Back to Life, Back to a New Reality

Sooo... It's certainly been a while.
 I've decided to take over this blog again. (Not that all eight of you have been wondering where it went.) I changed the title a while back, so let me explain my motivation. The idea was to journal my training for the upcoming race I was preparing for: the 2010 Nautica Malibu Triathlon.

 Well that day has certainly come and gone. Preparing for that race I logged somewhere in the neighborhood of 8 miles swimming, 337 miles biking, and 308 miles running. All leading to a race distance consisting of a .9 mile (1.5k) swim, a 40k (24.8mi) ride and a 10k (6.2 mi) run back to back to back. (That's the same distance for the Olympics if you're scoring at home.) Going into race day, I set a goal of finishing in less than 3 1/2 hours. I completed that race in 3:01:14. [Official results here on p 12 of 39] Though I crushed my goal pace, if I was just a minute and fifteen seconds faster I would have clocked a sub 3-hour finish time for my first triathlon. It left a little something to be desired, with definite and tangible room for improvement. There's always next time, right?

 Fast forward to now, (I'll give you a moment to find the remote. Okay.) a year and five months later. I'm less than a month away from the 2012 Ironman California 70.3. My goal distance and target race event, which I have been working towards since February of 2009 when I began running.

Sooo... I'll be updating this page with photos, videos and words from along the way.
More soon. Promise!
-Zak
@zkgraff