It’s been an exciting few weeks around here on many fronts.  The kids have started back to school so we’ve begun settling into the fall routine.  Now if the weather would do the same.

On the fundraising front I launched an Aggie Football Pick’em for CTF.  The idea came from the great minds of the Health & Fitness board over on TexAgs.  In a little over 10 days we managed to raise close to $1,000 for CTF!  That puts me right at the $3,500 mark, leaving 62 days to raise my final $2,000.  I’m feeling pretty optimistic at this point.  As always if you would like to help me get a few dollars closer you can do it right here.  And congrats to Endo BC Ag, Montgomery, and OldAg93, the winners from week one.

On the training front things have been insanely busy.  Training time is consistently over 15 hours a week at this point.  I have to say a huge thank you to my family for letting me do this and being so supportive.  Only eight more weeks and it’s all done.

I’m feeling pretty good about my training times and efforts.  My swims are runs are still slower than I would prefer but I’m ok with it.  My bike remains strong which is my ace in the hole at this point.  The only trick is going to be not over-biking on race day.

This weekend a stomach bug threw me a little bit of a curve ball.  I was able to get my 80 mile bike ride in on Saturday.  On Sunday I was scheduled to run 18.  I had begun having “issues” around 4 PM on Saturday night and into the evening.  Sunday morning I was still feeling a bit off kilter but decided to give it a shot.  Around mile 2.5 that shot ended up in the toilet, literally.  I decided to try one last time and finally by mile 5 called it quits.  I’m hoping to give it another go in the morning, we’ll see what happens.

The end is now in sight.