mellow Jesse

(feeling better today)

Without all this major IM training, my life has really gotten more relaxed.

However, it's actually taken a while to get used to it. I seemed to have gone from squeezing the most out of every minute of every day to procrastinating almost everything, and then forgetting about the things I delayed.

So the pendulum is seems to be reaching an equilibrium, or at least a centered balance, and I am no longer procrastinating, but I'm also not rushing to get everything done NOW knowing that I won't have time later.

This makes me (and those around me) more relaxed and happy. I'm actually getting caught up on sooo many things that I just couldn't squeeze in during my IM training and couldn't muster the energy to tackle when I took some time off. My office at work, for example is now in tip-top shape! Yeah! I finally bought a road bike! Yeah! Took a long over due trip to Chicago - Yeah!

No big races on the horizon takes a lot of pressure off, that's for sure, but I am starting to run again... 7 mile today (middle 5 were pretty hard miles), 5 miles yesterday, and speedwork on the treadmill the day before (2min @ 6min pace, 1min @10min pace x8).

My foot is 'better', but not 100%. My knee is better and I've decided to take some time off the bike to see if it gets even better. I think the bike, more than the run is bothering it... bummer - I do love to ride.

Anyway, I'm 'feelin' pretty chill these days.