A Very Erie Calmness

Week one of the Taper is in the books.  Like I previously stated, I never thought I was worthy of this stage in my past endeavors, and this week has been no exception.  With the times and distances dropping allowing the body to repair and rebuild, I've found myself a little board actually with more time on my hands.  Oddly, this has not freaked me out like I thought it would.

I found out that Ironman officially assigned me a race number.  I am number 2033.  That makes it pretty official if you ask me, and again, it did not cause me to breath in a bag as bad as I anticipated it would.

My long brick workout this past Saturday was half the distance as the previous week's long workout.  I started the bike workout in the dark under a very full moon and that was more creepy to me than the fact that I am less than 13 days away from THE day that I have been planning and working toward.  Again, I watch the countdown tick ever so closer to the time marked on the calendar that is circled in red, and I am rather calm about it.  Those who know me know that this is an odd behavior for me.  I wonder if my team mates on the 2013 TheTriShop.com Triathlon Team have experienced the same thing??

All of this means only one thing; the shock and awe that I should be going through right now will bubble over and out of my ears and nose on November 2 causing great pains of anxiety and freaking-outness.  We'll have to wait and see - because right now I am enjoying the lighter workouts and the free time on my hands!

By the way, this blog reached over 1000 hits this week .... that should freak me out too, but it didn't.

I've been training under this light ....