It's amazing how fast time goes by, It's mid March and it feels like yesterday when we were celebrating New Year. A lot of things have happened since the year started and I'm amazed and happy.

I'm surprised how things have gone so far this year, and a small change of attitude have made a huge difference.

I have been preparing my first big event of the year, the 70.3 Ironman Texas. It will be next weekend, April 2, at Galveston, Texas. And boy it's been a really long journey, but, I don't know, I complain a lot about the training but somehow I have enjoyed most of it.

This triathlon consist on swimming 1.2 miles, ride your bike for 56 miles and run 13.1 miles or half marathon. It's a tough competition, but I like it, it will be my 3rd one. And it really takes a lot of time to train, but as I said before, I have enjoyed most of it.

As you can see, its a really long distance to cover, so there is a lot of training to do. I had to manage to organize my self because doing triathlon it's not my job, I had a normal job from 9-5 and need to organize my self to ride, run and swim.

The first 2-3 weeks of the training plan were not a major problem, they were easy, besides I was preparing for a smaller distance triathlon to qualify to the ITU World Championship (I didn't qualify but I was so close). From February until now, that was the interesting part. I had a lot of training hours on the weekdays and I need to squeeze them some how on my daily routine. So I started waking at 3 am so I can start training at 4 until 8 am, so that meant going to bed at 8/9 pm. On the weekends I had longer training sessions, but I didn't mind because I didn't need to get anywhere early, but still, needed to rest and sleep early.

It's really hard to wake up very early, and go out to ride your bike specially alone, but I learned to enjoy it. Since I go into the kitchen for breakfast and coffee, I enjoy sitting on the counter in silence and enjoy it along the company of my dog that is just watching me (and waiting for me to give him peanut butter). Later on the road, just thinking about everything and nothing, but it feel so peaceful, and I feel like the world is just watching me do it.

It's been quite a journey, it had it's ups and down, and I don't regret nothing, now the final countdown it's near, 11 day to go, 11 days to be on the start line and hear "athletes on your marks..... go!"

I'm really looking forward to it, to see how much effort and sacrifice pays off, since I have to put a side a lot of social life, being the family, just focusing on training, sleeping well, eating well.

If you are interested on knowing how i'm doing go to http://eu.ironman.com/triathlon/eve...../axzz4c4W42jSq or http://eu.ironman.com/#axzz4c4W42jSq and look for the live coverage section and look for bib 1361, (Andrés Molina) that is me, and see how I'm doing. The event starts at 7:25 central time.

And as always this goes for you guys, who always cheer me up, I will be thinking of you while I'm fighting to achieve finishing it under 5 hours. And if there is any Fur around the area I would love to meet him/her and if they can make it to event and cheer it would be the best!