T Minus 10 Weeks and Counting

Post 31

Weeks of training complete: 22 weeks, 1 day

Time remaining until Ironman: 9 weeks, 6 days

Miles swam: 92.117

Miles biked: 1,451.82

Miles run: 368.38

Goal: $5,000

Total raised: $1,540

We're officially under the 10 week mark. Just 9 weeks and 6 days from now, if all goes according to plan, I will be crossing the finish line of the 2008 Ford Arizona Ironman some time around this time.

Here's some fun things to consider. Since the beginning of training:

• I have swam the distance from midtown Manhattan to downtown Philadelphia

• I have biked the distance from Tempe to St. Louis, Missouri

• I have run the distance from Phoenix to Los Angeles

I took Beckett to Gameworks tonight because he was so good at school. So good, in fact, that the teachers commended him for sharing with other students. That's a first ...

We played skeeball and air hockey and a Harley Davidson motorcycle game.

I've been up since 4:30 a.m. I ran a half-marathon before work, coupled with a 20 mile bike ride. I feel like a machine; a machine that just gets up and runs and swims and bikes and eats and eats and eats and eats and eats.

I eat a lot - just like that Michael Phelps thing on the Olympics everyone was talking about.

For example:

I came home from my run this morning and had the following:

3 scrambled eggs

2 oz. fire roasted salsa

2 pieces of toast

1/2 whole avocado

6 oz. smoked salmon

1 whole banana

16 oz. orange juice

16 oz. coffee

12 oz. seltzer water

Before that: 3 packets of Hammer gel (during run)

For lunch, I had the following:

1/2 whole zuchinni, raw

1/2 tomato

4 oz. raw carrots

5 oz. spaghetti

3 oz. homemade soy-based "meat marinara"

1 can Coca-Cola

1 peanut butter and banana cupcake

For second lunch:

1 tortilla

8 oz. chicken and potato homemade Mexican burrito filling

16 oz. water

For dinner:

6 spears asparagus

12 oz. chicken baked in pecan-mustard glaze

1 baked pita

1 Megan & Jeff's India Pale Ale home brew

For snack:

2 12oz. glasses natural sparkling lemonade

1/3 mint chip ice cream sandwich

And probably cookies after I finish this.

I had a pretty nice weekend, actually, too. Went out to dinner for my buddy Eric's birthday on Friday night. Had lots of sushi and some beer. Went to the ASU football game on Saturday.

I know I'm not very insightful tonight, but my eyes are heavy and I need to pack for tomorrow's workout. Tomorrow, I shouldn't be as tired, which means I might be able to think of something more to say.

Seriously, my brain is mushy mush right now. Must be all those video games.

- Ed