Not one triathlon this year...but there's always a silver lining

I got married. She has 2 kids. I have 1. We have 3. 9,5 and 4. Beast is the youngest.

I also got a new training partner.



I'm not going to say much in regards to the family other than life is good. Of course while building this relationship I've gained 20 pounds and life has been pushing me around ever since. By that I mean work...lots more work and the requisite family time. I've been running a couple of days a week. We have a yellow lab puppy named "Cooper". He's only 7 months old but I've got him running with me. Great running partner though I never take him over 5 miles. Not fast just slow and steady as I've not really been training for anything.

For Thanksgiving I did the Outback Distance Classic 6k (the distance part of that title is that there is also a half marathon). 6k in 27:32. That's a 7:33 pace for those who attend our public schools. Yes, I went to public school too :). Not bad for a 20 pounds overweight fatbody. So over the past few weeks I've been working on riding the bike and getting my endurance up. I've got my swimming to a mile in about 30 minutes and I've spent the better part of today (while smoking a turkey man is it good) setting up my 2008 Annual Training Plan (ATP).

I've attempted to find a race every month but because I'd like to do the Great Floridian (iron-distance) again I've had a hard time finding a couple half irons that fit the schedule. Potentials (pending availability of course) that I've put into the ATP as "B" races are the Gulf Coast Half on May 10th and then 2-3 Olys including St. Anthony's in April. Not a whole lot of halfs in Florida in the middle of summer. Something Mid August-Early September would be ideal. My new wife is encouraging me a great deal and I've been trying to warn her that all this can be very time consuming so we'll see how she feels mid-season. If its too much maybe I'll only do Florida Challenge (half) instead of GFT.

All of this is of course "Lord Willing" and provided I'm able to stay injury free etc. You know how it is.

PS If you've found me and you're wondering what happened to the old web site well I was paying for the domain etc because I used to like to do free lance work. When I let the hosting expire my blog settings went with it so essentially all I had to do was come into blogger and turn off the FTP must not have been that important.

PS PS Im going to be 30 in 3 days.....Lord Willing.

Luke 1:47 "My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,..."