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Kicking off 2017

A few things have happened in the past 8 days that have inspired me to post before race season begins, after all it's not all about racing.

I have been riding the diabetes struggle bus since reducing my medicine after Monumental half in early November, with pretty scary fasting blood sugar numbers.  But my doc doesn't want to test or talk about it until February, so I am just in a holding pattern where I feel relatively powerless.  I've also had the head cold from hell since mid/late-December and it's super annoying.  The last 10 pounds I lost found their way back, so I need to lose them again (story of my life)...but some good things are underway too.

I decided to have David come and take pictures of my first weight training session of the year.  I've been working with Shannon Strazynski (fellow PBT teammate and personal trainer at Fitness Garage in Zionsville) since June.











Also, fellow PBT teammate Jasmine Tracey featured me on her blog - Run, Jasmine, Run! - for the January "people who inspire" which was so special.  Her video intro and my interview are available on her blog: http://runjasminerun.blogspot.com/2017/01/januarys-people-who-inspire-interview.html. (She's way better at the blogging thing than I am)

My first training block of the year has been:
Monday - swim
Tuesday - quality run
Wednesday - (triple play Wednesday) TRX at the Loft, swim, and ride
Thursday - little brick (or a ride) and yoga (until that didn't work out)
Friday - swim
Saturday - long run (and sometimes yoga when things changed)
Sunday - strength and long ride

Today I'll wrap up the first block and tomorrow starts the next three week block.  I'll also hit the road for work again this week (with a trip to visit my parents in between meetings) so the bike trainer will have a road show again.

The weather has been pretty inconsistent...and yesterday's long run was 10 miles at zero degrees.  I didn't get a picture, but it was cold.  And we enjoyed the steamed bagels and coffee afterward...we earned it.


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