Biked for 12 miles. Avg'd 21.2 mph. Ran 2 miles after. Legs felt good. 1st mile was 6:57. Didn't feel like I was going that fast. Wasn't wearing my heart rate monitor but my HR didn't feel like it was too high. Total time 45 min. Wore my Asics 2120s.

Ran 10 miles at Seabourne park after work. Used my DS Trainers. Finished up around 8:30 pm. Total time 1:21. Average pace around 7:45. Used my heart rate monitor and averaged around 139 for HR. Not bad for pace. Started thinking during run, that if I can run close to or slightly below 8 min miles, (3:30) it would be a decent time for a marathon for the ironman. I'll be happy if I do this.

Swam at Y after work. Did 3000 yds, timing every 300 yds. Triceps feld very tired on first 400 yds, then started feeling better the more I swam. Thought I had been doing enough tricep strength training on days that I workout arms, but apparently not. Felt good that I was able to do 3000 yds. Still feels very awkward when I try to breathe to my left side. Practicing doing this but it seems un-natural. I end up resorting to my right sided breathing. Averaged about 6:30 per 300. Not bad. I think if I can keep this pace for the ironman 2.4 miles, I can do pretty decent (by my standards) on the swim. total time 1:08

Did 30 minutes on bike trainer. Lots of spinning.

Went biking with my training buddy/coach today. He motivated me and I motivated him. Wasn't planning on biking. Too cold, but tuffed it out and still went. Warmed up pretty good but only did a 20. Coach Joe was going to church and had to quit early. Think I'll go out on my own next week if coach can't go long. Had trouble getting above 20 mph. It was a struggle. Can't really pin point what it was but legs felt very sluggish. Did 3 miles after the bike in about 7:10 pace. Drove home and then ran another 7 miles out and back on Spacek Route. 7:38 going out and 7:11 pace coming back. Good run. Used my Asics 2120s.
Total time 2 hrs 14 min.

Got home with Chinese food hot & ready, Rocky Balboa movie ready in DVD player. What the heck, another day off won't hurt. May is just around the corner. Rocky was therapy for my motivation for me. Ready to hit it hard tomorrow.

Ran 8 miles at the Terry HS track. Legs feeling kind of tired esp. calves. Used my Asics DS Trainers, ran at a slow pace - approx 7:55 pace. After 4 miles, did some fartlek for a change. Sprinted the straights and jogged the curves. Did this for 3 miles. Felt pretty good on the sprints. C/D with 1 mile easy pace. Weather was kind of warm an humid. Total time was 1 hr 3 min. Feeling a little better today after yesterdays' low point. Seems like my life right now is work, train (bike, swim, run), eat, sleep, with very little family interaction except for my day off - Sunday, which I do a long bike and wear myself out. All work and no play makes me more LOCO.

For some reason, I feel so unmotivated, physically and emotionally tired. Don't know exactly what it is, but my long hours seem to be the main culprit. Maybe I need to race, the competition usually hypes me up. haven't done any races since Blue Norther' Duathlon. Got home today, and didn't even consider going out to run or swim. The thought of swimming did cross my mind, but seeing dinner ready and not being able to have a bite until after my swim (an hour and half later @ 9 pm) just didn't feel right.

I keep telling myself that I will go long tomorrow, but then again I don't see the time in the day for this. I need to get a very long run in soon. 10 miles is just not going to cut it. I also keep thinking that the month of May will be my hardest month of training and I will cram for the ironman on this month, but this breaks all the rules of ironman training. When most people are cutting back on their training, I am ramping it up for my hardest month of all. What is there to look forward to. Am I going just to finish or for time. The only thing that I have going for me is that I am a low mileage marathoner and hopefully that also applies to Ironman. I hope that my Ironman will be decent with the low training miles that I have been doing. The month of May is the only thing I have to look forward to. Hopefully, I don't burnt myself out. I wish May was tomorrow so I could go punish my body and feel good about it and finally get my motivation and confidence up.

Morning felt cool, ran to the local park and did loops. 7.5 miles at about 7:45 pace. Used my Gel 2120s. TT = 59 minutes.

Woke up feeling well rested after my ~11 hours of sleep. Went to the Y to swim before leaving to SATX, but the pool was closed - too much chlorine. Went home and did a hard 15 on the bike. Avg'ed 21.5 with stops, turns, etc. Felt good. TT = 43 min.