Crazy Times

So I've been missing in action for the last two weeks and I think I have a couple of decent reasons for not updating my blog.

1. I defended my doctoral dissertation a week ago and for some reason, that whole process consumed a decent bit of my time. I think like many triathletes, I have a penchant for punishment. Who in their right mind celebrates the completion of a Ph.D. by training for an Ironman?

2. After my defense, my wife and I had about 3 days to celebrate, pack our place, and drive to Baltimore so that I could begin my job on Monday (yes yesterday). Needless to say, it's been a wild ride for the past couple weeks.

Somehow, throughout this process I've managed to keep a decent training schedule and now I'm starting to get back into the full swing of things here in Baltimore. As far as workouts are concerned, today was an hour on the trainer with 8 sprint intervals and tomorrow has a moderate intensity run in the morning and a Master's workout in the evening.

I think I've settled on joining a local Master's group at Merritt Athletic Club for weekday workouts, and I'm considering doing Saturday swims with the Master's group at Meadowbrook. Fortunately, these practices start bright and early at 6:30am. If I can manage to actually roll out of bed around 5:30, I can swim, eat breakfast, and then join a local group ride at Tri-Speed (http://www.tri-speed.com) at 8:30. That way I could actually get a bit of rest on Sunday and not have to worry about doing both a swim and run. I guess we'll see how well that works in the upcoming weeks.


Until next time!