so....here it is....

I can't do an Ironman.

Before you comment with "Of course you can! Anyone can!" I don't mean I can't as in physically I can't, because OF COURSE I could do that....but with the training behind it.

This is the issue. The time to train for something like that. I don't have enough. Not with my kids little (ages 5 and 2). I want to spend time with them and they need me and it just does not make sense right now. Oprah has the best advice and I tell it to myself every...single...day...You can have it all, you just cannot have it all at the same time.

I have officially put my Ironman goal on a bit of a hold. I was going to enter Ironman Arizona with the attitude of "We will see how the training goes." Not good enough. I know myself and I know I would want to make sure I had the very best day out there possible. This means hours and hours of training. This is just not the time or the year for that. Last summer, training for the half ironman was about perfect. So my focus for the next while will be shorter tris and the half ironman I have entered in Calgary in August.

And Julie: Thanks for your last comment!! What is my bathing suit going to look like....that made me giggle today when a giggle was definitely needed!!!