Whoa...Slow down.

I have been slacking on the blog here. Honestly, there isn't much to say. The last two weeks have been rather boring. I'm getting killed here at work, our weekends are swamped, and now it's dark at 530. Geez, I can hardly wait to start the basement treadmill work.

The good news is that this foot rehab stuff seems to be working. I am running regularly and getting ready for the BT50K which Natalie and I are signed up for. I figured the next 2 months is going to be a lot of long slow trail runs. I'm not really in the mood to run fast anyway.

The swimming is progressing. Unfortunately it only took 3 weeks for the should pain to return. It's been especially bad this week. I can take a little more but, at some point I may have to think about what I'm doing. Shoulder exercises and massage 4 times a week is holding everything together. That's what is with my title. What I started to do is add too much intensity. My problem is that I'll do a 500-1000 yd pace and get an idea where Iam at. Then the following week I want to destroy that time. I think I got lucky one morning when I popped off a 5:35 500, so if I do the Christian math, my next swim should be around 5:15 then close to 5 in 6 weeks. See the flaw here? So now i am slowing it down. I changed my plans to enter some fall masters swim meets just for 1500's and will now concentrate on long and strong.

The best part about all this is Natalie's being in massage school. I am a very happy practice dummy. More dummy than anything.

So what's next? More running, more swimming, more Christmas ale. Long runs, long swims, 3 day benders...