get off the couch.....

And start training again. That's what I did this week, after a month long hiatus from any real physical activity. In the past 10 days I've gotten together with my coach, Jen Henry of The Sport Factory, and planned out one heck of an exciting tri season.

Monday was my first day and coming off a cold and a month off, I'm definitely feeling a little lethargic out there. At the same time I feel better than I did towards the end of my off season. So what's on tap for this year? No full Ironman, that's for sure! I'll be focusing on a combination of the olympic distance and the half iron distance.

What excites me most about this year is having a coach from start to finish. Last year I blindly threw myself into Ironman training for nearly 5 months before I started working with Jen, and I paid for it dearly in the end. Looking back I did way to much to early, which may have helped me have a great day for Ironman - but left me with nothing left as far as training mojo after that. I felt lucky to have the results I did the last few months of the season. With that being said I'm looking forward to a more metered approach this year.

Here is my planned schedule for this year, the light gray races are the ones I'm still not sure about and depending on how I'm feeling I may or may not do them.

Dec 11^th Jingle Jog 5k Dunwoody, GA

Dec 18^th Virginia Highliands X-mas 5k Atlanta, GA

Jan 9^th Lakeview 10k Gainesville, GA

Feb 5^th Tybee Island Half Marathon Tybee Island, GA

Feb 19^th Tundra Time Trial Hiram, GA

March 27^th Powerman Alabama Duathlon (long course Duathlon Nationals) Birmingham, AL

April 17^th PT Solutions Cartersville Duathlon Cartersville, GA

April 30^th TryCharleston Half Charleston, SC

May 14^th Peachtree International Tri PTC, GA

June 12^th West Point Lake Lagrange, GA

July 10^th Chattanooga Waterfront Chattanooga, TN

July 24^th Tri the Mountains (Sprint) Blue Ridge, GA

August 13^th Mountain Lakes Tri (Sprint) Guntersville, AL

September 11^th 5150 Series race Gainesville, GA

September 25^th, 2011 Augusta 70.3 Augusta, GA

October 2^nd Lake Lanier Islands Triathlon (sprint) Buford, GA

October 16^th Hickery Knob Olympic Hickery Knob SP, SC

November 12^th, 2011 Beach2Battleship Half Wilmington, NC