My Next Big Thing - Rewind

So back before the Marathon, I posted about My Next Big Thing. I talked about training goals and objectives, short term goals and long term goals, and specifically about Wildflower 2006. I even committed right then and there to doing Wildflower, perhaps one of, if not the toughest half-ironman distance triathlon.

Then of course, immediately after the Marathon I was all hung up on Marathons. When am I going to do my next one, spring? where? the states? LA? London? ooo - so many choices! London seemed like a fantastic idea - scheduled for the end of April, I could take it easy all of November and kick back into training mode in December / January. By going through a touring company, I could get guaranteed race entry & hotel for a fairly reasonable amount.

The best laid plans, they say.....

Then I got a phone call from my mom. "I'm engaged!"

Huh? You're what? Oh boy.... And the topper of it all is that she's set the date for her wedding for May 6, in Williamsburg, Virginia.

That pretty much kills London at the end of April, and definitely kills Wildflower. Oh well.

So I do believe that everything happens for a reason - clearly I wasn't meant to do either a spring marathon or Wildflower. I mean, I could still do a spring marathon, but I think we're going to dial back the training a tad, for now.

Tentatively, I would like to start doing Tris this summer. There's an Olympic distance tri in Moses Lake at the begining of June which should be a great place to start. And of course, the Pacific Crest Tri - with both Olympic distance and Half-Ironman distance is in Sun River, OR at the end of June. Both of those seem like viable options.

In the meantime, I've got my short term goals. And adding one more: to see how close to 1000 miles I can get for year. As of right now, I'm at 796.6 : just a little over 200 to go, with 7+ weeks remaining. We shall see....