Half Triathlon or Bust

So I decided to bite the bullet and hire a personal trainer to get me through my next goal in life: Half Triathlon. This consists of:

Swim: 1.2 Miles

Bike: 56 Miles

Run: 13.1 Miles

I guess that's going to be most of my updates from here on out. Logging whether or not I've survived. Today was the first day of training. Not too bad.

45 mins of cardio

Core and arm work out

Currently, keeping track of what I'm eating. Their goal for me (and I say their goal bc mine is just to finish the half tri) is to have me down to 20% body fat aka drop roughly 15 lbs. I'm concerned about dropping that much weight, but we'll see how it goes. If I feel like I'm in any kind of danger zone, I'm prepared to speak up.

I'm excited to get back into shape and be active nonetheless. I think I've had a lot of fun traveling, moving, working but it's time to get back into physical activities. I always did enjoy running and working out. It helped me de-stress a lot. I do forget how much time it eats up though. I think today alone working out, cooling down, and finding food to replenish energy was roughly 3 hours.

If I plan to work out 6 times a week, this is going to be a huge time commitment. Well, here's to going big or going home.

"If you think it is difficult to do the right thing with your life, think about how difficult it will be to live your life doing the wrong things. Many people think doing the right thing is hard, and I agree with them, it is hard. On the other hand, doing the wrong thing seems easy, but boy, oh boy, does it get hard fast. And undoing the wrong thing seems to take a lot more time and energy than we thought, all the while taking this effort away from doing the right thing. So before you go for that easy, comfortable wrong thing, take a second look at what will be involved in undoing it, and then do the right thing. Believe it or not, doing the right thing turns out to be doing the easiest thing."
-- Edward W. Smith, Sixty Seconds To Success

oh downtown san jose

you never cease to amaze me with the sad state of affairs your men at the bars are.

"Man Jose....where the odds are good but the goods are odd." I drink to you. Cheers.