Home Sweet Home

Today was our final travel day. We made it home safe and sound.

The muscles in my legs are a little sore from yesterdays workout, and when I say sore, I mean it in a good way.

With all the time flying I spent a lot of time reading "The Triathletes Training Bible". What a great book. As I was reading it, I decided to put a training plan together based on the principles in the book.

I realized as I read it (and it described my training style to a tee) I'm old school in my training approach - Volume, Volume, and more Volume.

Rather than logging in as many training hours as possible, I need to work on purpose and be strategic in my workouts. It's also interesting that the book is very focused on making sure you have enough recovery days to avoid injury and burnout. Rest! Something I'm not used to doing and not feel guilty about.

The bottom line is that I've got the motivation to train, but no plan. Now I'm going to put together a plan based on my goals.

It asked in the book if I had a quantifiable goal? Which most triathletes don't but should and is critical to building a plan.

After thinking about it, I decided my goal would be to beat my 1987 best Ironman time of 12:22:01 when I was 21 years old.

There I said it.

I NOW HAVE AN OFFICIAL GOAL!!! GULP!