New Job and time to get moving!

Well I have finally figured out my new job. I am taking a position at AmerisourceBergen where I will be managing the Data Services area (ETL, Data Integration and Business Intelligence). This is a job that I am a good fit for and I am excited to get going. It was a tough decision as I had 3 offers that I had to decided between. They were all pretty good offers, but I feel I made a great choice in the end. AmerisourceBergen is a pretty large company and the IT group there is very well organized and Managed.
My training has taken a hit though with all of the job search stuff. I have so busy with it and the other family obligations that I haven't been able to stick to a good schedule. But I have been getting in some good workouts. I hit the track the other night for a very neat late night track workout. I love running track workouts at night, it feels like you are running faster when it is dark out. I started about 9:30 or so and did a 90 minute workout. It was warm, but the humidity was low. I didn't eat well beforehand, so expected this might be a tough one. But I was able to hammer out 4x1600 with 400 fast job (2:30-3:00 minutes) in between. I was hoping to do about 6:05-6:10 pace (~10 mile pace). But after hitting the first one in 5:57 there was no way I was going back over 6 minute pace. The last one was hammered in 5:49! This was cool, especially as it was my first real track workout of the year. I usually pick up about 10 seconds after the first month on workouts like this. So in one month I will try this again and go for 5:50's.
Biking has been going okay. I did a 100 miler today and had my first real bonk. It sucked as I was 25 miles from home when it happened. I know why it happened too. I ate horribly yesterday and did not carbo loading at all (hotdog, 2 hamburgers and some steak...oh yeah and a couple of beers). It was the holidays and I paid for it. I really need to get back on the wagon with my eating.
I have my first race this weekend...Black Bear 1/2 Ironman. I'm treating this as a B or C priority race. This is a cutback week for me (although I did do 100 miles today), so I will just take it a little easy and hit the race as hard as I can. I don't have any real expectations about the race, although I would love to run ~7's and ride ~220W. For the swim I just want to get through it, although I should be able to do ~1:30 pace.

Dave

Catching Up!

Okay, just a short post to let you know that I am still around. As a consultant, from time to time I get the chance to "ride the bench", which is just a way of saying my contract/project is done and I need to find another one. Even though you would think this gives me more time to train, it hasn't been the case. After a great weekend 2 weekends ago, I came down with another head cold. I'm sure I just pushed a little too hard. Saturday was a 5:27 bike ride followed by a 45 minute run. Oh yeah, the bike ride had 2285 ft of climbing per lap...I did 3! That is over 6800 ft of climbing. There was a climb near the end of the loop that was over 2 miles long and steep. But I did it and although I was wiped out, my nutrition was still pretty good. Sunday we did 2 hours on the bike and then I did a 10 mile run. This workout was done on the Black Bear 1/2 Ironman course, which I am doing in a couple of weeks.
Well hopefully I can post more later...Have to get to bed.

Dave