"Eleven Weeks!"

Oh my goodness!!  With a minimum of three weeks taper that leaves 8 weeks of training.  I'm gonna need every minute of it.  In that time I have to do 5 long bike and run sessions, as well as a half Ironman.   Further to that, I think I'm gonna modify my schedule even more.  I will decide as this next week goes along, but I will probably go back to at least a 7 day schedule, maybe even eight, simply by adding more days of complete rest!  I think it's for the best, considering that I'm way too tired  having just come off of my easy week.  Tomorrow I will start by cutting my run/walk back even further, to that point that it's 2/3rds walking.  I can't quite believe I've come to that, but there you have it.  I think I can still achieve 7 min k's that way, but let's see if I can maintain it for 30 kms?  I may die of boredom!  Especially since I'm gonna do short loops up at the hospital, just so I can stay off the gravel.  Walking fast on stones is very fatiguing.

The strange, and I suppose truly wonderful thing, is that I still look forward to it.  It's gonna take me 3 1/2 hours and I'm looking forward to it!!!  Better than working for a living I guess.

I laughed at myself today when I was booking our RV spot in Mont Tremblant.  A truly sensible man may just pick a different site, if for no other reason than to do something different than the past 2 years. That man would however, be a lot less stubborn than me.  So it's Camping de la Diable, site # M14, same as always!!  Game on!  I'm gonna have to die this time before I quit again!

"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up."---Anna Lamott

Love
Peter