I would try and stick more closely to the regular routine...12 hrs is quite a sleep-a-thon. I tend to find that if I sleep too long I am sluggish for a while the next day...definately not a good thing for a triathlon.

Don't worry too much about it...the last couple weeks leading up aren't as important as the training you got in beforehand. Just relax and rest when you can this week, then enjoy the race on Sunday. GL

If you can sleep in on Saturday morning that would probably help.
Then take it easy on Saturday, and maybe take a nap.
Go to bed early on Saturday night so you might be able to get 7-8 hours of sleep.

Bed of luck on Sunday!! ;-)

just quit your job. :) We all have that kind of money right? no? oh yeah..

yeah - she said i noticed you've been taking breaks to run at lunchtime. uh - not really a "break" if i am always eating at my desk and working through lunch.

student loans... otherwise i'd be running a surf shop and burrito stand.

I'm 38 and I still have a couple of grand left outstanding on my grad school loans...

jebus... at 200k I'm never going to be free!

well I quit my unsatisfying job. Now I flutter between yoga, training ets. Love it.
PS Just paid my loans off last year(I am 39). Kept it straggeling it along because there was no benefit the last 5 years to pay it off since the interest was paid.

was it worth it? depends on what you want to do. being a surf bum sounds nice, so does not being trapped in an office. but, in my view, life is about making things happen, and unless you are really creative, that usually requires a serious degree. so loans may be essential and in that sense worth it. some time down the road, i suspect there will be other things to do and more fun to be had.

i don't worry too much about it. my view of student loans is they they mediate your financial life over a 50ish year period. they allowed me to go to school without working a lot, live in a fairly nice apartment, and not have to drink cheap beer. now that i am out of school, it is like having a second mortgage, but it is not so much money that i can't still live a decent life, still drink good beer, and make some investments for the future.

but it is true, i have very little new tri gear.

Well I dont know. I have only a BA and do quite nicely when I work...Hubby has an AA and does WAY nicely. Depens on what you want to do. I only had 15k to begin with and he had nothing. I think I would have a heart attack with 200k---more than my mortgage (although we put that much down so really it would be more for most people.)

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I go to a cal state and my tuition is low enough that I don't have student loans (yay to me!) Yeah so what I have to work a lot (work an school eats up 12 hours a day) and training takes up the rest of my time (im doing like 8-10 hour weeks), but once i graduate, not having to pay off loans is so worth it.

i always sleep like crap before a race..hehe.

both ironmans i did i slept about 3 hours, was just too excited. When the race started never made a difference. Its just too much fun and hurt too damn much to think of sleep.
u will do fine

My wife finally finished up her third degree and her student loans are kicking in, and yeah, they suck, but dual income is great :). I was lucky enough to have the Army fork the bill for my undergrad so I'm student loan free and hopefully in a few years will have a chance to go to grad school on the Army's dime. So if student loans are getting you down, join the service!

Came back from Baton Rouge last Friday, I have a flight on Monday morning into Killeen, TX to go down to the FEMA Joint Field Office in Austin, TX. FEMA will make the call this weekend on whether or not they need a rep from NORTHCOM (me) down there. I'm hoping for the best but planning for the worst.

Good luck to you in Houston, hopefully TX just gets really wet and no permanent damage is done. I can say that the TX National Guard and NORTHCOM (I'm sure FEMA too) are more than prepared for any response needed along the coast and in Houston. Good luck to you and your family.