"Discretion"

"Is the better part of valour"

Or so I've heard. In my case I think it's maybe fear rather than discretion.... It was a tough decision today but I cut my run down to 2 blocks (14.8 kms). I wavered back and forth several times. Right up to the point I got back home for the second time I still considered going around one more time. I had started to feel a little pressure at about 45 minutes but it was nothing you would even call pain...just a nagging little discomfort. I considered which scenario would leave me the most frustrated later, feeling like I hadn't done enough, or feeling like I had hurt myself again? And that in the end made the decision clear. Sure enough I don't really have that nice kind of tired feeling I get after a good workout, but more importantly I know I can workout again tomorrow.....even though it is a little sore right now...

It was also not a great running day. There were too many stretches where I couldn't get any traction, and the wind was a bit nasty as well. I did however feel strong, and the second lap was actually a full minute faster than the first without any effort to make it so.

So since I've gotten a little complacent about the pool I need to commit to swimming 4 km tomorrow, and since I haven't done a lot of anything recently I ask you to hold me to it. I realize that I could of course lie to you tomorrow and you'd never know, but I would, and as such promise a truthful report. By the way, Quintana Roo also makes terrific wetsuits so I hope to save my pennies and check them out one of these days (I accept donations). Of course like all other triathlon specific gear I have to travel to Toronto to find anything.

I wish to dedicate day 106 to my friend Terri at the running store, who always tries to accommodate my biking needs.

"A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it."---Christian Nestell Bovee

"But where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live." ---Sir Thomas Browne

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