Training: Decent ...

So about a month and a half to go to the tri and my training is getting ... better. I've started swimming at least twice a week (which i know i need to amp up, but compared to my no swimming ever, this is an upgrade) and biking when I can, though that's dropped off the past week.

However, getting myself to run more than 10 or 15 minutes at a time is a real struggle. I don't know, unless I'm in a competitive-type atmosphere, I get too bored or ... something. That, however, brings me to tonight ...

A few weeks ago, someone dropped off a few pamphlets for the Summer Solstice Race (for melanoma research) at work. I thought about doing it, but never signed up given that I really haven't been running much (stupid lack of motivation). However, I knew that I had to run at some point this week and run outside. Most people I've talked to said I needed to start running outside a lot more but I despise running outside in my neighborhood because it's hilly and I hate hills. ANYWAY, this one was in the relative flat-land that is City Park. Sooo, I drove over there and signed up. The race was at 6:30 this evening and it was still 90 freaking degrees outside (tied a record at 97 today). I started off slow and steady (harkening back to the relative success it brought me back in may in boulder), even though the two other people I knew there got in front of me. I managed to run the first two miles (longest. two. miles. ever.) without walking, but the heat and my asthma decided to overtake me and force me to walk some. I still kept a decent pace when I did walk, so that's a positive ... plus I passed the two other people I knew.

I don't know my final time (stupid people didn't have a working race clock) AND I won't find out until Monday (wtf?!) how I did, but I'm guessing it was somewhere between 34 and 36 minutes which isn't great, but considering the conditions and that I haven't run much lately, I'll take it.

Now I just need to find some way to make myself run that much on a semi-regular basis without continually forking out the dough for races ...