Holy Crap

So I am sitting at work today, yes I am working on a Sunday, its not too bad double time but anyways. I am thinking about my interview tomorrow which could be the first interview that starts my career with GE and that is kinda freaking me out. I do not feel old enough to be starting a career. And I am slightly nervous which is a completly new feeling going into an interview. I do not know what I am going to do.

Anyways marathon training is going well had a nice 10 mi run this morning and it felt pretty solid after working out some kinks in the first half mile (wierd quad twinge, shoe tightness.) I bought another pair of the same shoes to start rotating shoes in and be ready to swithc my shoes and socks at the 13.1 mi marker of the race to feel fresh even if I am not all that fresh.

Where did the summer go?

Warning this entry is really scattered kinda how my head is right now.

So I am sitting here pretending to work thinking about this summer and am shocked as to how fast it has gone. It really feels like I started working here only a couple days ago and now I only have 14 days left including today, well really like 13 because my last day is aparently a softball tournement. I really cannot believe what I have accomplished this summer, an International Tri, a Half-Ironman and marathon training, who the hell could have ever predicted this. Certainly not me. I am approaching the infamous 200 lbs mark right now something I have not been below probably since early high school sometime.

I cannot wait to get home in just under 3 weeks now, getting to see everyone I have not seen for an exteneded period of time in a long time will be really nice. Hopefully get the old beach crew together to just catch up and have a few drinks, something we have been doing together for a very long time which is just hillarious.

I am sad that the Harry Potter series is now over I finished the last book on Sunday and now do not know what to do with myself. once all of the movies are done I will truly be at a loss.

Since noone really reads this I can say this without anyone really finding out, I met a really cool young lady the other day it just sucks that I am leaving so soon and met her this late so nothing can really happen at least not yet. Oh well thats just my luck right?

I have to start packing up my apartment and figure out what I am going to do with all of my crap and how I am going to fit it all in the car considering it was a tight fit coming here and then I had to buy stuff to live in an apartment. Such is life I guess.

Okay that is all for now maybe more will come later who knows depends on how busy we get today in teh Jet Engine Factory.

ya so i havent been around

Ya so alot had been going on since my racew which was fantastic I wanted to post a race report but the time for that has really come and gone. I finished my first half-ironman ever in 6:33:36 and that set of numbers is something that will stick with me forever. I rode in the MS 150 last weekend which was a blast and something that anyone can really do. I have decided that the next step along my road to becoming iron is to run a marathon. And what better time to train for one than when I am in great physical condition with a solid base already. The marathon I will most likely be racing in is the Quad Cities Marathon on September 23rd. 10 weeks from tomorrow. People keep asking me if I will be ready and I just look at them smile and say the plan will get me there I have to trust it. It really isnt about the race anyways, it is about the training. Putting in the long hours and early weekend morning when I have friends who are finishing their last beer as I hit the pavement to go run. Its about loving what I am doing not just for the physical changes but for the mental changes. I have written alot that I have changed and tonight I realized that alot people outside of this world of endurance sport just dont get what it takes and what it means to each one of us individually. Cest le vie.

So here are my next steps goals and stretches:
Finish the marathon, stretch - 4 hours
192lbs, stretch - 185lbs

Have a good one everyone, I am trying to update more but my computer is broken so I am updating from my friends right now.

Today is the day

Today is the day, now is the time. Give it all you have got and show them all what you can do!