Counterfeit Milk

It has been a pretty good day so far. Always nice when Friday works out smooth and relaxing, a quiet roll down into the weekend.

The day started off on the right track with a good swim this morning. At Swim Smooth, Friday is all about threshold training and today's main set was right out of Threshold 101, 20 x 100m. It has been a while since I have done a set like that, and I really enjoyed it. Sure, the last 5 x 100s felt like a rapidly growing gorilla was sitting on my back, but that is part of the joy of a set like that. In short it went well. It is a nice simple set that I can easily compare to 12 months ago and say, you know what, I couldn't have done that back then. Just what you want.

The only downside with today is that we are out of milk in the office. All that is left is skim milk, which I don't classify as actual milk.

Not Milk

It has forced me to decide between fake milk and no milk. Given that I drink milk in my coffee, no milk would have also translated to no coffee. Needless to say that wasn't going to happen. I soldiered on with fake milk. Brave of me I know.

I printed out the Busselton athlete info pack today. If this race had been interstate or international I would have done this ages ago. With it being local I have been a little bit lazy, but I got myself into gear today. It is a big moment. As I have mentioned in previous posts, printing this stuff out is usually about the time when a race starts getting very real for me. For Busselton that moment was today. It is interesting though, I am not nervous, not yet anyway. A few months ago I thought I would be totally packing it about now, but I'm not. That will probably change in the coming week, but at the moment I am taking it as a sign that I think I am ready. I am not underestimating this race, I know it will hurt and be hard, but I also know that stressing about it now will not make it less so. Given I am a novice at this I can't know everything this race is going to ask of me, but I think I know, as much as I can anyway, that I am ready to give it.

Time will tell, my calmness may be misplaced, but at the moment I am enjoying the clarity and focus that comes with not being distracted by worry and stress.