PUT A FORK IN ME

cuz I'M.DONE.

as you may have noticed, today marks the end of triple digits on the Polar countdown watch. i'm down to 99 DAYS PEOPLE!!! yep, this is the month that i feared. work has now picked up to full speed ahead for '08 right along with the month that COACH said we'd be turning up the volume on training. the last two days have been full 10 hour shoot days not including the ridiculous amount of time spent in my car commuting to and from said shoots, so i guess you can tack on an extra 3 hours each day for that nonsense. that's where i gotta say, L.A. straight up sucks ass. where else does it take a friggin' hour and a half to go 15 miles? i can get there quicker on my bike!!!

yesterday was spent lugging equipment up and down stairs (which was just wonderful for the shoulder injury), so i didn't feel so bad about missing my golf swim or the 7 mile endurance run. not that i'm ok with missing any training, but after the physical day i had with work, it more than made up for it. it's TIT FOR TAT TRAINING i suppose. i feel worse if i miss a bike day, since that's the weakest of my 3 events. luckily, today's call time wasn't until 10:30 this morning. PERFECT!! i could get up at 5:45, hop on the trainer and ride for 2 hours, then go help with picking up props and be to the studio in plenty of time. all i had to do tonight was my weights session on my way home, so i had my gym bag packed and ready in the back of my ride. yeah, that all sounds like a solid plan 'til you realize that a 10:30am call time means an 8:30pm wrap out if you're lucky. and we weren't lucky. the talent was only 16 years old, so the on-set tutor kept imposing these half hour study breaks to make our day even longer. standing all day in my socks on a concrete soundstage didn't help my calves either. so i bagged the weights session, and now i'm home trying to get a little relief stretch in, then get to bed and get 8 hours before i head out for my 65 mile bike/ 10 mile run brick that's on the schedule for tomorrow. i'd gladly just switch out the brick to sunday and get my long swim done tomorrow instead, but i've got to catch a plane sunday for a week of shooting in S.F. it's gonna be like this pretty much through to the middle of March, so no time to feel sorry for myself. as Greyhound would put it, it's time to HTFU and GET IT DONE!!!

oh, and i'm gassy these days. what's that all about???