February fizzled out...

Wednesday I woke up late again, so I had to do an abridged version of my bike workout. It still kicked my butt though: 12 min w/u, 7 min hard, 5 min easy, 7 min hard, 6 min c/d.

Thursday and Friday I ended up taking off. I had no less than six significant events happen among family and friends over the past week and a half and I think the emotional exhaustion finally took a physical toll - I just needed to sleep.

Saturday I ran for an hour in some pretty humid weather. I realized as running that most of my running lately has been less than 5 miles, so increasing to an hour was harder than I expected it to be and I was a little sore on Sunday.

Overall, February was a tough month. I felt like things kept coming up to derail my training. My goal for March is to end the month as close to on plan as possible, which maybe doesn't sound that ambitious but with a trip to DC scheduled in the middle of the month that will throw off swimming and biking, I'll be happy to be close at the end of March. I'm also hoping to start dropping some weight in March -- can you believe I haven't lost a single pound in the last two months?! And one last hope is that it stops raining so much here! In a week, I'll start the season with the Stanford Treeathlon and then begin 19 weeks of training for the Half Ironman.