New Direction

I've completed my first month of training for the 70.3, just leaving behind a recovery week, so it's time to reevaluate my training.

I am already easily swimming more than a mile non-stop in training so I don't think I will increase the swim yards as directed because I don't feel it's necessary. I just want to keep up the form. But I'll still swim at least two days a week if I can. I enjoy swimming very much. It's relaxing. I will continue to increase the run and bike as directed, but I need to add more core strength training, so I will try to slot that in a few days per week.

I need to get with John on my road bike fit. I did two road rides this week of at least one-and-a-half hours and experiences the usual burning pain in my left upper back, inside the scapular area. On my old road bike John drastically lowered the bars. I didn't get to ride it much that way, but as I recall it did help the back pain. (Still, I felt so low I could have been a Ferrari!) I just don't want to lose my sweet Ritchey carbon stem! Maybe he can just flip it instead of giving me one of those negative rise stems.

Speaking of John: it doesn't feel like I'm earning my keep this week because no one is talking about saddle issues on the Forums. Everyone is into running and swimming right now.

On a completely different topic: I took Jim's Motorola Q9C back and exchanged it for an LG AX300. Even then, when I brought it home to him (activated this time), he acted as though I had brought him a dead albatross. He kept up a constant monologue as he dove right in without reading the manual (something he would never do if it was his purchase), popping me with questions about this specific model. I was a littlle PO'd and just answered a steady "I don't know." This morning, he was playing with it some more so I think he's finally starting to accept it. He even spoke of dropping our land line service if we can manage good reception on these phones. (We've had poor reception in the past but we haven't really tried these yet.)