Some days are just awesome, some days suck....

So, some at some points in life it feels like the universe is smiling down on me. On Friday morning I received a very, very nice email from the tri club kid CJ. He said they had a meeting and decided that September would be the best time for The Bobact and that they thought it would be okay if I was race director and that they would be very privileged to have me on board as the clubs faculty/staff adviser.  Now how about that as completely what I was looking for and how awesome is that!!!!! A fall Bobcat! Plus, I can be active in the community of triathlon in Bozeman and try and help some of these kids love the sport!

# 2 Totally awesome and great thing that happened this week. My good, good friend Lawrence has been telling me about this bike riding program he has for weeks now. I think I am stubborn and don't listen to him very well sometimes. He has a computrainer (the "Tritons" bought one and he ended up with it in his basement when the club basically died) and he has the computrainer hooked up to this other sweet program which I can't remember the name of. It has threshold testing programs and then workouts etc. I asked him if I could use it to do that workout on Thursday because I didn't want to bring my workout to Annalisa (I think she will want to write the workouts) and of course he said yes. He isn't claiming ownership of the computrainer since it technically isn't his. Anyway, he has this sweet setup. A monitor to watch videos or bad TV while doing the workouts. Basically, access to it anytime. Basically free. The program is 10$ a month if I want to do my own threshold testing and workouts with my own target power. Cadence. Heart rate. I actually think that if I borrow Lisa's power tap I could set this whole thing up myself. It used some sort of wireless connection to link the program to the power. Anyway, my questions for you. Is this something you see as ideal to use as a training tool for the next few months? Can you write the workouts for it? How do I tactfully tell Annalisa I don't want to use her system? ( Sorry about the last question, I hate those kind of conversations)

And then some days just suck. Get an email from the boss this a.m. His wife and I do book club together. I had heard he was leaving in two weeks and asked her what for and asked her if it was another interview. She said yes. Maybe a little out of line, but we are "friends" and friends talk about work. Anyway, the email is reprimanding the whole lab for talking to other people about his work/travel life and telling us HE is the only person we can talk to about it. My thoughts, FUCK YOU Josh, and I really, really need to get a new job, and FUCK, I guess I can't be friends with your wife. Tears. (Sorry for all the F***) In Bozeman people are friendly. I hate this whole thing of having to keep a line between work and friendship. Really they can be both.

Schedule-
Thursday- Work day but I think I can get that stuff done that you already prescribed.
Friday- Going to the Banff Film Festival with my sister. In the evening. Will be able to work around everything.
In general- Lab meeting for this semester just got scheduled from 3-5 on Fridays. I said I wasn't available from 11-1 basically for the tri club and swimming but it does sort of hamper swimming in the 4-6 shift if I have to. Usually meetings are only an hour though, so hopefully doesn't affect me to much. (Obviously not so into being a good employee right now)

The week:
Thursday night swim. Did not feel it. Kept trying to focus on form and it just wouldn't come so I gave up (halfway through a 100 consciously thought the words fuck it) and just tried to keep up with the people in my lane. We did a bunch of 100's getting faster each set. I think it was a good strategy. Abby in my lane said she felt like crap too. Maybe we were tired from all the IM ing from Tuesday.

Friday
Big work day again. Sorry I don't think I put that in the last correspondence. Three big work days in a week. One is the usual and three is a lot of work. I was so tired by the end of the week. Did time it absolutely perfect so that I could get the swim in. The swim was pretty hard and after Tuesday and Thursday at Masters I felt like my arms might fall off. Didn't get to the run. The weather here has been awful. It is so, so, so icy out there and running on that in the dark has been deterring me a lot. Hopefully I will get those ice grippers today.

Saturday
Good day. Rested up from Friday. Had a good swim. I can do a 25 on 20 seconds basically, I have to work really hard to make 20 so if I am slacking a bit it is usually more like 21. Did the first bunch going as hard as possible but was getting frustrated because I know my form was off. I know I was really flat. No rotation. Faster arm turnover= less rotation (not sure if this is for everybody, but this is my pattern). So, I tried the last 4 25's using good form. I was surprised that with good form and less effort I could still swim 25 on ~20 seconds. So, what to do on these? Fast and hard? Or good form and just as fast? I just can't quite get hard, fast and good form to fit into the sentence together.
Rode with Lawrence. Very glad we did that ride together. It was hard. Probably harder than any other ride this year. We were convincing ourselves of that last 20K effort.

Sunday
Masters! Fun swim. Did a 500 where we all swim and the last person has to sprint around and get to the front of the line. I couldn't believe how long it took. Almost the whole 50. Had Lawrence watch my again because I sort of feel stagnant swimming right now. He said to keep working on the high elbow on my right arm and start working on my reach. We kept calling it an extended reach. He says me rotation looks fine but it is the reach I need to get more streamlined. Actually started to get a cramp in my shoulder. You know the kind that you get in your feet or calves. First time for everything. It didn't actually fully cramp up.
Cold, windy, and super icy. I convinced Lawrence to run at the M with me. 1:30 or so of trail running. Going up some pretty steep stuff. Like I said above the outside running is absolutely terrible right now. Maybe not what you prescribed but in town I think running consistent is impossible.