Journey to a Tri (Triathlon) Sept 13, 2009

This morning Eric and I took a morning walk and as we came to the top of our street, on Highland Blvd., the road was blocked off for the Rochester Marathon. The runners had started in downtown Rochester a few minutes before. It was a beautiful day - clear skies, temperate weather and the leaves had not begun to change their colors and fall. We continued our walk up to Cobb's Hill Revervoir and on our way down I could hear the cheers of people as the runners ran by. When we got closer and I could see the stream of runners, I began to choke up. It surprised me how emotional I became - tears came to my eyes and I began to cry. It caught me off guard and was total feeling without a lot of thoughts. Just like seeing someone you didn't expect to ever see again.

I have decided that my first Triathon (or Tri) will be in the Green Lakes Triathlon in Syracuse, NY in June 2010. Katherine and I will do this together and we have 9 months to prepare. Here's the link http://www.ymcaofgreatersyracuse.org/Downtown/ymca_triathlon.aspx

I joined Weight Watchers in order to make myself more aware and accountable for what I eat. So far it has prevented me from some mindless eating and I've thought twice about buying and eating something because I feel stressed out. I do a lot of stress eating and I can choose not to do that. I'd like to lose 10 lbs before I do some serious running. So I will walk every day and eat to nourish my body and once my heart monitor comes back with a new battery, I will do more walk/runs. I read that if you exercise outside of the areobic zone and go into oxygen deficit anaerobic process to burn carbs instead of fat, then it takes your body 6 - 8 hrs to start burning fat again. Don't know if it is true - but I will take it as fact for now. Mostly because starting slow and then conditioning my heart and body to still stay at a lower heart rate while doing more sounds like the right thing to do.

So tomorrow starts a new morning schedule for our family and me. Seminary for Daniel starts again and so after I drop him off at 6am at the Church, I will go to Buckland Park and walk/run around the park until 6:40 and return home to get ready for work. Morning exercise works best for me and so this will work out well.