Welcome to TRI-CHOTOMY.



I'm just an averge age grouper blogging about Triathlon Training and this complex puzzle of juggling life, having fun and the Tri(als) and Tri(bulations) of "My Reality Show". With the Miami Ironman 70.3 race now in the books I've set a new goal, competing and completing Ironman Louisville 2011 in August. Twice the distance, twice the pain, twice the fun. As a warm up race and I never would have believed hearing myself say this, I'll be doing Ironman 70.3 Rhode Island in July. Once again I'll be sharing these experiences with my great friends Chris and Justin and look forward to the next several months of training and racing with them.

I'll share my training, race and gear experiences and hope you'll comment and even offer advice from your experiences.

Remember,

"Pain is Temporary, Quitting Lasts Forever".

"Life shouldn't be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, cliff bar in one hand, Gatorade in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO what a ride!"

"You can sleep when you're dead!"




Saturday, July 10, 2010

Oh crap!

Well I've been icing 2-3 times a day since Sunday and it seems to have helped as my groin is feeling much better. I've also been taking anti-inflammatories that have probably helped too. Weird thing though, I've gained 7 pounds in the past 5 days. WTF? I figure it must have something to do with the medication so I check the side effects on the web and what do you know, possible weight gain. It's water retention though and I realize that I haven't been going to the bathroom as often even though I've been drinking just as much water daily. Anyway, I decided to test my groin and do a run of about 10 km. Usually I'd be doing a brick today and a run tomorrow but I've arranged with Justin to do our brick tomorrow instead. So everything is going good on the run, no pain or irritation and I'm hoping that the week off, the icing and anti-inflammatory have done their jobs. Not so. I hit the 5 km point and I feel a slight tightness/irritaion. Now I'm concerned. All kinds of stuff is going through my head, down for a month, all my gains to this point are over, I'll have to start over, will I have enough time to rebuild before Miami. I walk the rest of the way home thinking Oh Crap.
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