Ironman - 201 days

I met a God Doctor last night. Julie from the tri team had reccommended him. She swims in my lane, and is a very strong runner. I have been complaining of pain in my right leg and butt cheek (sciatic nerve I am told) for about 2 months now. It hurts when I walk. Its almost unbearable when I run. The good news is I wasn't feeling the pain in the water or on the bike, but the pain made me less prone to want to run. And I feel it every step I take. Its been going on for a few months; I tried to get rid of it by deep tissue massages 3x. The made it a bit more bearable temporarily. So I told Julie about it and she told me about a chiropractor/physiotherapist that uses a technique called ART (Active Release Technique) that has had favorable results with long distance triathletes.
I went to see him and he FIXED me! I still feel a slight pull, but the pain is completely gone. I got very excited so I decided to turn in at 9h30pm last night and get a good's night sleep so that I could wake up at 5h30 get try to cycle for an hour and a half before the day started.
I failed.
The alarm did ring at 5h30, and I hit the snooze button until 6am. At 6am, I actually reset it for 6h30am.... the time where I get up and make breakfast for the kids since the school bus picks my daughter up at 6h55 every morning.
So when I got up at 6h30, I was a bit disappointed in myself. I missed the first work out I had set my mind to, despite preparing and organizing myself to make it happen.
However all was not lost. After my first three sips of coffee, a lightbulb went on in my head. My leg was no longer hurting, so why not drop off my son at daycare, and hop over to the gym next door to run a 5km before taking off to work? A quick look at my watch and my work calendar makes me realize that this could indeed work.
I flew to the daycare, then hit the treadmill. I started off slowly; I wanted to be sure my leg wasn't going to start hurting again. Slow for me is a 10km per hour pace. Its slow. I ran at that pace for the first 15 minutes, and then started doing intervals (run fast for a short distance, than slower for the same distance) for the next 15 minutes. I ran 3miles (5kms) in 29minutes and 09 seconds. Not bad!
I am not a morning work out person. I get my highest energy peak in the late afternoon. But running in the morning has the wonderful effect of getting me energized and on a happy high for the rest of the day. I got to work 20 minutes behind schedule, but with 10 minutes to spare before my first meeting. And I managed to get a small workout in during the morning, so I don't have to worry about running out of time as the night falls and I realize there was just too much to do with the kids and around the house to make a work out fit into the schedule.
Life is good right now. Work is not crazy busy. The kids are not going through any sort of crisis, and Laurent is not traveling this week. This almost seem manageable!