It's gonna be a little gnarly

Basically 5 weeks until I start taper for Vineman 70.3 and 6.5 weeks til the race so the rest of my training looks a little like this: two weeks of gnarly training (for me), one week of less gnarly training, two more weeks of gnarly training, two week of taper. So I am focused on the following things:

• Getting enough sleep (already botched this one up last night when I couldn't stay alseep...arg!!)
• Getting enough food. (I have trouble eating enough calories once done with a heavy workout. )
  
• Replenishing my glycogen stores within 30mins of training
• Drinking enough fluids during the day and during workouts
• Dialing in my nutrition (Pretty close to this, but trying few new things)
• Stretching and taking proper care of muscles with ice baths, massages, ect.
  
• oh...and having fun

Few cool things going on...I am previewing the bike course on a computrainer next week. I'm pretty excited for that one. It will calm any anxiety about the bike I have (which remarkably is little).

Also what is nuts is there are a lot of firsts for me over the next 5 weeks before the actual race. First time riding 80 miles, First time running 16 miles, First time sitting on my trainer for 3ish hours (while I want to preview the bike course i'm not so sure how I really feel about being on the trainer that long).

So I doubt i'll be around much on the blogsphere here soon...mainly because of that whole: get enough sleep thing. But I'll do my best.

Happy training