my current irrational ironman finishing time

with the current straight development of my speed in running and swimming i have new irrational goals for the ironman in roth this year. and this will be the following.

swimming: 1:15h
bike: 5:15h
run: 3:30

Yes, very irrational. But where a will is ... ;)

checkpoint 5k

Again i made a very fast run around our quarter: 5km in 20min40sec
Describing my body feeling, i think it was 95% or even more of what i could manage - really very hard at the limit. And it was hard to motivate to go for a run at 9:30pm in the evening. But nevertheless very motivating because my 5k time at the 4th of january was 21:40.
YEAAAAAH! it's going on and on!

drained ...

Yesterday i made a 7km run around our quarter feeling very drained after 40minutes. I planned to go for a 1h run but i couldn't motivate.
hence today i only do 1h of swimming as my legs are very tired.

daily routine

as i mentioned that i've some kids to take care of, i put my daily 'work' here, so that one can have an expression of what i'm doing right now.

By the way, i'm in my leave. so i take care of our fourth sun (five months old) for six months while my wife is working from 9am to 8pm.

6:oo-7:3o get up, dress our three 'bigger' boys and let them drink a warm milk,
7:3o-8:3o dress our baby and clean the appartment a little bit and do the laundry,
8:3o-9:oo eat breakfast with my wife
9:oo-9:30 doing housework
9:30-11:30 when the baby is awake, i do some entertainment or when it's sleeping i go running/ biking with the baby in the pushchair
11:3o-14:oo i go with the bike 15minutes to the work of my wife for nursing the baby and after that having lunch together
14:oo-15:45 housework and/or baby entertainment
16:oo-17:3o driving to the kindergarden for our three big sons and after that going with all the kids back to the work of my wife for nursing the baby
17:3o-19:oo doing the evening meal for the kids
19:oo-20:3o reading books for every of the three bigger sons (wife comes back from work at 8pm)
2o:3o-21:oo housework
21:oo-22:oo couch-potatoe or running/biking
22:3o go to bed

...

that's it. it's really hard motivating after 9pm for training. sometimes i feel very drained. calculating it: it's nearly a >70h work week with all housework to do and some sport in between. and everybody having one or more children knows how tired one's feeling when all kids are in bed and how hard motivation for hard sport sessions is in the late evening.
But on the other side motivation comes very much directly from the existence of my nice little boys.

long and easy 2 1/2h run

On saturday i made a long run again. With easy speed i had ~24km behind me. It's really amazing: it was only the third time ever for me doing such a run longer than one hour without having any knee problems. i like that!

yes, running two hours is very boring but i've my mobile phone with me to hear "Der Schwarm" (Frank Schätzing), a bestseller book in germany some years ago. a real problem was the cold air and the wind on the open fields around my home town.

by the way, due to the fact that everything works very well i actually plan to reach a finish time of 10:oo to 11:oo hours. :)