Spring ... bahh humbug

OK, it's April. WTF is up with the weather. We were teased with that warm weather for a week and then it dropped miserable and cold again. I think we need to find Punxsutawney Phil and General Beauregard Lee, and tell them they can take their early spring and go hide back in their holes for the rest of the summer. Probably feeling a little curmudgeonly because I am still feeling sick, a flu bug or something that has been going around. So with that and work have not been able to do as much training as I wanted to this week. Although I did manage to join the GTS (group training session) this Saturday for the run session which was the actual tri course that we will do on race day. We started off in Riverside park and then ran about a mile to Central Park. From there we do a five mile loop up the west side, across the northern hills and down the east side to the 72nd transverse. The finish line is in the same area where the disco skaters hang out. Although they will be there later in the day, so we won't be having to run though a skating circle. Although that could make for an interesting finish line.



This past Wednesday, I had to work late so I decided to go to the intermediate swim session at 8:30 instead of the basic one at 7pm that I normally attend. My first though after I jumped into the water and look across the poll was "Wait a minute, the middle is gone. The pool is the full 50 meter length, oh crap!" So, not much drilling that night either just swimming laps and then finishing up the night with the dreaded double snake swim. Basically the whole group starts off together in the first lane and then proceeds to swim up and down the lanes for the entire width of the pool and once you get to the end, you come back. Right now the only consolation I can give myself is that it's still 3 months before the race. So lots of time to get better at swimming. Looking forward to warmer weather this week and better health. Time to grab some more Nyquil and OJ.