Life On The Run

    Too much to think about. Race schedule. Training schedule. My "A Race," the half-Ironman. My B and C Races gearing up to the A Race. Fitting in Trail Runs and Adventure Races for my own personal pleasure. Tonight I am buying several calenders and a Day Planner. Who could have, or would have thought that deciding to run a triathlon for fun would have led to 13 events last summer, and even more this year? And the need for a Day Planner fer chrissake! A Day Planner!! I have never felt the need for such precision scheduling in my entire life. All for sport. I guess that is far better than needing a day planner for something as banal and tedious as work. But Brain is absolutely reeling today with the immensity of trying to accomplish all that I dream of doing this year. Maybe that is why I am tweaking on my race and training schedule, it lets me pull my mind away from the bigger picture for a few moments. Away from the Grand Adventures that are fomenting. Scuba diving in Belize? Yes, please. Escaping the tedium of my soul sucking job, with the help and encouragement of my bosom buddy and compatriot? Most definitely. Graduation as a firefighter? Oh. hell yes. Glorious changes are in the wind. So potentially epic that it boggles the mind. I narrow my focus to a race schedule, something on paper to help map out my year, plan a few weekends of competition between weekends of adventure,to help me dial in Brain to a manageable level, instead of a rampant spaz attack. I will get a Day Planner. I will fill it with doodles, scribbles, and schedules. Life on the run.