"It's fun to stay at the Y-M-C-A"

Well, I've finally done it. Today I got a membership to the YMCA. FINALLY. Thank God. I've gotten fed up with not having a reliable location to swim, workout, etc. I'm really excited to be getting into the pool everyday now. I'm gonna be working on endurance... after about 12 weeks I'll be at non-stop breast or side-stroke for 75 minutes a day. This is the missing link I've been waiting for... I've got the running down, the pushups, situps, pullups down... and now I can get in the swimming, weightlifting, and if i want, bicycling. I want to someday try to compete competitively in the Ironman competition. Ya know, where you swim 2.4 miles, bike 107 miles, and then run a marathon. The biking part would be the toughest for sure... actually, the whole thing would be a killer. Anyway, right now I'm gonna just try to get to where I can swim 75 minutes, non-stop - a day. I still need to work on my side-stroke, I read the Navy's online instruction manual on how to do the stroke, but it would kinda help to have someone watch me and show me exactly how to do it. I also need to learn how to turn around at the end of the pool, like do that twist thing. That's a big problem... I know it's not hard; but again, I just need someone to teach me. Running has been great this week. I've gotten in 25 miles in four days so far. Today I'll be adding on another six, and same tomorrow.. so I'm looking at 37-38 miles this week. Nooot bad.

I NEED TO EAT MORE. I don't eat enough... in fact I need to go make myself a tuna-sandwich right now... but in closing... I need to foce myself to take the time and make myself vast amounts of food. Yesterday was my boiling point. For breakfast I had a bowl of cereal... WOW such nutrition!! Then for lunch.. guess what! An egg-salad sandwich.. now that is filling.. hah! Then I kinda.. but not really, made it up at dinner, where I had a fried-chicken breast and thigh, and some potato salad from Publix. But still.. absolutely no excuse. So this morning I ate a HUGE breakfast... I'm talking four eggs, a big bowl of grits (that's right you Yankees GRITS! lol), 8 slices of bacon, four slices of bread, three chocolate chip cookies, and a big glass of milk.

Ah, finally friday... I'm free again, I got my motor runnin' for a wild weekend. It's finally Friday I'm outta control.. forget the workin' blues and let the good times ro-o-o-o-o-ll! (from George Jones, "Finally Friday")

*** Happy Friday all ya'll ***