Captains Log: Day 1

Failure to plan is planning to fail!!  Well lucky for me my wife Ann is the most organized person I know.  She does a great job keeping me in check because I'm one of the most unorganized people I know.  But not even she could help with day one of training.

Let's take a step back real quick.  Let me introduce myself, afterall it might be weird to read about a total stranger.  My name is Sam Hardman, i'm a Realtor in Northern Virginia where I grew up.  I have a wonderful family, my wife Ann, and 2 boys, Sammy and Mason.  I'm a bigger fella and when my second son Mason was born I decided it was time to get in shape.  I started a diet and weighed in at a svelte 300lbs. (not my finest moment)  Just through diet I was able to drop 60 lbs and there I've sat for about a year.  I wanted to start working out and I had alway wanted to finish a triathlon.  So i did.  I finished my first sprint tri in June of 2010, and not even in last place.  It was awesome!!  So awesome that i signed up for another one in October 2010.  The problem was that I hardly worked out at all between the two races, and it showed.  My tri in Oct was hard for me.  I was embarrassed.  So now, I will use that feeling to fuel me through this off season, and I will be more than ready next spring.  Today was the first day of training and I chose to swim, it's what i struggle with the most.

Knowing that I would be swimming this morning, Ann had me pack last night so I would be good to go.  My boys typically wake up at 6:30 or so.  We get ready and I take them to daycare at 8:00.  I would be to the pool and in the water by 8:15, out changed at to work by 9:30.  Perfect!!

What happened was the boys slept until 7:30, I forgot that I had taken their car seats out of my car, so those had to be put back in.  I had to put dinner in the crock pot and make breakfast for me and the boys.  I dropped them of at daycare a full HOUR late.  Not cool, that's a real rookie move.

I got the the pool, or apparently the senior center soaking spot as it should be called, at 9:15.  When I got to the locker room, I was the youngest on there by at lease 30 years.  I saw a man in the shower, curtain open mind you, with a cane.  Those guys love being naked!!  Zero sence of urgency to cover anything up...none.  Just loose skin moving about here and there.  Anyway, I got in the pool swam my laps, taking breaks frequently, while the 80 year old woman next to me just kept going.  I have work to do!!!  At least my bag was all packed the night before right?  Wrong...  I forgot underwear!!!  I am a 31 year old man who forgot to pack underwear!!!  I think I actually heard one of my naked locker room buddies mumble something about it as I put on my pants commando style.  So now, here I sit, at the office, typing away, free ballin...but at least day 1 is done.  Let's see what day 2 brings??