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Heading into the final stretch

8/18/14 - 8/24/14

Swim - 2
Bike - 2
Run - 2
Strength Training - 0
Weight loss (weekly / year) - 0 lbs / 7 lbs
Mileage (weekly / 2014)
  Swim - 4,900  yds / 86,350 yds  
  Bike - 84.5 miles / 1225.28 miles
  Run - 12.44 miles / 346.11 miles

 This was the first week of the final 4 weeks of build before my race.  It is hard for me to believe that 5 weeks from today everything that I have worked for will be over.  Post race life will be so different and I have been thinking a lot about how I will spend my time.  I still have many goals to achieve but I'm looking forward to planning exercise activities and not training activities.  

 Today we took a drive out to Kerrville to check out the race course and I'm surprised at how much of the race is going to be in town.  The lake looks clean but big but very calm. The roads for the bike are ok, a fair amount of chip seal, which is very common here in Texas, but the hills don't look too bad.  I think if I continue to get out to Boerne the next few weeks that I will be in good shape for the bike leg. The run looks like it will mostly be in town, which will be nice to have spectators cheering you on and hopefully they will give me the extra push to keep running.  Of course this continues to be the part that I'm most worried about.  I want to run as much of the 13 miles that I can but I'm still struggling with how my legs feel after getting off the bike. 

 I'm also realizing just how long of a day it's really going to be, I'm estimating about 8 hours so I'll be pulling up the rear of the pack but my #1 goal has always been and will always be to finish the race.  

 I know the next 5 weeks I will be spending too much time thinking about things and stressing myself out but that is me.....typing that right now makes me sick to my stomach :>)

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