Triathalon Training - The Preamble

Since the last post I was able to get out of Phoenix and into some cooler weather for a couple of weeks.

It was hard to make myself get up early and run while in "vacation mode" but it was so nice to experience running in cooler weather again.

Had an insanely awesome run up Provo canyon one Saturday morning. First time in a long time that I ran and just felt good. It's hard to explain but you could call it running "Nirvana". It's almost like I feel like I could run as fast and as long as I want. It definitely gave me a much needed confidence boost heading into my 6-week triathalon training program (thanks RW). However, my confidence was again shaken this morning as I got up and felt the hot sticky weather and thought "I have to run in this crap?".

I know I can complete this tri. I'm just working now to not have it be an ugly thing and meet my time goals. I need this to motivate me to get out and run in the hot sticky crap. I look forward to being able to say I've done a triathalon versus saying I'd like to do a triathalon someday. Who knows, maybe this will become my new thing. An Ironman seems inhumane at this point but so did a marathon at one point in my life.

I'll keep it posted on how the next 6 weeks goes.