Princess is happy to report that she is finally recovered enough from her injury to run again.  She did 3.22 miles on Sunday at a spectacular 14 min/mile pace.  The squirrels and chipmunks were scampering to keep up.

Just in time to compete in the Pat Griskus Olympic triathlon on June 18.  Princess suspects the run will not be her finest hour.  To make matters worse, last year's 55-59 age group women turned in some amazing times.  Faster than the women in the younger age group. Those are some very scary women. 

     It has been a little bit since I have blogged on here, so I thought I would talk about my training.  So far I have been training for about 6 months solid and I have been struggling with my motivation level.  I have not gotten faster or feel like things are getting easier.  Sure the other day I did a nearly 8 mile run, but there was nothing impressive about it.  A nearly 9 min/mi pace is nothing to cheer about.  I have been using the same training plan structure since I did my first sprint triathlon in 2009.  I h

Beautiful day for a race!  The weather was nice and cool in the morning, but it definitely started to warm up by the start of the race.  Decent breeze slightly out of the north and off the water, so that kept things comfortable for the whole race.  I wanted to go out controlled today, so that meant being above target pace for the first couple of miles.  I hate doing this, because I feel like I am playing catch-up the whole day, but it's definitely the smarter way to run.  My goal time of 1:18:00 meant 5:56's was the target pace.  However, two years ago m