Counting down the numbers...

I didn't get much sleep last night. To my peril. My mind was racing. John Barclay didn't leave until around 10:30 pm and then I had to blog. John can't go to bed without reading it. Alice calls my blog his bedtime story. When he was over here, he even complained it wasn't up as timely as it needed to be last week. I sure hope he doesn't ask for a refund and cancel his subscription. lol.

Before I knew it, it was midnight and by the time I finally ramped down and fell asleep it was probably 1 am. I only got about 5.5 hours of poor sleep. Not good when your trying to rest and get ready for your A race. I did feel surprisingly good during the day. I swam at lunch time and left work at 3:30 pm to get my ride it. It was an unseasonable warm 19 C and I was looking forward to riding in the nice weather.

After the ride I started to feel more than tired, I started to feel burnt out. Finishing my stretching afterwards was a mental chore. I ate about 7 lbs of the Shepard's pie that Alice made and fell asleep on the couch. When I woke up my throat was sore and I started coughing again. Worse than before. Damn!!! When is this going to go away??? Then, to cap it all off, three days ago I got another cold sore.

Johnny at work noticed my cold sore. I told him it's my 3rd in less than a month and I think it's because I cleaned up my lifestyle and my body is trying to get rid of as many toxins as possible, while it still can. He agreed that he gets cold sores for the same reason. It's an interesting theory. It make being sick seem worthwhile.

Here are some interesting stats I've been putting together...

* Today is day 17 of healthy eating (no chocolate, candy, junk food, or eating anything past 8 pm).

* Today is day 29 of not drinking any alcohol.

* 3 cold sores in less than 30 days.

* Down 4 lbs + in 17 days.

* Sick for the past 10 days.

* 21,264 hits to my blog since November 12, 2007 (my kids say 20,000 are my mother alone).

* 1,749 in last 30 days.

* 565 unique visitors in 30 days.

* 48% of the hits to my site are intentional.

* 1251 twitter followers.

* 1911 twits I'm following (I'm a twit too).

* 1206 workouts in 771 days.

* 15,364.17 miles of training since February 5th, 2007.

* 24,780.91 kilometers of training since February 5th, 2007.

* 1,206,381 calories burnt since February 5th, 2007.

* 8 months averaging over 600 miles per month of training.

* Reid weighs 177.2 lbs.

* I weight 179.8 lbs.

* 2 days till flight to Clearwater.

* 5 days till Clearwater Ironman 70.3.

* 6 days till no training for two weeks.

* 6 days till Reid's birthday.

* 9 people emailed me today and told me they like our new Mantracker Audition Video.

* 12 days till my birthday.

* 12 days till my next beer.

* 12 days till some unhealthy eating.

* 13 days till my next hangover.

* 14 days till I recover from my hangover.

* 21 days till Ironman China training begins

* 43 days till Alice's birthday.

* 46 days till Christmas.

* $1000 - the minimum amount of money I'm going to spend on my new Ironman 70.3 World Championship wardrobe that I'll wear till I die.

* $1 billion short of being a billionaire.

Mod Swim - 40:36 / 2000 meters

Mod Bike - 1:01:12 / 32.85 km / 32.2 kph / 121 avg hr