A New Year A New Season

It's January 14th and classes are under way at UT Tyler. Also underway is a new season. I'm not really sure what season it is for me- triathlon, track, cycling, cross country or all of the above but it's a new season regardless. My last season ended with the regional cross country meet in North Carolina. I crutched up to the starting line, ran a terrible race, picked up the crutches and moved on. Since regionals its been a slow rehab process to get my hip back where I can run again. Christmas break messed things up pretty good. Not so much because of lack of training and rehab but because of all the travel that did not do good things for hip. Lots of sitting really tightens up my hip flexor bad as well as my piriformis and glute medius. (yes those are real muscles) I did keep up with my strength program in hotel gyms and by paying one day fees but I didn't see much improvement in the two weeks I was gone over Christmas.

New Years Eve I landed in Dallas, Tx and was back in Tyler that night. What an exciting New Years it was for me. I spent about 8 hours helping a friend move and missed midnight by about 5 minutes because I was carrying a couch downstairs. Is this what happens as you start to get older? Oh no. January 1st I moved from my apartment to a duplex across the street (With said friend I'd helped move the night before.) The duplex is great mainly because we have a garage! Right now there are no cars in it but there are 6 bikes, 3 trainers and a bike repair stand. Perfect if you ask me.

Its been nice to get back in a routine and train regularly again. I did about 25 hours in 6 days last week with only 50minutes of running so that translates to some solid time on the bike and in the pool and gym. I'm running about 10 times a week but they are all super short runs. Last week was 5 minutes at a time, this week we bumped it up to 7. Slowly but surely. Even though I'm still a long way off I have confidence that I'll be able to still race well and have a good season this year. (Whatever season that may be)

I pr'd my 200:800 swim test last Saturday by A LOT. The times still aren't very impressive but coming off the week of training I'd had and only a week back in the pool I was super excited. If I can keep getting faster in the water it could mean good things for 2010...

Until next time.