3 days

This morning I finished my training with a 30 minute swim and a 1 hour bike ride. In just 3 short days we will see if all this training was effective. I started, unofficially, at the beginning of the year with a dream. Finishing an Ironman seemed like an impossible task but, now that I look at the time I've put in, I think it may be possible. I've got my plan. I keep going over it again and again. I feel like saying something about this whole experience but I'm so anxious, I can' think straight. I've enjoyed pushing myself. In my last "long" session I had a 2hr bike ride followed by a 30 minute run. I chose two routes that I used to do a few years ago when I first started. The bike ride was to Enos lane. As I rode, I remembered how this ride used to make me exhausted. I'd come home and be beat. I laughed to think that I was excited that morning to just have a short easy ride. The run was similar. I ran it faster than I did several years ago, and that was even after a two hour bike ride. That last "long" workout was evidence to me that I am in better shape than I was then, but also that our reality is relative to time, experience and circumstance. I like the anxious feeling I have today. It is the same feeling I had when I did my first sprint triathlon. I had doubts, back then, that I would be able to finish. The reality was that I could finish. I just didn't know that yet. I hope that in 3 days I'll be able to see that my reality is just as I believed.