It's Beginning to Feel Like Ironman Training

It's beginning to feel like ironman training when:

• It's hard to drag your ass out of bed.
• You keep running out of workout clothes because they are all dirty. I need a maid.
• The housework and yardwork doesn't get done. No wait...it doesn't get done anyway. I need a yard boy too. A cute one.
• When you get sleepy at 8:30 p.m. This does not do wonders for my social life.
• When you start obsessing about food and seriously consider consuming food you wouldn't normally be caught dead with-like Ensure.
• When instead of being fresh and energetic for workouts you are counting the minutes until it ends.

It's beginning to feel like ironman training in Arizona when:

• You can't get up early enough to escape the heat because it's 90 degrees at dawn.
• The pool water at masters is warm enough for bathing. But you wouldn't want to bath in it because of the little kids that pee in it.
• You need to stuff ice in your underwear just to get through a run. And it melts in 1 minute.
• You are on a long bike ride and you hope you finish before you run out of water and the asphalt melts.
• You are hoping that the light-headed feeling isn't heat exhaustion.

It's beginning to feel like ironman training when hope still leads you on. 135 days until Ironman Arizona