Well this week is my almost birthday week, I turn 38 years old a week from today on Monday. So woot woot to that as I am now only two full years away from getting 5 more minutes added to my BQ time and believe me I need every minute I can get. But I digress as I need to live in the present, and what is at hand is the B-Fit B-Day Challenge. That's right, I sort of signed on to take on this little challenge and of course I signed on to do it at the gold level which means doing all three events in a 24 hour period.

But as I started to lay out my week I realized that this is the week I need to complete the challenge so I surfed over to the website for a look see. You see in my very regimented way of thinking I always that of the gold challenge as doing it all in one day. But it's not really that way, you see it says 24 hour period and when I noticed others breaking it up with one transition being a good nights sleep, well that is just to good to pass up.

For those of you not familiar with the challenge it is basically as follows. Swim the number of miles in the first digit of your birthday age, Bike your age and run the second number and if your birthday is a zero birthday the run is 10 miles. So being 38 means I Swim 3 miles, Bike 38 Miles and run 8 Miles to complete the challenge So as I planned my week I have the following set for Friday & Saturday.

• Friday late afternoon bike 38 miles before my daughters Soccer game. (Garmin)
• Saturday morning Run Club, run the 8 mile loop. (Garmin)
• Saturday after run club swim 3 miles or 4,800 yards or 96 touches of the start wall. (Watch, 48 100 yard laps)

For the record I am not going to do any of this hard. These will all be just long endurance paced workouts. I am hoping to have this all in the books by Saturday noon. We have a big suprise party for a friends 40th on Saturday night so I am sure that night of debauchery will lead to a less then perfect state of physical well being on Sunday morning. But hopefully I can still get out for a nice longish recovery ride on Sunday sometime.

Beyond all of this I have a 10 hour week planned after getting in only 8 last week. Mothers day is mothers day meaning there was no time for self indulgence or personal agenda. All mom all the time was our motto for the day. On a side note I was tipping the scales at a consistent 169ish last week. This is new for me as I generally don't dip below 170, not really sure what is going on, but I am not complaining. This however means my goal of racing this season under 170 just might happen. Some of my other goals seem a long way off right now, but we can revisit that later.

Anyway have a great week everyone, I will update you on the B-Fit B-Day thing once I complete it.