Ready or Not?

It is time for me to be sleeping and I am wound up like a top! 

I have written about my visions of grandeur only to be humbled at the training process over the last few months.  I have failed to write about vivid nightmares that had me wake up in a panic in the middle of the night, sure that I had snapped my leg off at my knee.  I have also pushed myself to exercise for durations of up to 2 ½ hours…something that hasn’t occurred for damn close to 20 years!  (I now understand the reality of pushing too hard and suffering the consequences as I have gotten older…a true reality I am facing tomorrow as my right hip and thigh are still very sore from last weekend.  Perhaps I peaked a week to early).  The one thing that has happened for certain is I know that I am back!  I am looking forward to really mixing up the workouts again for the next three weeks then juggling coaching while getting ready to participate in the Parkway Half Marathon in May.  I’m looking for a race then again in August.  September I will be swimming in the Alcatraz Invitational, and then I think I will do the Cow Town Half in October; with the final race, the CIM on December 5.  So in a way, tomorrow will be the end of training for the Shamrockn’ Half…but will be the beginning of a new year of chasing my dreams from days past –the ones I never have forgotten, just put on hold for a while…Yeah, I AM READY!