I learned an important lesson today...

...Regardless of how tired I am, if a crappy song comes on the radio at 5 am, change the station at all cost.

I did not follow this bit of wisdom this morning, and the result was riding for three hours with "I'll Go Wherever You May Go" By The Calling stuck in my head. It was more torturous than the gusting 25-30 mile per hour winds gusting across the lake. Nevertheless, I survived another 3-hour morning ride.

After work I hit the pool for my wednesday distance swim. The plan was to knock out two miles. I was really struggling with motivation first mile or so. I tried breaking up the laps into shorter sets, but I was having to force myself to stay in the pool. I had 3/4 of a mile left and set out to do it in three-1/4 sets, but when I hit my eighth lap, I decided to keep going to make the next set shorter. Somewhere around lap 14 I got into a groove and knocked out the entire 3/4 of a mile. And I kept going. I went ahead and did another 1/4 mile to even it out at a continuous mile. In the end, I swam 2.25 miles. Granted, I didn't break any speed records, but this was one of those swims that helps with the confidence. It ended up being the best swim workout I've have in this Ironman training period.

Today was a solid day of training, despite it starting with a terrible song and gusting winds.