New Layout

So, I really liked the old layout, but it just was not enough for me...It is a little crazy, but hey, I am a martian so what do you expect? So I changed it a little bit. Did another 10 mile run this evening. I am really starting to enjoy longer runs. My body is def. getting used to these longer runs. My legs are feeling a lot stronger and my knees did not hurt as much on the one tonight. I have not really had much to write about lately so I have been slacking. Once I get home there will be a lot more. I am really excited about going to Kona for the HIM Hawaii. It is going to be costly and I need to figure out how I am going to get my bike there and if I am going alone or with anyone. It would be nice to have some one to split the cost of hotels and what not.

A...... Run

OK so it seems that every deployment there is something that happens that I feel I need to write about. This event happened today, night, whatever it is now. Whether it is a natural occurrence, sunset, sun rise, or hearing some of the local nationals sing their songs as I look out into the snow covered mountain tops. It might even be sitting on top of a building watching enemy mortar rounds miss terribly. It is those out of body experiences. There is always something.
This deployment has not been very exciting. It has been filled with a lot of gym time and endless hours of day dreaming. Well tonight I decided that I was not going to do my run on a tread mill and took it to the dirt. I just ran ten miles through an A...... desert alone, watching the sun rise. Talk about out of body experience. A ten mile run alone is enough to make you feel a little funny at the end, but after what I experienced today, I think I love running. The run started out on the inside of two wires for the first five miles and then took a turn out of one. This left the second half of the run with only one fence and a lot closer to nature. After about the first quarter mile outside the fence I noticed a little fox running along behind me. While a little startled at first, it was 0445 and still almost pitch black, I watch the little fellow and soon felt no threat so I continued to run. Well that little fucker decided to run that entire five miles with me. At first he was behind, and then he would come along next to me, take the lead and fall back, over and over. Keeping his distance of course, but he was getting close enough to tell that he was definitely a little fox. At the seven and a half mile the sun started to rise and of course I was lucky enough to be running towards it. Some very nice pastel colors, blue, pink, orange, you know it’s a sun rise.
The last mile was really hurting my knees so I stopped paying attention to the little fox, but he left me somewhere around that time. As I sit here I can already tell my legs are not going to be happy with me, but who can honestly say that they ran ten miles through an A...... desert…Much less with a fox with them.
Well I was pretty excited about this, but I need to get some sleep now…I have a long couple days ahead of me. At least that run is out of the way.

2009 A year for success.

Well since it is now 2009 I have decided this is going to be my biggest year for success. No matter what I do this year I am going to set myself up for nothing, but success. That way there is no room for failure, right? I guess we will see. I have decided to come up with a training schedule for back home and this is what I am thinking: Well the chart I made did not copy over so the next paragraph shows my plans.

With this kind of training schedule I do not think it is possible to work a full time job and get in much better shape. I wish I was done with my training and could devote all of my time to tri training, but I cannot so cross training is a must. This is 5 hours a week swimming, 4 hours per week running, probably more like 5 because Command PT always has about 4 miles of running, 10 hours a week biking, and 3.5 hours cross training. This totals 24.5 hours per week training. If I can stick to this training plan I will be even more of a machine than I have already made myself, which is my goal.

Aside from doing this I am really going to start a true athlete’s diet and be very conscious of what I eat. No more junk food, no more fast food, and a lot more cooking at the home place. I am going to be keeping a log of all my workouts and meals to keep myself on the straight and narrow. This has to be my life if I want to make it through my training.

To a lot of people this training would be way out of the picture, but for me it is not. I already train about 15-16 hours per week now and there is no reason I cannot up the pace.

I do not do triathlons to be a professional; I do them because I enjoy them. The way I see it though, if I enjoy doing them, why not do my best? Also, for the training I am going to get into, my body needs to be prepared to do the miles and take the abuse. You can never be fully ready for it, but I am going to be as close as possible leaving only the mental blocks as challenges.

Explanations

So this blog is going to be about my life and my everyday activities I like to call journeys. There is a lot going on in my life right now so my head is a little scattered. I really do not know how to get this started, but I am going to do my best.

For those of you who need a refresher on me:

As of right now, my goals this far in life are pretty straight forward. Complete the training I want to complete. (Don’t want to say what to save myself once I get there.) Complete an Ironman distance triathlon. Lastly, just be healthy and happy. With that said, I am ready to do whatever it takes to get there. I currently have a beautiful girlfriend, Ana. I am stationed out of Hawaii, which I would absolutely love if I only had my loved ones. For the past couple years I have been training my butt off to prepare myself for what I plan to go through. Last year I decided on a whim to do a triathlon. With no real preparation I entered and placed second in my age group. I think twentieth overall. I was hooked right away. Ever since I have been training for tris while at home. The second race I entered again I got second in my AG, I believe I was thirteenth overall this time. I have not been following a strict training regiment, but when I get home I think I am going to change that up in order to maximize my results, why not right? I think the reason I fell in love with triathlons is because I was already doing similar training in order to prepare myself for my future. Whatever it is, I am hooked.

As most of you know I have skateboarded for about twelve years of my life and until recently it was a huge part of me. After numerous injuries and time on the plywood I have decided to let the board go for a while. It is too much of a risk to put this much time in effort into something only to throw it away. Not saying I am done skating forever, but for the next little while I have to chill out on the skateboard. I know Tommy, sorry. HAHA.

Well I guess that is a good enough update for now. It is time to get to the gym for daily couple hours of workout. I cannot wait to get home and get back into the swing of things, but for now, gym and running will have to do.

New blog that I am actually going to update!

The tittle of the blog pretty much says it all. From time to time I have made blogs and only posted one or two things, but this one is going to be current... As current as possible. Since I am where I am I have a lot of time to think about things that are going on in my life so these post are going to be pretty legnthy, at least for the next couple weeks.