Pre-Race: IMKS 70.3 2010

I can't sleep.

I have a half ironman in less than 5 days.

I don't really have the mental capacity to write a full blog post, but I have to write something.

I'm not nervous, or anything. Just can't sleep. It's like I can feel individual synapses firing in my brain when I lay still enough. Gah.

I'm so ready for this race. Should have started training about a month later than I did. I feel like I've had six weeks of tapering. My base building was done eons ago. I know I have the fitness to get through the race. And maybe all the sharpening has put me in position to go faster than ever. What do we think? Definitely sub-6:00. Maybe a 2:05 1/2 marathon? How about I really go for it and shoot for a 1/2 marathon PR? No, I don't think that's realistic. But sub-6:00? Hell yeah.

Okay. I'm going to go try to sleep again.

T Minus 4

Rest yesterday, rest today. Easy run tomorrow with short, intense intervals (just to remind my legs what to do). And packing! Because on Saturday I get to go to Shawnee Mission!

In other news, I got a call from the Multisport director at Genesis, today. We'll be meeting on Monday to discuss the possibility of me taking over the West Central Multisport Club. Which would be awesome.

I don't know what I'm going to do for spinning class on Monday; I doubt I'm going to be able to maintain the level of intensity I would expect from my students. Maybe a climbing workout is the way to go. With lots of climbing, my heart rate won't climb as high as if we do a lot of speedwork. I'm sure my heart rate will still be much higher than normal, but I hope it won't be so high that I can't set an example for intensity for my class.

Thursday, April 12 - Friday, April 13

Food
Lost track

Training
Swimming class
Two-mile tempo run on Thursday

Summary
I don't know if I would say that I fell off the wagon, towards the end of the week. I've been keeping track of my eating and training really diligently. I felt like I should have the freedom to have a day off if I wanted it. Additionally, Thursday I started tapering for my the UCSB race. So I was focusing on a brief recovery phase and allowing myself to eat, well, not whatever I want, but more food and different kinds of food than what I would normally allow myself to eat. Like chips and trail mix. And booze. Empty calories. I haven't really permitted myself a lot of empty calories lately, but I went a little bit crazy. Made a run to Ralph's for cinnamon rolls. Yummy!