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White Lake Half

Another 'Half in the bag. A good race! Maybe could have been a tad faster, but still a good race.

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YES!

Taper time! Feel the Real Life™ start to come back. I'm all tingly... and I'm not talking that feeling you get after you ease out of the saddle after a long ride. Oh yea!

Only 26 days left until Ironman. Gasp. I think I'm ready.

Had two big swims over the weekend. 5K in the pool on Saturday morning (before jumping on the bike for a couple of hours). Then on Sunday there was the Nav-E-Sink swim: a 2.4 mile Ironman format swim. Ready for the 2.4 time? 57 minutes. Oh yea! I was still a little tired from the workout on Saturday and put almost no effort into the swim. 57-minutes! I think my goal of a 55 minute IM swim is really possible.

Special note here: Loving Wife™ also did the swim in a personal best 1:14. I know she said Ironman was a nutz distance to race, but I think she is finding out that as you do more, the distance starts to seem more reasonable.

Monday was a hot, hot, hot with temps in the 90°s. I celebrated with a 2:30 run along the canal path. It was indeed hot, but the 14+ miles I got in didn't feel that bad. This was my first run in real heat since Florida. The body remembered what do to... fluids "in" is the key.

After the run, Bretta and I went out to a local Chinese place for lunch. After my second order from the "lunch" menu we cracked into the fortune cookies. I got a great one:

You have great physical powers and an iron constitution.

I even got some lucky numbers out of the deal. Hell yea.

It was a great weekend. Now to work on my taper. Lots more speed work.... and hopefully more posts!

I went through this last year: what do you need to bring to Ironman? I know I brought way to much stuff with me. It was easy. I just kept stuffing things in the car until I ran out of stuff. When I got to Florida, it would have been easier to start a new life than re-pack.

This year will better. I have a plan. More importantly, I have a better list based on what did and didn't work so well.

True, I still need to decide on clothes and what-not, but, hey, that should technically be the easy part.