In the beginning...

Thanks for joining me on this journey. At this point, I really don't know what I'm doing, but with a little help from my friends I'm hoping this all works out. My intent is to get this under control and up and running over the course of the next week or so with the desire to keep folks informed, and involved, with my training and with the fundraising. This is a long process, and hopefully we can all stay better motivated with these postings. To prepare, I have been keeping active over the course of the winter fairly regularly. With three events to prepare for, the swim, bike and run, it doesn't take long to fill in the day. I'm now into a more intentional training plan. I've taken one from the internet and I've adjusted it to better suit the time that I have available. Last week was a big one, and I put in about 12 hours or so. That number will go up gradually until July. My goal is to add to this blog as interesting events happen and milestones get passed. Right now, my big concern is my swim. I swam all winter, but once I started to bump my time in the water up to an hour, I'm starting to react to the pool water with allergy-like symptoms. It's rather unpleasant and I'm working on trying to find a solution. I went back into the water yesterday for 15 minutes, and that seem to work OK. Tomorrow I'm planning on going in for a half hour and see what happens. I'll let you know. Thanks again for stopping by, and we'll talk soon.