Monday, November 1, 2010

It is time.

My mind is ready for the "not season" to be over but the jury is still out on my body. Today, though, two things of note happened:
  1. I registered for my first event of 2011 The St Anthony's Olympic Triathlon in St. Petersburg, FL on May 1. I was able to register early since I deferred out of the 2010 edition of this race due to injuries. I'm in a new age group so there will be a new bunch of fat geezers to beat me.
  2. I officially started back up training with my coach, Bike Mike.

I still have a lot of aches and pains but I'm going to embrace what I can do, not what I can't. My weight loss focus was lost when I went to Asia but I'm back on that bandwagon. My physical limitations might mean cutting back a bit on the number of events but my plan is to pick a big event and go for it. I may fall short but the journey is the destination.

Game on.

8 comments:

Caratunk Girl said...

Go get em Joe! Here is to a healthy 2011!

Jason said...

Congrats on registereing for events already. That is how you keep motivating yourself to keep on training.

teacherwoman said...

You got this, dude. Game on!

Heather said...

Good for you!! Sounds like you are well on your way.

Pahla said...

That's right, game on! Yay!!

Unknown said...

focussing on what you CAN do will get you pretty far. I learned that myself this summer. :-)

KovasP said...

Enjoy the winter and congrats on registering for a 2011 event!

TRI714 said...

Thats hot out of the gate. Good on you for pre registration.