One Clydesdale’s Journey

Seriously! I can’t believe the thoughts that are running through my head.

Follow me here. This past week we finished our last Tri-Fit class and in all 3 events it was “race” night. Not that we actually raced each other, but we were going at race pace for the training.

Now everyone knows that no matter how hard you train, race pace or competition pace is not the same as your full out training pace. Oh, its close I’ll give you that. But let’s face it, everyone digs a little deeper and finds just a little more when the competition is really on.

Which brings me to the thoughts that I had today…
I was thinking about how I have actually been getting closer to completing a 5k distance during our 30 minute training sessions on the treadmill. And since I have been able to bring my time down with each 5k that I have competed in, that 30 minute mark is my next goal.

But, the last 5k that we were in was last month and we don’t have any plans for one in the near future. Until we do another 5k I’m not going to know how close I am to that goal though.

So that got me thinking that I should do some searching and see what events are coming up so that Shelly and I can sign up.

WHAT?!?!?! I’m actually thinking about doing this on my own.

See, prior to this Shelly has always been the one that has found the event and signed us up. So I had an excuse if I didn’t do well after all it wasn’t my idea in the first place. I use the same theory when it comes to signing karaoke. Oh I’ll do it, but Shelly has to sign me up. I believe the military calls it “plausible deniability” if I’m not mistaken.

I haven’t done that search yet, but now that the idea is in my head I know that I’m stuck with it until I do something about it.

Later,
John W.
A Clydesdale in training