Race week....let the anticipation begin....

Less than 7 days until Half Ironman Galveston. For everyone keeping score, this will be my third Half Ironman distance triathlon. This is also the course I did my very first Half Ironman on as well which makes this race even more exciting for me.

But before we get to race day, I have to make it through race week. The crazy thing about race week is, at least for me, I love it and hate it all at the same time.

I love race week because I have put all the work in, now its time to relax a little bit and make sure I make it to the starting line fully healthy and fully recovered from the months of hard workouts. I love it because there is nothing quite like the feeling of going through pre-race registration, sizing up your competition, and checking your bike and getting your gear ready the day before.

I hate race week because of the anticipation. Because its race week, you don't go through the normal workouts that take up so much of your time. You don't put forth the intensity in your workouts because you don't want to wear yourself out. So you go from putting in miles and miles in the pool, and on the bike, and running, to barely doing anything at all. It can be quite the shock but also very necessary.

So here we are....race week. The last of the big workouts are done. My bike goes into the shop tomorrow morning for its final tune up. I will do a couple light swims Wednesday and Friday morning and a light jog on Thursday to stay loose, and then try to stay off my legs as much as I can on Saturday.

Sunday morning as the sun comes up over the palm trees the anticipation will be over and it will finally be race day.

Two Half Ironmans in a nine week span...

Its funny the reaction I get from people when they find out I do triathlons. Its even funnier to see their reaction when they find out I do long distance triathlons. It can range from "you're crazy....to you're stupid.....to that's awesome". But whatever the case its still entertaining to see how they react.

Last year I was very busy racing, doing pretty much a different race each month. Now for the most part these races were relatively short in distance. My two majors races of last year were at the beginning and the end of the season with the middle filled with intermediate and short distance races. Well this year the ante is getting upped a little bit, thanks to an agreement I have with my buddy Jarod!

I have the Half Ironman in Galveston on April 1st. To add to that I just officially registered for the Half Ironman in Kansas on June 10th. Two 70.3 miles races nine weeks apart. I am also officially registered for an Olympic distance triathlon in between those two during the last weekend in April. Crazy I know.

But you know, sometimes you have to be a little bit crazy. You have to push yourself to the limits. You even have to push yourself past them. You only live once so why not make the most of it? Like I always say, "I would rather look back and say I wish I hadn't done something, instead of saying I wish I had".