Movember Mo-over

So another Movember has come and gone.  My company raised $1850 for the cause and the mustache review was a blast.  The best part, I now have the most bad assitasious picture of me ever.   I love that picture, I'm 5'7", weigh 160 pounds after eating a full pumpkin pie and am generally on the geeky side, but in that pic I look borderline intimidating.  I had to find a way to immortalize that shot, so I ordered a new PADI diving card and made that look my new profile picture.  I tried to talk Katie into getting it inked as a portrait tattoo, but she passed.  I even offered to pay for it as part of her Christmas gift!  I guess the boundary of love stops just shy of tough-guy tattoo of your boyfriend on your thigh.

I'm in Dallas this week so no riding.  Which is kind of a bummer as I've been crushing my bike work-outs lately.  In other news, I've been really struggling on my runs.  I'm hoping that its because I'm doing hard PowerTap classes again on Tuesday and Thursday which is maybe killing my legs for the quality run work-outs.  When I ran yesterday instead of PowerTap, it was a solid run, so there's some evidence that that's what's happening.  It's just a little discouraging because the run is my strong discipline, and I'm afraid that if I lose leg speed, then my goal of qualifying for the Duathlon Worlds in Scotland takes a hit.  Long time readers (Hi Mas!) know that my strategy is to gain time on the first run, hold on for dear life but lose time on the bike, then try to make it back up on the final run.  Maybe getting better on the bike takes some away from the run, which evens out the three legs making for a better race.  OK, sure, that sounds great on paper, but psychologically, I'm not sure I can handle that.  I'm old and change scares me.