Day 1 Complete- Surprise Surprise that it didn't look like I expected

It's 8pm.

But it feels like midnight. You know it has been a good day when you could have gone to bed at 6 and been happy with the day.
Recap:
The NorthShore Hostel is great- awesome people, clean location, no A/C but lots of fans.

Run
I need to start looking at elevation climbs before I head out the door. 15km round trip with the first 7.5 km being a constant uphill slog (approx. 600m elevation gain). I'Ao state park is beautiful. Although, I did look out of place when I ran up in my short shorts, fuel belt and tri top, and the horizontally grand tourists rolled out of their tour buses.
The run was good, but hot- I'm so glad I brought lots of fuel that I designed at Infinit Nutrition; yes that was a plug for Infinit. The electrolytes were needed as I was drenched by the end.
HR stayed high for most of the run. I'm going to say this is likely due to the heat as there was almost no variation in HR between 4:45 & 6 minute pace.
I'm glad to say I'm feeling stronger every day on the run- A bit nervous for this 5 minute mile still- when I get home I need to do an attempt and see where I'm at.

Core work:
2 x Ab ripper X Tony Horton runs a tight ship. I'm just sayin'

Swimming:
Did you know all public pools in Maui are free? All you do is walk on deck, sign in on a piece of paper and take a shower
And there is one about 1.5 miles from the NorthShore Maui Hostel?
Ok, onto the workout.
Sunscreen doesn't stay on when you are always sweating or in the water- I wouldn't say I'm burnt, but am feeling quite warm tonight.
Swim was very fresh- 4500 yards. 1000 w/u, 10 x 200 pull fast arm turnover, 1&5 scull/swim, desc 2-4 & 6-10. These were faster than I thought (1:55 for the last set)
1500 kick and then I crashed. I mean cramping everywhere.

Came home, stretched, attempted a nap, ate more bananas and chocolate milk than I've had in a while.
Dinner was rice & broccoli with plenty of soya sauce and mahi-mahi. Tapioca pudding and raisins for dessert (loving the carbs right now).

I'm spent, wishing I had a cold Corona, an ice bath, a personal masseuse and more than 6 hours till my Monday morning conference call.
A 6am PST Monday morning conference call is a 3am Hawaii middle of the night call.
Night everyone.

Haleakala tomorrow morning- bring on the fire.

Waters Wellness 1st Maui tri-camp will be happening in the next year. Hopefully Scotland's great Mike Adams will be with me to run it.

If you're still not doing what you want to do, how come?

"You've got one life to live. And if you do it right, that's all you'll need"

To your success,

Pw.

Here I am- Maui.
Time to get to business- the last few days have been long- more or less by choice but still long. I'm working on four projects right now that take up more time than I expect; my fun job Waters Wellness Consulting, my steady paycheck Usana, my passionate job with Seminar Systems/Blackbelt In Relationship and my book (more details of the book in a future post). I get fired up on all of these projects, but that right now is leading to late nights on the computer and early mornings.
Surprisingly my training has not suffered- I'm running 6x/wk, swimming 4x and starting to spin on the bike; it's still too cold for a wimp like me to ride in Canada outside.
Which brings me to Maui- a solid 8 day training camp.
My flight over was uneventful, watched "The Hurt Locker" and "Up In the Air" and did a bit of work. I was offered two seats to myself if I would give up my center aisle seat to a mother with two children. I immediately said yes and enjoyed the ohh so comfy, but definitely not needed leg room.

Arrived at 7pm Hawaii time (10 pm PST), got on my shuttle to the hostel I am staying and was in bed by 9:30. I'm staying at the NorthShore Hostel for the next two days- If you're wanting to come here on a budget, their 20$/night dorm rooms will fit your budget. The place is clean, staff is friendly, is quiet at night, and is centrally located to use all the services you need. Based on my short stay, I highly recommend it.

Training plan for today:

Steady run around I'Ao Valley State Park















Swim- 4km mid afternoon swim- some threshold work

Bike- Smooth ride to prepare my legs for tomorrow, I'm going to ride to see the some of the best tow-in surfing- Jaws. There's a high surf warning today which could mean the best conditions for the spot- hopefully I'll get to see some of the worlds best go take a shot at it.
The other theme for today- carbo load!
Tomorrow morning I'm setting out to ride the 36 miles and 10,023 ft. of climbing to the summit of Haleakala.

Time to get off this computer and into training.

Here's my question of the day, If you're not doing today what you want to be doing, why not?
Do what you love to do- no excuses!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhqZ0RU95d4#t=0m40s

Patrick