Ironman Lottery

I signed up for the Ironman Hawaii lottery. There are 150 spots that are awarded. So, I threw down the $90 for a chance to get in. The likely hood of me hitting a qualifying time is slim.



If I get selected, by some miracle, the date is October 9th, 2010. Wisconsin is September 12th, 2010.... then three weeks later I would have to do it again in Hawaii. Not an ideal plan for my heart and ligaments and such.

I didn't write much this week. It was so gray and depressing mostly. I log all my activities in a training log (left at work) so I can't remember all that I did this week...not as much as I planned to do. This morning I road hard for an hour with the Men of Steel Racing club, then I swam hard later - 800 SKPS, 4 x100 IM, 4 x 100 FREE...held 1:00 on the 100's free, not so bad.

Yesterday I took the dog on my run. Running with a puppy is a 'whole-nother' story, as they say in Indiana (maybe it's a Midwest phenomenon?). He tangles the leash around my legs, darts suddenly at the sight of squirrels, stops abruptly to smell the yellow spots in the snow, sometimes runs hard to point of strangulation, and other times trails behind lackadaisically. I let him off leash a few times and he ran along surprisingly well. The weather was horrible - cold and blowing snow. We did sprints together across the wind-swept barren golf course near my house.