Day 47: 5/31/2010

Last day of May. I was up at 5:20 and out the door before 6:00 AM. I met a friend and we rode a pretty quick pace on an out and back on highway 60 towards Magdalena. We rode for 1:45 and 35 miles. Then it was off to Albuquerque to have a day of fun. I drooled over some new Specialized Transition bikes at a shop there in Albuquerque.

Although I'm not really very happy with the way May ended, I was pleased to see that I had to go all the way back to July of 2006 to find a month that I did as many combined hours. I finished with a little more than 46.5 hours for the month. I swam 11 times for a total of 35,900 yards (~20 miles), I biked 10 times for 370 miles and I ran 12 times for 98 miles total.

Like I said, I am proud of this but at the same time I know that I took too many days off and had to many single workout days during the month of May. If I matched some personal bests with this effort, I know I can surpass these marks next month. In 2004, I had 3 months where I had over 40 hours in the month. In 2006, I only had one, and I haven't been able to match these since. It feels good and I'm starting to notice I look a little leaner in the mirror.

Coming up, I have the Deuces Wild triathlon festival this coming weekend in Show Low, AZ. I have an Olympic distance race on Saturday and an Xterra on Sunday. I have done these races for the last 2 years and I plan to PR both races and be a little more competitive in my age group. After the festival I will have a solid 3 weeks of training leading up to BSLT 70.3 in Lubbock. This race will be a qualifier for Ironman and a race that I need to finish to validate my slot for Ironman. I PR'ed the race last year but not with a PR for the distance. I have some goals in mind for this year but more on that as the time comes up. After BSLT, the real Ironman training begins :^)

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