Back To Reality...

The first day back at work after vacation is always hard and relatively busy. I spent the early morning responding to emails & addressing a few pending items from last week. I spent the late morning to early afternoon in meetings. And I spent the rest of the day working on stuff for two major meetings tomorrow. Needless to say I was busy but my heart still wanted to be on vacation...

Now that I'm home my day is only half finished. Once I'm done with this post, I need to start the work I brought home with me. And then once the sun sets and it gets a little cooler outside, I need to do my daily run to keep my running streak alive. Both the blogging streak and the running streak take time away form other things (like resting) but that doesn't make me enjoy them any less. Even on vacation I set aside time to complete my blog posts...

And of course I ran every day while I was there. Not only did I run, but I had sub-10 runs every time!

The fact that today was a busy day probably sets the tone for what the rest of the week will look like. The next event on my race calendar is a triathlon relay, for which I will be swimming, so I need to be back in the pool this week...

I will need to do a 0.5 mile swim in 45 minutes... 

Which in theory sounds like a reasonable time, but I haven't done any swim training in over 5 months so I'm not feeling that great about the time frame right now. I"m going to do an 800m pool timed trial this week to see what my baseline time is. Then I'm going to spend the rest of the time working on improving my swim pace. I only have two weeks to get ready so I really don't have any time to waste...

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How was your Monday?

Do you find it hard to go back to work after vacation?

Have you ever done a triathlon or open water swimming event?