Woke up with the head still throbing. Took some Advil and slept another 2hours (until 9 am) and it's mostly better. I'm pretty sure it was caused by eye strain. I need to get a new pair of glasses. Supposed to spin on the rollers tonight. We'll see how I feel.

OK, I'm coming out of denial with my shoulder injury. Here is the history: About 1 month before my first ever race, I hurt my left shoulder after a PR long swim. I took a week off and when it didn't get completely better, I just faught through it. Then, I signed up for a second race 1 month later. Some days it hurt bad and some days it felt like it was getting stronger. After this race, I didn't swim from October until March thinking it *had* to get better. Well, I still had some minor pain during certain motions, so I went to the doctor. That day, I didn't really have any pain and the Dr. told me that it was probably my rotator cuff and that I should start swimming again and go back if it gets worse. So I did and while I still couldn't hang from the monkey bars with my left arm, it did get much better. Fast forward to last weekend. I helped for a few hours to build a deck. Mainly, I dug a few holes for a fence post with a post hole digger and some other misc stuff. It is really alot of work to dig a hole in TX ground after a summer of drought. Needless to say, I was sore, moreso in the left shoulder. I wrote it off as muscle soreness as it wasn't where I had the pain the previous year and I didn't have any accute pain. I swam on Tue & Thu more or less pain free, but during the day on Friday, I had a continuously growing pain in my left shoulder. This time the pain is when I raise my arm forward (as opposed to the side which made it hurt last time). I have quit using turn signals when driving as that is the position that gives the most pain. Also, there is all kinds of grinding and crunching when I slowly windmill with my left arm. So, I'm probably not going to swim at all until TX Man and who know what I'll do after that, but it is probably my last Tri of the year (no Stonebridge for sure and I may end the season with the RunBi part of the RunBiTri in Kellar).

How to become an Asics wear-tester: Send an email to: weartest@asicsamerica.com Use Brice Newton as your reference. I'm not sure how they select people or if I will even receive any shoes to test, but they did respond promptly with some forms for me to fill out and return to them to be put into their database.

[blue] Freakin' smoke detector kept going off last night. It took me a while to figure out which one it was as it would only alarm for about 10 secs and anywhere between 30 min and 1hour between alarms. Once I found it, I ripped it off the ceiling. I guess I'll go to Home Depot this weekend and replace it. I'm exhausted, but will go for a swim at Lake Grapevine and then back to work to teach a course at 9:30pm. [/blue]

[blue] One year ago, my first commute of my responsible (post college) life. My commute was: 56:34 13.78 miles 14.60 mph AveHR: 173 MaxHR: 188 Todays commute was: 1:00:55 16.62 miels 16.4 mph AveHR: 148 MaxHr: 171 I'll add that my route of my first commut was a much more direct route and did not weave in and out of neighborhoods like I do today. What a difference a year makes.[/blue]