Welcome Back, Your dreams were your ticket out

Hola! Long time no see! I wonder how many times I've now come back to this blog with reports of running and dreams of races never seen.

Just another blog that never gets updated. For the first time since my divorce I actually have a membership to a pool. This past weekend I swam 3000(not continuous) for the first time since the Great Floridian race over 3 YEARS AGO.

Holy Cow Batman!

On the family front we are on official countdown now. The baby is due on January 6th. My wife is a private person so I'm going to limit the inclusion of family in the majority of posts going forward.

Here's the real kicker. Since getting remarried I've gained 30lbs. All that work to get rid of this sludge in the first place and its just steadily crept back. I've been training for 3 weeks straight now and my endurance is getting better every day but I've just not been able to drop the weight yet.

I've laid out my 2009 ATP (Annual Training Plan) with my first 'A' race being the gate river run in March with a goal of being top 1000. I figure that means I need to run it in the 1:10 range. We'll see right now I'm running just a touch more than 5 miles an hour in Zone 1. And about that St. Anthony's that I mentioned 2 or 3 posts ago ALMOST A YEAR AGO? That registration was deferred to this year. No way I'm missing it this time around.....

Some visual evidence....a picture from my 30 mile ride on Sunday.

I promise I will be back to post the progress.