skinny

Ok, this morning, another of my friendz called me skinny. This is already the fifth time that somebody called me skinny. Wazzup with that? have I really become skinny. It used to be the word that I never thought people would call me. for the longest time people used to call me fatboy, even members of my family; that I have become accustomed to it that if my family called me by my actual name, that would sound really really weird. But, oh well….anyways, the truth is, yes, I did lose a few more lbs since a few months back. Was it something that planned? Don’t think so, then again, my training and my diet probably caused that. at the same time, one of my friendz gave an encouragement word. She was saying that looks like I’m really really bringing it on for this upcoming year. am i? probably. I wanted to do a better race compare to last year. how better? That is what I’m not sure.
In some ways, I do feel better in overall, in terms of running and swimming. can’t say much about the biking, since I had not biked on the road yet. training has been tweaked a little bit. I changed some training habits that I did in the past. And, I do feel good. So far, so good. We’ll see. With goals that I have for this year, some people said I’m quite optimistic, others think is possible, or maybe even manageable. One person think it’s exciting, which for me, I think it is. I am indeed very very exciting for this year. not just in terms of racing performance, but also other stuffs in life.

moonlit run

last nite I did my usual nite run. It was pretty cold. But it’s a good thing I do have the gears for it. I think the temperature was around 19s fahrenheit. Not too bad, quite bearable. Some spots on the road were still filled with slick ice patch, but at most of it, I could already see the bare asphalt.
something different about the run last nite. After a while, I never really thought about this, but surprisingly there was a bright moon lite last nite. I was not running in the dark last nite. I can actually look at the roads pretty clearly and the one thing that I like the most; I can see my shadow on the ground during my run last nite. That was really great. never had that happened before to me during a nite run. Usually, I’ll be looking for light post, street light and nearby house light for my nite run, but last nite, no, don’t need to.
Things and times like that made me realize about the things that I have surroundings me that sometimes I take it for granted. But then, u realized it while u’r in the midst of ‘dark’. The moonlit that was shine with the help of the sun made me realized that GOD is always there with us wherever we are and whatever it is that we are doing. He is always there to watch over u, to shine on u and for u. to give lamp to ur feet and the light unto ur path. Just like this verse -> Ps 119:105 - Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

2009 words

these are the words that i found in the beginning of 2009 that i felt really really hit me. really really give me a revelation for this year. this one, i heard it about a couple of weeks ago and i think this applies to me in so many ways. for training, for races, for work, and for everyday life in general.

faith is trust in Christ sufficient to provoke obedience to Christ and to receive benefits

what does having faith do?

faith battles temptation

dawn run…

yesterday i was deciding whether i wanted to run after work or not. i wasn’t so sure. then, as i got home, the wind and snow picked up, so i decided to just run the next day. i had thought about running in the morning, since I was planning to have a meeting in the afternoon. then, the next morning, not sure why and how, i was awake at 4am. cannot believe it and yet, cannot get back to sleep; so, i looked out the window. still dark, saw a little drifting snow with no wind, no cars passing by, check my iphone for temperature and it showed 26 degree fahrenheit.

i decided to run.

man….., was i wrong? it was indeed cold, and the effect of the wind that i didn’t hear and/or see started to pick up and i can definitely feel it going to certain direction. So i thought, oh well….i’m out already….
surprisingly, the roads were not too bad; yes, there were a couple of slick spots, but i was able to run smoothly as normal. even, at some point, i was able to pick up my speed, especially when there was car passing by. i was pretty sure everybody that was in the car driving pass me, thought, ‘…this guy must be crazy…’ oh well… i ended up running for a little over an hour. good workout and ready to head out to work and meetings…

1st training day 1, 2009

happy new year, today marks the first day I blog on the training blog for 2009. yesterday, I started my official training for the season. boy…, was that an awakening…?! the training day that I thought was going to be an easy day of training tuned into a definite work load training. it started with the 10mile bike test on the computrainer, which i guess i kind of voluntarily do. it was pretty hard; considering i had to reach certain heart rate and certain cadence. then, i had to maintain that for a period of time. in comparison to my other teammates that was in the gym, their workout is definitely lighter than mine. then again, i guess i kind of ‘paying’ for what i did and did not do during the first 3-4 workout days with the team.

it was pretty nice to be back training with teammates. see a couple of new faces and of course, old faces always there. this year’s team is definitely different. a lot of new people. a lot of unknown. in a way, i really think it’s great. i, personally, definitely excited for this season. a couple of new goals. opportunities to train with pretty much a totally different group of people.

unknown?! for me, somehow this year had started with that. quite a few things that i am unknown. it’s not that i don’t know what to do, or what i want to do, but maybe it’s just the result. then again, in a way, i actually feel this year, GOD definitely wants to teach me something new in relation to the realm of the unknown. on the other hand, i also felt that GOD wants me to fully committed to HIM. to believe and trust HIM even more, to really really walk by faith in HIM and with HIM. hm….interesting…..i just now thought about that…

the bike training was followed by swim training. i wasn’t so sure why i swam yesterday, but somehow, i just felt i didn’t want to fall behind too far from my teammates, that i decided to do some cool down swimming. i did about 40min of swim. not too bad. i always enjoy swimming. it is one of the reasons i’m doing tri. saw a couple of my teammates in the pool and i was able to do some drills.

The first day ended with a bowl of pasta and rest.

After having been talked to a couple of my teammates, here are the list of camps and races that as of now i’ll be doing;

columbus camp
portsmouth camp

cap city half
gct
triple-t

others are still being decided…