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Monthly Summary – February 2011

Here’s February 2011:

Swim: 22,600 meters
Cycling (outdoors): 148.8 miles
Cycling (indoors): 7:05 (hours)
Run: 82.5 miles
Strength Training/Yoga: 5 sessions

Approximate monthly total training/racing time: 45:30 hours

Weight: a few pounds too heavy… whatever

I’m still finding my way back into this stuff. And trying to find the place where I’m doing enough to make me happy and fit but not so much that I get myself overwhelmed or injured. I feel like I’m finding something like that these days.

I’m in a general rhythm with the swimming, getting there with the cycling (though I do need to get on the bike more, especially outside on the bike more) and the run is finally starting to come back as well. The biggest challenge I’m having is squeezing it all in each week. Being a runner – even an ultrarunner – is so much easier than trying to be a triathlete.  Looking at my numbers from the month, I think I did a pretty good job balancing it all.

We got back today from spending a few days in Washington DC visiting family. We had one day of rain but the rest of the weekend was beautiful, cool, sunny, pre-spring weather. I went for a couple good runs, including one through the Rock Creek Park trails with Assaf. He pushed me a little and we ran a nice route with rolling hills.

The big news this month was making the decision to race at Wildflower. After thinking about it for a couple months, I finally decided I was in a good enough mental and physical place to sign up for a tough half ironman. My training is going well enough that I think I can get prepared without cramming.

If my training during March and April are like February, I’ll toe the line at Wildflower feeling pretty good about myself.

We’ve been doing a fair amount of hiking with the boys this year. Regular trip to Runyon and most weekends we’ll meet up with Loren and person-Charlie and their dogs, Birdie and Oscar, to go for a hike. Here’s a picture of the crowd during a recent hike at Griffith Park:

And this is what generally happens on the way home from a hike:

And this is, well… I’m not sure what this is.  Except maybe the craziest way to sleep ever: