Tri, tri again.

After eating about half of the pan of brownies from yesterday, I felt the need to get myself to the gym. I started back at the Y along with most of Lansing after the first of the year, so getting myself to go despite the crowds is a bit of a battle. However, with Trish, Caleb and I talking about the Warrior Dash yesterday, Dana and I talking about getting back to the gym a few times a week after work, and with the reminder about the Hawk Island Tri registration I got, the gym is a necessity. I got it. Gym good. I need to work out if I don't want to embarass myself. I sat down last week and wrote down my gym dates/times on my big desk calendar at work- I found the time last week to go my 3 scheduled days (yay!), so it's time to do it again. If I can make it to the gym 3x last week with the crazy ass schedule I had, I can totally do it again this week.

I don't even know what it takes to *do* a tri- besides a lot of willpower and a crazy streak. I found a fairly helpful website, trinewbies.com, which has free training schedules to get me moving. They require 10 weeks worth of training. I'm thinking of starting that, then when the 10 weeks is up (since it won't be tri time yet), start up the Playmakers tri class. However, I've tried these 10 week programs on my own before, and seem to fall off of the program by week 3; someone isn't standing over me, making sure I swim the laps, checking my pace on the treadmill, kicking me off the comfortable, recliner-like exercise bikes.

But, is now too early to be focusing *this* much on the tri events? Do I *really* need to deal with bricks now, or can that wait? I don't want to collapse and do too much when training this early on, because I know it will kill my motivation. However, I also know that I need to do more than just run and use free weights right now.

I figure if I can do the tri (which is in June), then I can do the Warrior Dash without batting an eyelash. Hence the tri focus. But don't worry, I'll be perfecting my jump so I can leap over the flaming pile of.... coals?

Trish brought up an interesting point about the Warrior Dash- what costume am I going to dress up in (that isn't a warrior- those hats look annoying!)? Maybe if I can get enough people to go with me in July, there can be a team-wide dress code...!