A Little Vacation

I seem to have taken a little vacation from Blogging. Life has been pretty busy and thankfully nobody in the house is sick. Oh no, did I just doom the entire house to suffer the flu? It seems everyone at work is sick, which is kind of nice since there are fewer people to bug me for stuff!

Last weekend I was supposed to do the WSMR duathlon, which is actually a 5k run and a 30 k bike sans the extra run on the end. While a friend was checking on base housing he found out my name wasn’t on the registration. Darn it, I sent my registration in weeks ago and since there is no race day registration I’m was out of luck. I was really planning on getting in a good early season of racing so I can concentrate on IMAZ in November. Well, It’s just one race but I already feel like I’m behind schedule for my 8 races in for the SWCS.

Since the race day was canceled and I had already shipped the kids off to their mothers house I had all morning to workout. I headed out for a long run, 17 miles worth of long run. Normally 17 miles isn’t that big of a deal but I haven’t run more than 10 miles in at least 3 months. By the time I was done I was really tired, legs were rubber, feet hurt, toe hurt, toe nails hurt. Yeah, it was fun, right… But it was also the first long run getting ready for the Bataan memorial marathon.