Woke up happy this morning to find that we did not receive the full 10 inches of snow that was forecast last night. My wonderful wife and I packed up Bella and dropped her off at school. Then we met my coach, Lisa Rainsberger, at the Canyon Cafe.
The meeting was too discuss my selfish desire to complete Ironmman Arizona before a deployment to Afghanistan. I figured it is the only way to guarantee I will get to make an attempt at scratching it off my bucket list.
We discussed that I would run two more half marathons, ride three centuries, three 4k swims and one half iron event leading up to the race.
It was good having Ann along because she was able to see the big picture and buy in to my selfish dream.
It is hard to believe that we went from 80 degrees to snow in 24 hours but this Georgia boy now knows that this is Colorado. I was a wimp of course so I waited until 8 PM and capitulated to running on the DREADmill at the gym. I learned that steak and cucumber and tomato salad is a poor pre run meal. I have never been accused of being very smart. But I did read an interview with world class triathlete on the plane last week that said he eats all kinds of crazy foods in training to build up his tolerance to food in the stomach. Maybe this is where the intestinal fortitude comes from in the ranger creed.
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