5:45pm I need to do something different about nutrition as I do my winter to summer switchover from almost all morning workouts to some evening workouts. I am SO hungry when I get home from work. The two vanilla wafers I ate before my run lasted about 5 minutes of my warm up walk. So I was basically hungry the whole run. Not fun! I forget what I did last year. Probably didn't log it either. Oh well, I'll figure it out.

Walking before and after run. 1 mile each way.

Walking before and after run. 1 mile each way.

I need to remind myself that this early season tri is really a "C" race for me.  Not that I really have A, B and C races, but I scheduled this tri knowing that my bike time would be lacking and that I would be tired from spring turkey season.  So why I am so concerned about how I do in this race?  It really does not matter other than to go and have fun.  I get to practice things for later tri's this summer.  It's all good.  It should not be stressful!  (Although the weatherman is trying to make it stressful by predicting cold and possibly rainy.  Ugh!)

Latest triathlon dream from last night:

My mom (who was age 51 in my dream, would mean she gave birth to me when she was like 5 years old, LOL), my friend Sue and I did an Ironman.  The swim was in a river:  1 mile upstream and 1.4 miles downstream.  I finished MOP and my swim time was 10 minutes.  heehee!  I remember feeling really good and had someone drafting off my feet the whole swim.  I had the same issues as the last dream of leaving stuff in my car and having to go get it out and carry it to the transition area during the race.  What's up with that?  I don't remember the bike much.  I do remember the marathon.  Sue and my mom and I were running together.  All of us were doing so good and felt good.  Toward the end I was calling people on my cell phone that I was carrying and telling them we were going to finish an Ironman race.  We finished the race in something like 12 hours.  None of us were sore or even felt like we had run a race.  We walked around a lot and waited and cheered for the later finishers.   Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh dreams!  :)  :)  :)  This is as close as I'll ever come to an Ironman.  I have absolutely no desire to train for one, but it was fun in my dream.

7am lap swim.
Warm up: 100y breast, 100y free
500y free. 2:12 (nice for me, but unsustainable. boo!), 2:21, 2:20, 2:23, 2:19 = 11:35. Actually it was 11:38 with all the hundreths of seconds added. I seeded myself for 11:40 at the tri. Pretty darn close. But they are splitting lanes at the tri anyway so it doesn't really matter.
50y breast
500y free easy. 2:26, 2:27, 2:31, 2:28, 2:24 = 12:16.
Cool down: Alternate 50y breast/free for 250y.

7:30pm Walk 2 miles. First mile 15:05. Second mile 13:55.

9am. I didn't feel this fast. My legs felt good, but overall my body feels tired. Going to take a couple weeks to recover from the sleep deprivation of the last few weeks.

Temp starting out was around 47F. Sprinkled a little bit in the middle, but not even enough to get wet.

Walking split before and after run.

Been awhile since I did a good focused stretching session afterwards. Felt good!

Walking split before and after run.

Been awhile since I did a good focused stretching session afterwards. Felt good!

Had a triathlon dream while taking a quick post lunch nap.  What could go wrong?  The race must have started on the bike.  Pretty much the only thing I remember here was I got "stuck" behind some guy on a fancy road bike.  I would catch him and start to pass and then he would speed up.  This happened over and over and over again.  I was so worried I was going to get called for drafting.  We came into transition together side by side.   I was looking all over for my place in transition.  I found my spot, but I forgot to put my stuff there.  I had to go to my car and get my running shoes.  I drove my car over to transition, grabbed my running shoes and went to my transition spot to change shoes.  So then I am sitting down changing shoes and I get in a LONG conversation with a couple other racers and we talk about bike shoes and how ugly most of them are these days.  We talked about where to buy shoes local and Dick's has good deals.  ????   So now I am ready to run, but first I have to park my car again.  I am thinking the run course starts out on the bike course so I head that way and park my car.  Then I realize I am going the wrong way so I have to go back to my car, drive and park back at the race site and start my run again.  That's when I realize that I didn't go to the pre-race meeting and I didn't get assigned a chip so my race is not being timed.  I start running anyway because I am keeping time on my watch, but I can't run at all.  Typical slow motion dream stuff.  Finally I woke up.

Swim not happening.  Just spent 2 1/2 hours finishing up weeding the flower beds and I'm beat.  I've got to get to the pool sometime this week before the tri.  This really sucks.  I have way too many things to do.

5pm Leisurely exploration of Mill Creek Metropark in Youngstown. I drove down to ride the section of next weekend's bike course that goes through the park. VERY hilly for this flatlander. Should make the run suck. LOL! Rode a loop around the park including a bit on the bike and hike trail. Too bad this park is an hour away. It's very pretty and a nice place to ride.

When I got up this morning (at 4am to go turkey hunting), the weather service was predicting sunny skies and 63F high temperature today.  Started off sunny, well until around 10am.   At noon it was 51F, cloudy and raining.  So much for that.  By afternoon, it was dry, but windy and still cloudy and in the low 50's.  That's what happens when the north wind blows over a large body of cold water.  Chilly!!!!!!  Drove the 50 miles south to ride part of the triathlon bike course and down there it was sunny and 65F.  Hmmmm 15 degrees warmer every 50 miles south?  I wonder what the temperature would be in Florida?