Motivation Hunting

Two posts in two days? On this blog?!

Yes. I went to bed with the intention of waking up at 6:00 for a short treadmill run. I succumbed to my routine over the last two years of hitting snooze twice and rolling over until my regular daily alarm went off signaling the morning before-school-circus was to begin. 

So I'll be running tonight instead. It's killing me that I didn't follow through on my "first run" so this morning I've been putting together motivation tools to get my ass moving. Nothing truly new for me. I dug up the flash drive with my old training log from the 70.3 training year and saved it to my laptop's harddrive for easy access with a brand new, bright and shiny tab labeled "2015". Did some retail therapy and bought a new pair of training shoes to kick off my new mileage counter (a new brand to me: Saucony Verrata). 

But what I just found to be the best motivator was digging through some things from my 'past life' (yes, it's just two years ago but it seems like forever).

I read my Almanzo 100 report from 2013 then kept scrolling to read my 70.3 report. Gasp...I forgot that I didn't write anything here about it. It never happened!

Luckily, Professor Boz hasn't deleted his blog. Boz was generous enough to show up and practice some of his writing skills using me as a subject back in 2012. He followed me around the course all day and made his own race report which he merged together with my own account and posted to his blog in daily installments. I had originally meant to post coincidentally with his posts but never did. 

Without further redundant explanation, here is Part I of our Chisago Lakes Triathlon race report.