A journey of a thousand miles....

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. --Lao Tzu,
Chinese Taoist philosopher

I found a silver ring with a similar saying engraved in it. (Must a copyright issue?). Looking up this quote took me to other relevant Lao Tzu quotes:

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you
are heading.

And so tomorrow it begins. Sometimes I would tempt myself to think that I could start the day after Christmas, but I held out and waited until tomorrow. Even though my training will still be light with the FBR coming up, tomorrow is it! I can't help but wonder if I'll somehow change tomorrow when I start training--I'll be officially "training for an Ironman triathlon". Not getting ready to, and not planning to, but actually Training For An Ironman Triathlon. Yikes!

Another plan of mine was to make each training session count, to have a goal. To help with that, I'd planned to review the next day's training while recording the current one. Some schedule switching will be needed with the holidays and travel, but here goes....

Monday Dec 28th (Thurs workout): 45 min swim, main set of 1200y continuous; 45 min run, 15min at 65% and 20 min at 75% with perfect running form. There are 2-3 5 milers in the marathon training plan, this is one of them.