First Post: Introduction

Hello, this is my first post on my new blog. Take a minute to take her in. Isn't it lovely?
So the point of this blog will be mainly to track my progress in training for triathlon. I want to document my workouts and also try to get a hold on nutrition and other factors that go into performance.

I recently did a half marathon and had a pretty bad day. I was sufficiently trained, but the morning of the race, I started to feel sick to my stomach. It was a horrible feeling and the race, despite an awesome course, turned out to be a miserable experience. I dont' want to repeat that, or at least I don't want to repeat that for the same (hopefully preventable) reasons.

So I'll start with my workout today. I did a bootleg version of interval training. This was my first experience with this sort of thing, so needless to say I didn't come out too strong.

I rode my bike to the SMC track. It was freaking cold today and despite wearing a hooded sweater and tight bike/triathlon shorts under my running shorts I was pretty cold. I got to the track and took a few warm up laps.

1 mile warmup - 10 minutes
1 mile full out - 6:39
1 lap recover - 5 minutes
1 mile full out - 6:57
3 laps slow run to cooldown (didn't need much to cool off)

Ride back to my apartment.

I ate way hardily at my church christmas party tonight, then went to my girlfriend, Crystal's work party where there was an open bar. I had 2 Bushmill's on the rocks. Tomorrow is going to be a dead-serious Monday. Ouch!