"Tomorrow"

I actually started out today to tell you what my goal time is for the race, a temptation I have so far managed to resist. I will put it off for at least one more day. I want to make it public so as to pressure myself into working hard for the next 3 months and yet I'm afraid to tell you because I'm not sure I can do it. When in doubt procrastinate.

Today I had a decent swim with my wetsuit. Instead of just swimming I did 3 ssts of 500 metres trying to go a little faster each time. My sets were, 9:09, 8:56, and 8:40 so mission accomplished. Then I thought maybe I could do 250 metres in 4 minutes and I managed that as well. It would have been a challenge to do it in 5 minutes 'au naturel'. I will swim more and more in my wetsuit even if people look at me funny. Today a guy said, "come on, it's not that cold in here". I didn't bother to explain, just smiled and got in the pool.

I had a fun moment this afternoon as well. I went to the track to fool around a little and after doing some 400 repeats was ready to go home. But just for the heck of it I thought it would be fun to see how fast (slow) I could run 100 metres. There was a young lady there maybe 12 or 13 years old training with a coach or a parent and so I was about to forego my test run so as not to embarrass myself. Then I thought what the heck, and aked her if she wanted a race. I had been watching her and didn't think I could keep up but I thought it may be fun for her and for me. So off we went to the starting line and got the go signal from her coach at the other end. She had me for the first 30 metres but then I caught her and was moving slowly past when guess what....she did a Michael Johnson on me! Yup...she quit! I don't know what her coach/parent said to her later but at the time she was definitely getting some grief.

I never did get an accurate time so I'm gonna have to do it again another day. All I know for sure is that this old grampa smoked that little kid...lmao!!

I wish to dedicate day to Bruce Burns who set the Ironman canada course record for men aged 50-54 in a time of 9:36:27....wow!!!

“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone."---Pablo Picasso

“Do not put off till tomorrow what can be put off till day-after-tomorrow just as well."---Mark Twain

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peter