Another Year.....so what?

So another year has come and gone, and 2012 should bring some pretty sweet happenings for Jess and I.  Mostly because we're going to be going to Penticton at the end of August for a pretty big race and I'm not going to lie, I'm a hundred percent scared. But lets do a look back at the year past first and what happened.

At the beginning of the year, the plan was for Jess to run the Calgary Marathon with me.  Unfortunately injuries hit and that plan got derailed for her, but no matter I would push through.  It would turn out to be a faster time than last year (by 30 minutes) but I'm always going to wonder what could've been on that day had I not been feeling crappy and sick.  You're always left with what ifs, could haves if a performance doesn't have everything come together like it should.  I'm happy that I shaved a certain amount of time off and I felt fresh, so I would go and target San Francisco 8 weeks later.

During the summer I managed to put in some consistent training and you really do feel the difference when you put in solid consistent training.  I think I'll try to do consistent two a days when I get back to strict running, and none of this swimming biking running malarky.  But then I went down to San Francisco to run the marathon there.  I have to say there are very few things that I can think of that I dislike more than having to drag my ass out of bed to go race........at 4 in the morning. It was still pitch black when I walked out the door, and probably for the first hour of the race, cool thing was that I got to run across the entire golden gate bridge on the road (although I probably got a little bit too excited here and this is where the marathon goals started falling apart.  I had a lot of fun on possibly the worlds hilliest course, but honestly at the end I was just done I had nothing left in me.

After that I put in some decent time on the bike, I wish I could've done more but you have to juggle everything.  Hopefully I'll be able to build on what I did last year, and put forward a good solid 4 months before I head off to team camp which should be kinda interesting.

In the last four months of the year, I picked up floundering, and honestly I was just hoping to build up as much of a base as possible so that when I start swimming again I won't have to go through that process again.  I'll be quite honest I'm poor at swimming (at best) so that's going to be the biggest obstacle between me and a successful finish at ironman.

So that's pretty much all I did athletically this year, I'll post one later on this week about goals/targets for this year.  Thanks for reading again.

~Cheers