Here I am in the middle of March 2012 and I am down 2 races from my schedule. My little triathlete of the future is showing up June 27th and after months of thinking about it I am not doing Ironman Coeur D'Alene. The race was scheduled for June 24th and my beautiful bride might be a little upset if I missed the birth of our first born. I have been naive enough to think that there was not too much going on to keep me busy leading up to the race. I actually had it in my head that a nursery, registry and such wouldn't really be a big deal.
I found myself into early March having finished my first annual check ride for Southwest airlines, 10 extra hours of online job training, and countless hours of baby prep while completely out of shape. I found out first hand that Red Rock has a great refund/transfer policy. I am now adjusting my schedule from an evenly distributed to one focusing on late 2012. I will now be joining the Firefighter in October for another Red Rock race called Soma. This is prep for Ironman Arizona 2012 which I am more focused on then ever.
Life happens fast when your checking the rear view mirror, but at the time it moved by so slowly. Every time I skipped a workout while looking at a crib, or going to a doctors appointment with my wife there was always more time. Today was a nice day, catching up on business and preparing for plan B. My Wheaties Fuel year has come to an end, all my race reports filled out, and a great season as an active ambassador in the books. I have a plan for getting back into things after making it three for three on post Ironman not exercising. I'm sure that I'll find out the hard way what it's like to be a father in training, though the overnights at Southwest will help out a lot.
2012 now holds a schedule of Soma in October, Ironman Arizona in November and then a lot of running races in 2013. I can't join the whole family of the Firefighter to do a race in Idaho, but when life happens you make plan B. Today marks the beginning of my new training season and hopefully an exciting year of 2012 in the Peele house.
