So yeah

I am sorry to anyone who actually tries to read this on a daily basis, not sure if anyone actually does, but first week of class nuttiness has caused me to get a little lax in the blogging area. My workouts have been kicking ass. Been running in the morning and spinning in the evenings. Not running this morning becuase those muscles need a break and the fact that I was out at Club Feve until 3 last night does not help in the whole get up and go run attitude. But is was a good time, had a couple drinks, danced a little (well if you can call what I was doing dancing), played some shuffle board, and caught up with a crowd i rarely see anymore, my friends who go out and party and drink. So all in all a good time. planning on getting a solid spin in this afternoon and relaxing tonight. WE have a cycling team party on saturday which I will be attending and drinking a fair amount so trying to plan a long cycling team spin for earlier that day. prepping my video to try to join team EvoTri I will post it here when I finish it up . Adios everyone

Qiuck Post

I am in the middle of packing my car for my last trip out to South Bend to my final semester at Notre Dame. This is so surreal I don't even know what to say. I did not have a chance to workout today but have been busy so its an active day off. Prob wont get a workout in tomorrow but possible if we make good time getting out there. Anyways back to packing I go...

So yeah about this posting everyday

So as you can tell posting everyday has begun. I assume that once I get myself back to school I will have a much more set schedule and will be able to hit this blog up everyday even better than now. As for how training is going so far this week, it is going well. I am already seeing fat loss according to the scale, weight loss not yet but that has to do with me upping my water intake again so that I am staying more hydrated and am able to have better workouts. I am trying to decide what plan I am going to use for my training or my half ironman, right now it is kind of haphazard just get some volume in to begin as I build up my wealth of knowledge on plans again. Any suggestions are always welcomed.

New Year horrible off season

So my off season fell apart and well I know I can make all sorts of different excuses but none of them are even going to begin to justify it to myself. I know i screwed up, I did not make the time or the effort to keep myself at the fitness level I was at. I am now officially registered for the Patriot Triathlon on July 5th of this year, it is a half-iron distance tri, out of Freetown, MA. I raced it last year and am looking to really improve my time. I know the spring holds a lot of interesting opportunities for me: I am now on the cycling team at school so that means I will have the opportunity to race about 8 weekends this spring if I want to. I also am looking for a marathon to run in the April to May time frame, there is a half marathon run on campus in the spring along with countless 5Ks which I am sure I will run a fair amount of. And lastly the biggest opportunity, I graduate this spring and move on to an actual career. I already have a job so i do not need to worry about that which is wicked nice, and I also know that I have about 2 months off before my half ironman in which I am going to have nothing else to do except train (very giddy about that). I am planning on being much better with this blog, updating on a daily basis even if it is just something as simple as today's workouts are gonna suck or something like that. For now I am off to the gym shortly to build my stamina back up which I do not think will take to long, the hardest part is going to be burning off the weight I added, about 10 lbs. So for now I will catch you later, maybe even running outside it is gorgeous out again today.

Hi everyone, its been a while

So I haven't updated lately because well my life has been go, go, go for the past few weeks and even the little things like sleeping have taken the back seat to Lab Reports, Problem Sets, tests and review sessions for Finals. My training has been greatly reduced but I am getting it in when I can, it has been hard to really find the motivation without being signed up for any races yet. I know that Ironman opened up a new race in November in AZ but after my debacle with attempting to sign up for IMFL and dealing with the anger and crapola that caused, I decided Ironman would have to wait a year. This really does make more sense in the end. In a little over six months from now I will be starting a new job and working some crazy hours in an area that I don't even know yet.

So this brings me to my "plan" for next season. I have two races that I know I am doing for sure: The Holy Half Marathon here at Notre Dame, they haven't released a date yet and the Patriot Half Ironman in Freetown, MA on July 5th. I am looking for a Spring and Fall full Marathon and a possible fall Half-ironman. And maybe throwing in some Shorter 5Ks or 10Ks or half marathons. I will also be racing for the Notre Dame cycling team starting in February, thats going to be some cold races.

So in recap, training is slowly beginning again but far from full swing. I am also pretty much a TTW challenge dropout now because of how poor my training has been with sickness injury and time, but congrats to everyone who has kept it up. I also hope to be updating more.

Oh yeah, what I am doing with all the money I saved not being able to register for Ironman, season pass to Sunday River, ME for when I am home to get back on my snowboard and really shred it up. I have to get my legs back into great shape again quick, they are pretty solid right now but not ideal.

And its all down hill from here...

So yesterday was my last Notre Dame football home game as a student. It is a very depressing thing or that to really be true. We have ad such an abysmal season and finally got a home win to go out on a.. well I want to say high not but we only beat Duke, so I will just say we went out on a mid-range note. I stayed in the stadium as long as I could after the game, there were definitely tears in my eyes I wont lie about that. I was standing there looking around the stadium and realized how fast the past three years at this amazing school have been, how much I have grown and how everything really revolves around football. I remember last year after the last home game the thought was okay whens the next season start, last night standing there I wanted to think that but the thought was more whens the next time I will be able to make it out here for a game. And I could not come up with an answer. I have a job lined up for after graduation but I don't know where I will be with it and I don't know what will be going on in my life in 6 months really. That is scaring the crap out of me. The fact that my there is nothing to look forward to really in my college career anymore that it is all down hill from here, is something I never thought I would have to deal with. It has seemed so far off. Even when I got the job or when my friends have been getting engaged or married, I was denying that the real world was coming soon. And know here I am sitting with the real world at the door step and for pretty much the first time in my life I am kind of afraid to start this next chapter. Which is really uncharacteristic of me, I always am willing to jump right into things and go full blast, doing a half-iron man and full marathon in my first endurance sport season as an example. But here I am doubting myself and it is a weird feeling. I have a feeling this whole confusion about the next step in my life also has something to do with my turmoil that is my race season next year, well at least thats not helping. I have been defining every plan that I have made for the past year with my training and without a race my training has gone out the window and so has my structured brain too.

Well I am scared right now, I know that I will make it out in the end, I always have and refuse to quit so I know I will make it no matter how battered and bruised I come out in the end. The issue is just getting control of my scattered brain right now. Thinking about my future career, future relationships (if any haven't had luck in that department in a while), future opportunities to grow; well just the future in general has made me start to go nutty. I think I need some of the therapy I used to get when in a situation like this, good old mountain therapy. Go push my limits screaming down a hill attached to my snowboard fo some reason has always helped clear my mind and settle everything back down. That will have to happen soon...

Active.com can burn in hell

While attempting to register for IMFL today on the last page of registration where you hit submit so that they can charge your credit card, I hit submit and the page times out. I try to go back and hit submit again and it punts me out of the system and asks me to login again. I login again and try to register again from the beginning and guess what its god-damn full! ACTIVE.COM CAN GO BURN IN A FIREY HELL. I know there may be community fund slots but being a college senior graduating in May I barely have enough money to allow myself to register and train never mind and extra 500 sitting around to give to charity. There goes all of my goals for next race season, all of the planning I had done to get myself ready to compete at that distance, out the window say good bye. F%&K!