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I just received confirmation that my shoes have arrived on my door step. Yay, except I won’t wear them running for another week. But they will be fun to look at and transfer my speed laces over to them. Also arriving today are my new Compression sleeves. I am super excited about them. I am going to put them on as soon as they arrive. I will be playing softball until I die tomorrow so I will wear them in between games. The games, I get more beat up than when I just do tri training, but it gives my muscles a little bit of a different workout. My legs have just been so dead this last week and a half and I still have another week left. I really notice that they are tired when I do hills on the bike and they are super tight when I run. I think my body is trying to tell me to not run. I have this pain in the very bottom center of the ball of my foot today that developed when I was sleeping. Great. I am hoping it goes away by tomorrow. I will need to put my orthotics in my cleats tomorrow because those are what kill my feet. If the field was a little bit softer it wouldn’t be so bad. Well my run last night really sucked. It was such a gorgeous day and I felt like shit. My legs were so tight. I spent quite a bit of time before I ran stretching and that helped until I had to run up a hill and then they tightened up and I was miserable. I feel like I am running with two stiff boards. They don’t cramp up, they are just tight. I need someone to give me a massage. I got home and stretched out really good before my softball game. Good thing I did because my first at bat I had an in the park homer that I had to sprint around the bases. My quads gave out after I rounded first but they kicked back in before I fell on my face. I am glad I am not sore, but my body is defiantly screaming for a day off. I think I am going to take next Tuesday off because that seems to be the day I have my horrible workout and I am completely spent. That will recharge me to finish out my last week strong. As much as I would rather be sitting at home eating ice cream and watching a movie, I am going to really miss doing these long workouts. I had the most perfect workout Wednesday night. I got to the pool. Had the whole pool to myself. It was such a great peaceful swim. That hour went by way to fast. I even sat in the hot tub for 5 min. I wish I could have stayed longer, but I needed to get home to do my bike before it got dark. I took off on the bike. It was so nice out, not hot, not windy. Perfect. This was the first time in a while that I was enjoying myself. This is where it hit me that I was really going to miss training for an Ironman. I am sure now that I will do this again. I need to figure out what I am going to do after my race. I need something to train for otherwise I won’t get my butt outside to do anything. I need to have a goal. I wish there was a half IM closer to Des Moines in the spring to do. After all this Ironman thinking, nothing else really seems challenging to me. I am thinking about just focusing on getting fast for the Olympic distance to qualify for nationals at Big Creek next year and actually doing Nationals if I qualify. That might be a lofty goal, but hey, I have a whole year to train for it. It will just be hard to get myself going fast after doing these long easy workouts. I will have to ride with Tribeaner. She kicked my butt on the hills.