Reality check...

Ok... so sometimes in life we have to look at things realistically. A few posts ago I mentioned that my goal for the fall was to do the Sprint Triathlon in September. Well I had a pretty big reality check when I started training for the swimming section of the race... hmmm... a little harder than I thought... actually much harder than I though. It had been 5 months since I had been in the pool and for some reason I figured that it would be very easy to ease back in to the pool... not so. Then I went for a bike ride along the Olympic Basin (where the race is to be held) and I actually cycled next to the 750m where I was to be swimming. WTF was I thinking!? Holy crap 750m is long AND, it's in open water?! No ledges to take a rest between laps!!! That's just crazy. SO, all this to say, that I've decided to go back to my original goal of completing the 5k @ the Montreal Marathon, which is the day before the Triathlon. This is a much more realistic goal AND, looking at where I was in April health wise... this is quite an achievement. Nothing to balk at... seriously. PLUS all this training, I've gone from being 235lbs, to 218! 17lbs gone! I'm pretty happy about that... although when I started training, I told myself that amount of weight I lost was not my ultimate goal. I wanted to increase, my fitness level, my endurence and I wanted to slim down. I set no real numeric weight goals as in general I find that they can be quite misleading... muscle weighs quite a bit.

Tonight I went for another run... the first run in about a week and a half and I've managed to up my distance, by about another 500m. So now, I'm "running" 5.75k in 46 minutes. To think that in May I had a hard time running 500m.