"Beer" and "No Hair" is performance enhancing...

I woke up at 5:00 am to catch a plane to go to Ottawa for the day.

When I arrived back in Toronto I was fairly tired and it was starting to snow, again.

I had two workouts scheduled and quite frankly I wasn't looking forward to either of them. But I was determined to "forge" a head.

Dwelling or having negative thoughts doesn't do anyone any good. My philosophy is just to "keep putting one foot in front of the other", don't think, just do.

The moment I got home from the airport, I quickly changed and was out the door for my 45 minute tempo run. I ran an 8:28 per mile pace.

There was wet snow on the streets and the worst part of the run was that my feet got wet early in the run and they became very cold. When I finished, my "big" toe was semi-frozen.

After I stretched and cooled down, the entire family went to "Canyon Creek" for dinner. It was a nice with good conversation, it is not often that we have all four of us together for dinner.

At dinner, I had 3 pints of beer, a nice big steak and some bread pudding for dessert. I felt completely satisfied.

I still had a swim to do and I knew the beers would be a pick me up, but I didn't realize how much they would pick me up until I got to the pool.

This evenings swim workout was 3000 meters of speed work. It was a make up session for yesterday.

I jumped in the pool, feeling no pain and decided to "giver". I felt awesome.

It seemed like I was going through the water faster, that the shaved legs were really making a difference in speed and improved my feel for the water.

I really noticed the speed increase when I did 400 meters kicking with the board, each 100 got faster than the previous 100.

Swimming with shaved legs was a whole new sensation, one of slickness and speed. While I was swimming, I figured that hair must slow you down because you never see a hairy fish.

My lap times were the fastest ever in a 25 meter pool. I was going as fast as 1:45 per 100 meters.

It's amazing how I went from dreading the swim workout before dinner and drinks, to becoming motivated and giving a maximum effort in a matter of an hour.

Forget "Red Bull", hello Coors Light!