Alyssa's Birthday Dinner...

I felt tired waking up. It was the junk food from last night. I've noticed that if I eat poorly, especially before bed I wake up tired. I assume the body is spending it's time digesting and not resting. Yet my heart rate hit an all time low, I believe it got to 34 bpm, I was only able to catch it on the camera at 35 bpm.

It was a Beautiful day today, sunny and unusually warm. Reid came in the house and had to change, it was too hot for him. Today was supposed to be a long ride for me and the weather couldn't be better. With the back of the knee sore, I'm sure it's a serious strain, I couldn't go.

Today is Kona and it was televised on Universal Sports in it's entirety. It was amazing coverage, it was like, and I think better, than watching the Tour de France. It was the first time I've ever watched a triathlon in a race format in real time. It was fantastic, not to mention the race turned out to be epic. I think the best Ironman of all time, even better than the Ironwar between Mark Allen and Dave Scott.

At one point, partly from being motivated by watching the Ironman and mostly because it was so gorgeous outside, I decided to go for a ride and risk it and I tried out my new Team Canada tri-shorts. My plan was to go slow. Originally I thought that I'd love to get a 4 hour ride in. I made my move and went for it. I rode easy, my heart rate averaged only 110 bpm for the entire ride. I was gentle. Even at such a low heart rate I was surprised at the overall speed being over 29 kph for what I would deem and easy spin.

Even though I wanted to go long, I decided to cut it short and only do a couple hours, I figured it would be best to be responsible. When I got home the knee was not any worse than when I left. Great sign. I tried to job a little in the house, no avail, a couple steps and it was hurting. It was better than yesterday, still bad.

I kept watching Ironman until dinner. We went to Marciano's Italian restaurant in Waterdown, it was Alyssa's choice. They have great food there. I tried to eat healthy, I was so motivated to do so this morning and I over did it a little on the bread. Awesome food choice.

When I got home the race was now on the run, it was so exciting. Craig Alexander being chased down initially then only a mile or two from setting a world record and having to stop for cramping. Then Chrissie coming from behind to take the lead and being chased down by a strong looking Mirinda Cafrae. In the end it was Alexander and Chrissie. Both semi-collapsed at the end. It was so damn exciting.

The rest of the night was f-ing around on twitter. A complete waste of time. Oh, and Alyssa opened her presents and we had Dairy Queen ice cream cake, all my will power went out the window, I must have had about 5 or 6 pieces throughout the night. I have such strong will power at the beginning of the day and during training and then night comes and I fall apart. Surprisingly my body is in great looking shape, I should be 500 lbs and I'm getting lean and mean. Later tonight Reid broke out the Red Twizzlers. Another no willpower moment.

I've come to the official conclusion that I'm going to stop blogging my daily blogging and try to reduce my twittering at the end of this racing season. This year I mean it, haha, maybe I'll just update weekly. It feels like the right thing to do. After seeing the hours I've spent over the last near 5 years doing it, I think it would be time better well spent working on business and my career. I have my mojo back in that department. Something inside of me is saying it's time to move on with another focus, still maintaining my shape and doing Ironmans, just focusing more on other priorities. If I could do for my financial situation what I did for my fitness and triathlon accomplishments in the next 5-years I could be set for life.

Easy Bike - 2:12:59 / 65.03 km / 29.3 kph avg / 110 bpm avg
3959 Calories