8:00am - Well, after a good night's sleep and a little email chat with Coach Vic, I'm much better today.  Coach Vic reminded me to "keep my eye on the ball", that the goal of this season is to successfully complete Timberman 70.3, not to place at the Marlboro Lions Sprint.  I also have plenty of room for improvement in nutrition, body composition, strength, etc. which will help my running.

Plan for the day:

• 12:00pm - Spinning class (and having fun) - 40 min
• 7:00pm - Running (and having fun) - 45 min

1:30pm - Spinning class was wicked (yes, I said wicked) hard today, but fun as well.  It was the last class for the instructor, who I really like but she's moving in a few weeks and having a baby soon.

Oddly enough, my experiences from racing the last two weekends kept me motivated on the bike today.  Whenever I started feeling that the class was too hard, I reminded myself that I came in first on the bike in both races, and that I was plenty strong enough to hammer through a spinning class.  By the end of class I was a bit tired, but I felt great.

6:00pm - Went for a run after work which was supposed to be 45 minutes, but my shins were hurting from the moment I started (even at a slow pace) so I had to call it quits after 30 minutes.  Came home and had dinner with the family, iced my shins afterwards and the pain had subsided.

7:30am - Rest day after yesterday's race, other than mowing the lawn tonight after work.

9:30am - Weighed in with health coach at work today, dropped another .8 pounds last week.  Probably would have been a bit more, but I pigged out last night after dinner - I was starving!

3:00pm - OK, so the results from yesterday have been posted, and now I am truly disgusted with myself.  I had the fastest damn swim time and fastest damn bike time in my division, and I still came in fourth!  Why?  Because I cannot run worth a damn!

Ugh.

http://www.firm-racing.com/result_report.asp?RID=582&type=4&cat=Clydesdale

6:00pm - Got out of work at 4:00, got home and got the grass cut before the family got home from swimming class.  Is it strange to love your lawn mower?

8:00am - Plan for the day:

• 7:00am - Lap swimming at Boston Sports Club (done)
• 7:00pm - Volleyball (last week of Friday night pick-up until the fall)

8:00am - Plan for the day:

• TBD - I had to get into work early and I need to leave early, so I have no idea what the day will bring.

9:00am - I just decided that I'm going to do the Lions Spring Sprint this weekend, so I think I may just take today as an unplanned rest day, instead of Sunday being my recovery day.

2:30pm - I was supposed to be having lunch today with Kate, Coach Vic and his wife who works in my office, but that fell through and I decided to go the gym for spinning class.  In the end, I'm glad I did because an instructor I know who races with Wheelworks Multisport was substituting today.

6:00pm - I was supposed to play volleyball tonight, but on the way home I got a call from my wife to meet them (her and the kids) at the Emergency Room.  One of my daughters fell on the playground after school and broke her arm.  :(  So, I had to go the ER and pick up my other daughter, take her home, feed her dinner and get her ready for bed.  By the time we got home and got dinner ready, my wife and daughter were home.  They wrapped her arm in some sort of splint, and she gets a cast in the morning.

6:30am - Plan for the day:

• 7:30am - Lap swimming at the YMCA
• 9:00am - School field trip with my kids
• 2:00pm - Cycling
• 7:30pm - Teach swim classes at the YMCA

8:30am - I really didn't feel like swimming today, but once I got to the "Y" and got in the water I was fine.  There were four lanes open (one slow, two medium, one fast) and all of them had two swimmers except for one of the medium lanes.  I was able to split the lane with a guy who appeared to be a freediver, as he was practicing swimming an entire lap along the bottom of the pool on one breath!  He had these enormous fins on, and it was pretty fun to watch.

1:00pm - The school field trip was pretty fun.  We went into Boston to Beacon Hill, the Esplanade and the Public Gardens, to follow the path of the ducklings from "Make Way for Ducklings".  Along the way we stopped and the teacher read the story to everyone.  As it turned out there were not enough seats on the bus for everyone, so I drove in with three of the other parents.  As we were talking, I learned that one is training for the Run to Remember (her first half marathon) and another is looking to get back into running.

3:30pm - After getting back home from the field trip I had some lunch, then went out for a bike ride.  Along the way I stopped several times because I heard a creaking noise, but I could not figure out where it was coming from.  I'll have to bring the bike to the LBS this weekend to have them take a look.

10:00pm - Swim class was a bit hectic tonight.  The first session went well because I only had 5 students, so I was able to do a lot of 1:1 work.  However, the second session had 12 students, which made for a pretty crowded pool.  We swim across the shallow end using three lanes, so the folks were pretty much shoulder to shoulder.  Afterwards a few folks wanted to stick around for some individual help, but by that time I had spent 2.5 hours in the water today and I was pretty cold.