Today went swimmingly...

I swam a total of 2 miles (3200 yards) today in the pool and 2000 of those yards were just straight swimming.  As I've mentioned before, I'm the black sheep of the family because I got out of the swimming game early (pre-highschool) and decided to pursue sports on land instead.  Since I stopped swimming competitively at such at early age, I'm 99% sure that was the most yardage I've ever swum straight. Not too shabby!  This workout also had the added benefit of being in an outdoor pool, so I managed to get a sweeeeeet one piece tan as well.  

I'm the crazy sheep in more ways than one...

Today was also a fabulous day because I am now fairly certain that I can do both the half iron on September 8th and the actual IronMan on November 17th with my current school schedule for this fall/winter.  I've been angsting about this since I found out that I CAN'T do Age Group National Champs over the summer.  I was super bummed about that, but now that I know I can do the other two races, I'm not as peeved...although I've also had a week to get over being a whiny poop face about it haha.  I'm hoping to do at least one regular triathlon before the season is over so I can attempt to qualify for the Age Group National Championship race again (and hope that I can do it in 2014), but we shall see!

And lastly, I only have one more week as a first year medical student! First year went by so fast and the speed of these past few months can be attributed to my training.  It definitely kept me sane and has helped my focus while studying.  So, while training can sometimes be boring, or painful, or tiring/exhausting, or scary (at least when I'm biking), etc. and many people tell me I'm crazy for not only doing an IronMan, but also doing it during medical school, I'm really glad I have committed to doing IMAZ.   144 days and counting!!