The Road Back

Hey folks,

It begins.


What you may ask?

My road back to life and triathlon. Been through a hell of ride in my personal life and i think i am finally coming to terms with the fact that i am single again and i live alone. No its not a vacation from my old life....this is my new life. I guess the gift is that it really is MY life. I can do with my life as i wish....this is daunting sometimes because i find myself falling back into old patterns and i forget that i can change my world whenever i want and i am not stuck. You see...i feel stuck sometimes and it is tough to get out of. I think its remnants of how I used to think. So I am working on making changes to make my world better. One of the things i am doing is getting more organized. Stuff and life organization. Each night i set aside some time to organize a few things. Organizing and decorating my apartment and making it a home is first on the list. Organizing my financial situation. Organizing my life:) Part of this change will be figuring out my training schedule and while i am on the subject of training...setting up a road map for next triathlon season.


So hereeee we go:

du/run schedule for the remainder of this year:



10/17/2008 Run 5K Republic Airport Not So Midnight 5k
10/19/2008 Carl Hart Duathlon: Sunday
11/9/2008 Duathlon Sprint Schiff Scout Mountain Bike Duathlon(maybe)
11/30/2008 Duathlon Sprint Turkey Du - Duathlon



no 2009 dates yet but tentatively:

april: mini might man sprint
july: mossman sprint
september: mighty hamptons tri (oly)

Peace love and sooooooullll

Bobito

Tough decisions

hey everyone.....

It's been a rough couple of weeks. Been sick (and still have a bad cough) the last 2 weeks. No training at all. No pool work for at least the last 3 or 4 weeks since the pool meltdown.

I have decided to not do the tri I have scheduled for this weekend.

I have gone back and forth over this decision a million times this week. I just don't feel ready nor do i feel healthy enough. I need to take care of myself. I have not been taking very good care of myself the last few weeks. I've been burning the candle at both ends and I think I'm paying the price. So its time to regroup. I need to get back to working on me.

Once I am 100% healthy, I am gonna start working on swimming. I need to straighten out the issue that I am having with motion sickness. That is a big issue for me. At the same time, I need to get back to cooking at home. I've been eating out waaaaayyyy too much. Its just not the same. I need to get a set workout schedule. I've basically been squeezing it in wherever the last few weeks and that is just not good enough.

So there it is folks....think this re-vamp has been coming for a long time.

Wow and I just found out(2 minutes ago) i may be going to Colorado for a few weeks...If that is the case, I am shipping my bike to TEA's house(lol).....

B

Life and how it gets in the way(sickness and other things)

Hellooooo folks.

Last Saturday, I woke up. Had a frog in my throat. Went for a 35 mile bike ride. It was epic. My legs felt strong...really strong.....was torturing one of my friends and felt so good i could have gone harder.....Since having my swimming issues, i've gone at cycling with an attitude. Like i have a bone to pick with the sport gods....trying to torture the bike and the bike gods until they submit. Of course we both know that the only person being beat up is me.....I feel a certain amount of shame and lameness about this swim issue. I dont like giving up on something, anything ever.....and yes i have not done anything related to swimming for 2 weeks now....cant really explain other than i felt like a failure(and some fear) in the pool...The sudden sickness scares me especially in open water..and also it makes me not want to do it cause well it sucks..this is supposed to be fun......sooooo(getting over it) i went out and bought waterproof ear pluggies....this weekend i am gonna get the seal googles and try that too....I will not give up without a fight...

Getting back to my story: Went biking saturday with a frog in the throat. By Sat night, I was very ill....bad sore throat.....feelling ultra crappy....This ILLNESS(aka the black funk) took me until today to feel better. I am still a little congested and coughing but I feel much better. Man it sucked. But maybe it was God's way of telling me to slow the f@ck down and regroup. So i am glad i got sick. I realized that I was running from this swim issue and hiding behind it. I think I fear open water swims and this has been a easy out. Well folks, I am not going down easy. I love this sport and I will not go out like that. So I am gonna try different goggles (seal style), ear plugs, nose plugs, one of those magnetic thingies, maybe even drugs(dramamine).

So this last week i have gone through a sort of mental meltdown. Sitting home for long periods of time tends to make me dig inside and figure out whats going on upstairs...and its time to figure out what the "next 10 years" plan is for my career. I have not been very excited or satisfied with my current one and i am thinking about trading it in for a new one. I needed to sort out my financial situation....once i get that sorted out, i can do whatever i want for work......and i am trying to get some sort of a social life......i am not even sure where to begin....starting over like i have in the last few months....you begin to feel a little like a college kid who just got his first place....I am still sorting out the things at home cause its the one place that i avoided being for so long. I am not sure where i am going but i know its time to work on this old apartment and make it Bob's NEW home. Its time to put the recent married past to bed and start carving out the new me. A good friend says everytime you get sick, you shed off some of your old self. I think its true....i am shedding the old me and carving out a new me:)

So I have a message for someone in blogland(you know who you are) that i care about very very much:

ALL BAD MOMENTS PASS! I KNOW THE PAIN AND IT DOES PASS. (call me, please)


I AM SENDING A BIG HUUUUGUEEEE HUG OUT TO THEM!!!!

Peace, love, and souuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuul

Bob

swimming problems

hey folkies....

I am considering postponing the tri at the end of august until I get some kind of resolution on the "when I swim too long I puke" issue. I know this is a form of motion sickness but i can only go for 25-30 minutes and then I wanna barf.

YES B-A-R-F

And it feels really bad....head gets cloudy and stomach hurts ....I just want to lay down...

THIS SUCKS



THIS SUCKS ASS

I am frustrated cause I am the best shape of my tri-career and my swimming was coming along.

ANYONE...ANYONE who has any ideas to remedy this issue, please let me know.

B

Motivation or lack thereof :)

Hey peeps:)

Since my 3.5 mile run on Tuesday, I have been suffering from a major lack of motivation. I really don't know what is up. WTF??!!! Alarm goes off at 5:30 and I fall back to sleep or just lay in my comfy a/c cranking 40 below zero bedroom under the covers...LOL....

We'll just call it a small hiatus.

Oh this little issue will be over soon.....REALLY SOON!

Got a little hike on Saturday(New Paltz) and a bike trip on Sunday(can you say HILLS).....


Have a great weekend.

B

Corporate Challenge 3.5

So I did the Corporate Challenge at beautiful Jones Beach yesterday. My time: 49:49 for 3.5 miles(not the usual 3.1) . I was kicking ass up (13:00 /14:00) for my 1st 2 miles and then this guy drops in front of me. So I stopped to see if he was ok. He definitely was not doing well. Looked like he was seizing. There were many people around and some were screaming out things like "start cpr" but folks...in case you didn't know this....do not do cpr if you can find a pulse......its bad....So they kept him as comfortable as possible until the medics came. I then continued my run. It was very hot and humid and not enough breeze for 7000 people. So the race was fun but i am a little disappointed cause i was trying to finish under 40 minutes(for 3.1 not 3.5). Oh well. The guy dropping was definitely a wake up call to my priorities. This is just fun and thats it. Not life of death. And for that guy it very well could be. Hope he is ok. I am praying for him.

Some notes of note:)

Kept my HR in the 155-165 range and felt really good. In fact, just before the incident, my HR started to drop and i was running harder....I think this is a good sign.

B

Swimming and biking

Ok folks. I took a week off. My nephews were in town(and they are the coolest {5 and 7}). I spent time with them.

Anyway back to training:

i swam last night. I am working on bilateral breathing. it sucks. I try to breathe on my left and it feels like i am choking. My form is crap. And i am constantly sucking water. To make it worse, it seems like i keep getting motion sickness. not sure why but it really sucks cause now i stop swimming not because i am tired but becuase i am gonna barf. MAN DOES IT SUCK. I left the pool pretty down last night cause if i cant figure out a solution, i am not gonna be able to go long distances swimming. If anyone has a solution, please let me know...I will try just about anything.

Biked about 30 miles today with some hills. It was great. Lower humidity and noone even tried to hit me with their car....I can hear ice-cube singing ,"today was a good day".....loved it. I really love biking and i think i am gonna try to bike a century by the end of the summer. End off the summer by biking out to montauk. I think it would rock.

Anyone in the Long Island area who wants to join me....just drop me a line. I am thinking the week after labor day....

Tomorrow I would like to run at Long Beach.

By the way, I love training alone but i am really wanting to be challenged. I think I am gonna seek out some riding/running mates....need to challenge myself.


Peace, Love, and SOOOOOOUUUUUUL

I'm out beotches

Bob