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Well it’s my second to last night in Colorado Springs for a few months and a bittersweet time.  I brought Steph to the airport this morning – she’s off to Greece for three weeks – and came home to the large pile of packing still to do.  Ugh.

So here’s what’s going on in the meantime: I’m going to Boston to visit my family on Thursday.  This weekend is my old church’s 25th annual retreat, and my 25th time attending.  Not that I’m the posterchild for maintaining your roots, but for whatever reason there are some things in life that I don’t feel like giving up even for a little while.  Also I get all nostalgic and weepy when Steph is not around.  She has been gone for eleven hours now, hmm, yes, check back with me in a week or two.

The other thing that I’m doing this weekend is testing my fitness at two races.  Then I’ll have two weeks to chill out in Boston, visiting my family and training a lot, before I deliver myself for a summary ass-kicking very competitive race in Maryland.

Then back to Colorado.  Steph and I will be in Boulder all summer, and I will be staying through the fall to do my buildup for Ironman Florida.  I planned to race there in ‘05 and ‘06 as well, but circumstances prevented me from actually doing it.  So this year I’m Making The Commitment, so to speak, and I’m going to hole up in boulder all through the fall and train like a madman.  Which is probably exactly what I will be.

This whole plan just begs for a little elaboration … which I will maybe get to, after I pack 500 more boxes.