Miserable training week; what happened? I'm not sure what happened this week. Seems like a confluence of bad luck and bad scheduling. I haven't trained much at all this week and now I'm only 2 weeks from Iron Star. I have a feeling this is not going to be my best triathlon results. This week started out looking not too bad. As I mentioned on Monday, I missed the workout Sunday because I just had too much work to do at home. I missed a workout Monday because of work-related issues. Tuesday was lightning and thunder all day, so no workout. Wednesday I traveled to College Station for work. I made it back in time to get to my swim workout, so at least I got that one done.

Yesterday, I had to travel to Galveston. I made it back to town in time for my run workout class, but I forgot my running shoes and had to hustle home to get them. The traffic was so bad trying to get from Leander to Barton Springs Road that I gave up at about 6:30 PM when I was still sitting on MoPac a good 15 minutes from Barton Springs. The workout started at 6:00 and ended at 7:00. It just wasn't worth it to show up at 6:45.

Today's plan was to ride to work from Leander. Would've been a nice 26-mile ride. But, the cold front and the clouds conspired against me. With the cold front, the clouds delayed the sunrise by about 20 minutes. It's 7:50 AM as I write this and it's still dark enough that I wouldn't be comfortable on the road without a bike light (which I don't have yet). I knew I couldn't wait until 8:00 or 8:30 to start my ride in, so I bagged it and drove at 6:30 AM. So, now, I'll probably ride 22 miles at lunch with Jason, but I was hoping to do both.

Then, tomorrow, I have to go to Dallas for a deposition at 10:00 AM. I know . . . a deposition on Saturday . . . . It's my first weekend deposition, but it has to be done. That means I don't get to do the 50-mile taco ride this weekend, and in fact, don't get to train at all tomorrow.

As you can tell, I'm feeling pretty down about this week. This is NOT the week I needed to have all this stuff screw up my training. I wish it all could have been delayed by 3 weeks. Then, Iron Star would be over, the season would be over, and I'd be fine with missing some training.

Oh well, though . . . I guess this just means I need to strive to get back on schedule next week. One can only hope!!