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Ick.

I've been a bad, bad blogger. I stopped my triathlon blog cold turkey. After IM-CDA, the body kind of gave up. I didn't run, swim, or bike for two weeks but otherwise had a good time. I think I had hurt my lower right leg just before or during IM.

Then I did an Olympic triathlon at Mercer Country Park. An Olympic, on four weeks of solid ass sitting. Didn't do badly. In fact, it was a PR at 2:39. Felt a little tuckered at the end and wondered how much better it would have been if I hadn't dicked around for a month and instead kept at my training.

Then did some travel for work. A small run or two out in Portland, OR. Nice place, Portland. Wouldn't hurt my feeling to abandon NJ and move out there. The Loving Wife™ doesn't think this would be a good idea. Were negotiating.

In the middle of the trip to Portland, I got a call from work: "You got a passport? Free next week?" With a "yes" to both, it was off to Paris, France, for a meeting. Yes, one meeting. Paris was okay, but 13 hours in an airplane in 3 days saps your strength.

The morning after I got back, did a sprint. Felt okay, but nothing great. A fun race, sure, but I was way more tired than I needed to be. Time was off too -- 2 minutes slower than last year. Not working out for 2+ months and an 8-hour flight the day before will do that to you.

I tried to get back on the training band wagon. A swim here, small run there. Then I over did it. 18-mile long, not-so-slow run with friends. My leg, which had been hurting since after IM-CDA, had been feeling a little worse with each under-trained for event kept complaining, but didn't hurt enough to stop me (you can run through a lot if you put your mind to it), finally started hurting enough for me to see a doctor.

Yea! Stress fracture of the right tibia. Cool, huh?

Had to abandon the Marine Corps Marathon and another late-season tri. That, even more than lack of training sucked out ever was left of my will to train.

That was 5 weeks ago. 2-more weeks until I see the MD again. I've started to swim a bit here and there. This weekend I'm aiming for a 2-hour bike ride — can't stand on the pedals so the seated climb will be my friend. Next week we think about time on the Elliptical.

Need to get moving though and the stupid leg needs to get better. Only a few more weeks until the Goofy Challenge.

I'll also try to start blogging again (in addition to the main blog and my work at Nation States.