LESS THAN 60 DAYS!!!

1 Month, 28 days and 7 hours and 31 minutes until IRONMAN Louisville, as I am typing this but who is counting?? I can't believe the race is less than 60 days away!! Time sure is flying by when your training! :-) The last two weeks has ups and downs with training. I am still getting adjusted to my work schedule, but now that it is Less Than 60 Days, I need to get focused more! A LOT MORE!

I didn't get my long ride in on Father's Day but had a great day with Nickole and the Kids! They got me a pretty cool Medal Hanger for all of my race metals! I am anxious to get it hung up in the living room! ;-) hehehe

Last weekend was spent hanging out with friends at the Dave Matthews Concerts. Friday was a great show unfortunately I jammed my right big toe pretty bad. I decided to follow Shane up the back of the lawn after the show...not a good idea! I jammed it on the way down wearing my flip flops. Saturday it was black and blue and I decided that I would not run on it for a week...it hurt that bad! Saturday night Nickole came to the show even know she asked at 9:10p when Dave was coming on stage...he came on stage at 8:20! Needless to say she is not a DMB fan! I was happy to chat with my Fraternity Bro Dondo on Sat as he is a HUGE Dave as well!

This past weekend has been busy as well. I got a quick ride on Monday along with a swim and it was Olivia's 13th birthday! I can't believe she is a teenager now! Evan, Anniston and I surprised her by going to Lawrenceburg for the night while Nickole was at the New Kids on the Block concert in Louisville.

On Tuesday I woke up early and rode the Dearborn County Bourbon Trail from Lawrenceburg to Aurora. The trail is pretty nice! It was cool to ride my bike in Greendale, Lawrenceburg and Aurora, something I haven't done in a long, long time! I got to reflect on some memories growing up and see how things are changing around town. I rewarded myself after my ride with a Super Big Boy and Vanilla Coke from Frisch's!! That is one restaurant that I wish was closer, although not the healthiest, it was good! We went to the renovated Greendale Pool after lunch. Evan had a blast! He said he wanted to go off the diving board, so I said, let's go for it! He walked down to the end, then waited for me to get in and "catch" him and he jumped right in!! The board isn't that low! It is probably 4 feet to the water! He probably jumped off the board 10 times in 2 hours!

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Wednesday June 26th will be a day I remember forever in my police career. We had been working with the FBI on a possible bank robbery in Fishers and on Wednesday it happened on my shift! This was my first big event, no my first HUGE event as Sgt.!!! We had a teller taken hostage, a foot pursuit, a barricaded suspect and three guns found. We were assisted by several surrounding agencies including the FBI. No one got hurt and 5 suspects were taken into custody. Needless to say, I was pooped after a long day and no workouts.

Today I did my longest open water swim! I was really anxious to get 2.4 miles in! The swim course is a 1.2 mile loop in Morse. There were storms to the north of the reservoir and the wind was pretty strong, I mean really strong! The first 1.2 miles were brutal! It took me almost 4 minutes longer than last week and I swallowed quite a bit of water. There were decent waves rolling in. After a 8 minute or so break while treading water, we started the second the loop. The wind was still strong but nothing like it was the first 1.2 miles. I was happy to get the 2.4 miles done in 1 hour 26 minutes. I had wait on a couple of boats to pass and they may have delayed a minute or two on my time. I REALLY wanted to do this as a confidence booster to know that I will be able to swim 2.4 miles and be good in Louisville. As bad as the conditions were tonight, I felt even more confident! LESS THAN 60 DAYS TO GO!!!

Morse Reservoir