 8 hours worth of free time to train, read, take my dog to play Frisbee, visit my friends and do any of the other 4 million things I'd rather be doing lately. Lately I've been up at 5:15 and lucky to be in bed by midnight. Tonight I managed to fit in a run as the sun was disappearing below the horizon. It's been cooler so I brought Boomer with me and he pulled me through about 2.5-3 mile steady paced run. I really need to get a running watch, or at least use the handy stopwatch feature on my ipod I always forget is there. I still sometimes prefer not knowing exactly how far I'm running and how fast because I enjoy living under the impression that I'm getting faster.

I made it out to the lake in my tri suit on Sunday and as I waded out into Lake Ontario I quickly pulled a U turn and completely chickened out. Granted there were actual crashing waves and I couldn't see anything through the churning waters. Still, it knocked my confidence as the open water swim looms in my not so distant future. I'm crossing my fingers for clear skies & calm waters... little to no seaweed and a general migration of all fish to the opposite side of the lake would also be nice though.

There's been talk about a relay marathon where each runner runs 6 and a half miles. I'm considering it and even wondering if I can grit my teeth through training for a half for the next year or so. Considering it will probably take me a full year to work up to anywhere near that distance it would at least keep me fit for the tri next year.

I've worked about 38 hours in the last 3 days and I'm absolutely beat... sitting down has become one of life's great pleasures for me lately. The worst part is the lack of sleep is making it very hard to drive so I've resorted to drinking coffee again. Hopefully next week will be easier and my taper week will actually find me tapering. I suppose we'll see.

Listening to: I Would Love/ Lee Coulter