You: "Yeah, it sure is nice you finally decided to return to your blog and start blogging again..."
Me: "Shut up, I have been busy."
You: "Sure you have, if you are busy now, how do you expect to blog when you are in full on ironman training next year!?"
Me: "That is a good question... you will just have to wait and see!"
You: "I've been waiting more than 2 months since you last posted!"
Me: "I know, I know... hang in there though I promise I will update more. But I am not going to promise grammatical accuracy!"
Welcome back to my journey! As you can probably tell, I haven't been on here much lately. Sitting in front of a computer for 9+ hours a day at the office does not make me all that enthusiastic about coming home and getting back on the computer to blog for the better part of 30 minutes. Now if I could only make a billing group for blogging to bill my time at the office... Not going to happen.
It is not that I have had nothing to blog about. Actually I have had lots of things to blog about since I last posted. Most importantly being signing up for Ironman Wisconsin 2012, joining the Endurance House Becoming an Ironman Team, and starting my pretraining training this week. It is finally time to put the pedal to the metal and get back in the swing of training.
The team seems like it is going to be pretty cool. Right now we are just focusing on core strength (which pairs well with my physical therapy on my right hip flexor, the one that was causing me ALL that pain earlier in the year) and doing small amounts of swimming, biking, and running. Oh yeah, I am running again, though I feel like an old man since I have to do my 5 minute walk warm up, then stretch for 5 minutes, then run at a super slow pace. Nonetheless, I am running again and it feels good.
Our first team meeting was more or less a meet and greet a few weeks ago where the coaches introduced themselves and gave us a run through of what we could expect. One of the coaches and co-owners of Endurance, Jamie Osbourne, said it best when describing what we would be going through in the next year, "They don't call it Easyman... They call it Ironman." I thought that was really appropriate and reminded me of an old marching band slogan, "If it was easy, anyone could do it." It all boils down to working hard to be rewarded at the end for putting in the hours of preparation.
There will be various group workshops (monthly) and group workouts (at least once a week) that are part of the team. The first group workshop is in 2 weeks and focuses on core strength. I am always looking for different core exercises. There seem to be an endless array of ways to strengthen your core, and I feel that the more of them you know, the more you will do, and the better off you will be. I have finally started focusing more on my core strength as a result of the PT I am doing, and I really feel like it is paying off. I have had much less back pain than before and I just feel more stable in my core. I need to make sure that I continue to work my core even when I am doing 20 hour workout weeks when the last thing I want to do after a 6 hour bike ride is planks or whatever crazy exercise I learn between now and then.
Being part of the team we get a lot of "free" perks. I use "free" since we paid for the team, but they are still sweet perks. I just picked up my team shirt tonight and it is a really nice long sleeve wicking shirt. I will also be getting a Endurance House tri top and shorts for being on the team.
Last thing, real quick. Check out the bike I will be getting before the end of the year. Laura will be getting the exact same model, but in the women's specific (basically girly colors and a female saddle). I can't wait to mount this baby up and get out on the road!
Speed Concept 7.8. Beautiful. Can't wait. Hell yeah!
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