The incredible shrinking boy...

Reid's been faithfully attending his swim club for the past month and it shows. He's dropping weight and everyone is noticing. Even his friends at school are commenting. Alice has even had to buy him smaller summer shorts.

Although he's down only about 3 lbs to 186 lbs, he's down from 40% body fat to 24%. For the first time, his arms feel solid when he flexes his muscle.

The best part is he loves swim club. Near the end of June, he has his first Time Trial. I think it's some sort of semi-competition, we had to pay extra for it anyway. He's doing 50 free and 100 free.

Swim wise everything is going well, except his coach called me the other day after he found Reid's swim video's on my You Tube Channel. I guess that's a no no and I took them down. The last thing I want to do is screw anything up for Reid.

Although, it did give me an opportunity to ask the coach if he could give Reid another day of swim training during the week. Reid's enjoying it so much, I'm sure he'd like the extra day and more importantly, I want to turn up the heat and make it harder on him. Heck, if I had my way, Reid would be swimming twice daily.

I didn't feel well today. This past week has been a bit of a "beer-fest" and after yesterdays long beer run, I was officially spent. Even though I was "hurting", it was another sunny and warm day and it by 10 am I was on my bike for a tempo ride.

As strange as this sounds, after a night of debauchery, I tend to have strong rides and today was no different, it was one of my fastest in a long time. I was a little shaky and my hearing was amplified. When a car would drive by, the noise would startle me and that's even with music playing in my ears.

A couple hours after I got home, I started feeling worse. I just wanted to sleep, but couldn't, I had to drive Reid to swim club. I also decided to do a run while Reid swam. Halfway through the run, I saw a hot dog cart and the smokey smell stopped me in my tracks. A nice big sausage was calling my name and I always train with money tucked in my iPhone case.

It hit the spot. I was having some hunger pains and my body was craving that little bit of grease. I didn't even bother washing it down with the Powerade they were selling, I went for the Fruitopia. If I never have to eat another Powerbar or drink Gatorade or Powerade ever again, I'd die a happy man.

During my long ride earlier this week, I made "peanut butter and jelly bagels". They worked great at about 500 calories each. I'm now doing all sorts of energy experimenting. As much as possible I'm trying to eat regular food while training and racing. Actually, come to think of it, hot dogs would fit well in the back of my jersey.

It was another warm day and I think I'm finally starting to get acclimatized. The heat has really slowed me down on my runs this week. Once we start getting summer heat, I like to take the family to Dairy Queen on Sunday nights for ice cream. We went tonight after dinner and I don't know what it is about ice cream, but after I ate it, I felt 100% healthy again.

This week I'm going to have to juggle the training a bit, I think I'll be in North Carolina on Thursday to start the integration process with the large account I just landed. I'm not too worried, I've got to say I feel pretty good training wise, especially after doing IMSG only 30 days ago. Even with 15 days of rest days during May, I'm still going to finish the month with over 1100 km's of training.

I don't want to know the beer count. It's probably a PB.

Tempo Bike - 1:32:10 / 50.03 km / 32.6 kph / 141 avg hr

Tempo Run - 56:29 / 11.06 km / 5:05 / 141 avg hr