Our lives for the next 4 months....

Time for a Molly and John update. We are all caught up on Dominic for now. Molly and I are training for another Triathlon. This year we are doing a Half Ironman. This will be in Sunriver Oregon on June 26th. The race begins with a 1.2 mile open water swim followed by a mountainous 58 mile road bike ride finished off be a half marathon, 13.1 miles. This will be our longest attempt to date. We both have done sprint and Olympic distance triathlons before in 2007 before Dominic was born.

Molly, the athletic animal she is, did the Portland marathon last year,2009. She did great. I plan on doing the 2010 Portland marathon with her this year. We have a very active year planned for sure. We are in the beginning stages of our training for the year. I was sick for almost a full 2 months to start 2010. Sick enough to not be able to start training early like I had hoped. Molly has been dealing with some joint pain issues so she has been delayed too. I have been able to train now for the last 2 weeks and have been very happy with my progress, minus the swimming. I have the hardest time with the swimming for whatever reason. I will be devoting a lot of late nights to the Superior pool for the next few months.

It is a tricky thing trying to balance work, family and training time. I am mainly training after Dominic goes to bed, 8pm. I also am doing longer rides and runs during his naps on my days off. That has worked out well for maximizing my family and training times without neglecting either. As for time with my lovely wife, I have not figured all that out yet. We seem to find time for eachother though and that is great. When we are in longer training days it will become harder to balance it all. We know what we signed up for though and sacrifice is part of it.

We have 4 events scheduled for 2010 starting off with the Pear Blossom 10 mile run here in Medford. I have an extra triathlon scheduled, the Graniteman, which is a nice warm up for the Half Ironman. It includes a .75 mile swim in Applegate Lake, followed by a 14 mile mountain bike ride around the lake and finished up with a 5 mile run. Should be fun! Molly will not be doing this because of the treachorous mountain bike section. She may do one of the running events there the same day. I hope we can stay healthy and complete all of our active lofty goals for 2010. Wish us luck!!