Train to Train

My writing suddenly stopped when I got a call that my Dad had a car accident caused by a heart attack. I spent the next week at the hospital with my family while he went through heart failure again and surgery. It was a long, hard, emotional week but my dad made it and is now back home starting to recover. I'm back in NY starting to train. To take my mind off things I have thrown myself into training. Knowing heart disease runs in our family, i'm realizing that getting myself into shape now is smart. I had heard that we were to train 6 days a week and rest one. Only after that first week I read the advice from the coaches a little closer and realized that they said to train to train. Meaning start with 4 days until you build up to 6. Oops. No wonder why I was so exhausted that first week. Running in the Park with the team was great. I loved seeing the entire group stretch afterwards. 350 people doing the plank in a circle is quite a sight. Swimming Wednesday night was quite an adventure. I attended the intermediate session. It was harder than I had planned for but I know I worked harder with the group than I would on my own. I'm starting to get into the swing of things and I'm looking forward to the run tomorrow night. I still don't know how I'm going to do this. 19 Weeks to go.