STRESS!!!!!!

I have less than a week before I take 3 exams, all of which will determine if I get my Master's degree or not. I have been studying on and off for about 2 - 3 weeks now, and I'm starting to really get worried. I sat down for 2+ hours of studying last night and realized how much material that I need to know for next week. I have 2 exams next Thursday and 1 next Friday. Me and 2 - 3 of the other graduate students are having a "study party" tomorrow night and hopefully that will help me.

This week has been awesome but tough. I did the 2,000 yard swim test on Monday which didn't go as well as I wanted. I took it out in the pace that I wanted, but I blew up miserably with about 600 to go. I went through the 1st 1,000 yards in 11:30, and then came back in 11:55, ha. I just didn't feel great that day. I know I can do a lot better than that. I have had some great workouts in the pool lately so I might give it another shot pretty soon. Tuesday night was my bike test. I hopped on the Computrainer over at Beth's house and she told me what all she was going to do. Beth and Casey administered the test, and I have reason to believe they both enjoyed watching me suffer, ha. Beth especially since she got to poke me with needles. I ended up riding almost an hour on the computrainer which included 10 minutes warmup, and a 5 minute cooldown. We found that my Lactate threshold is somewhere in the 300 - 325 range and that I should focus on Ironman events according to Beth (which is not what I wanted to hear). My highest reading was 4.8 (which is very low). My first few readings weren't even above 1.

And I have ridden outside for the past 2 days straight. The last time I did that was before Clearwater, which was either early November, or late October. I got a 2.5 hr ride outside on Wednesday, and just an easy 30 miles yesterday. Yesterday's ride was pretty windy, but I rode with 4 of my buddies, so we shared the workload. It wouldn't have been a fun ride by myself.
I'm headed to Louisville this afternoon to stay with my aunt, Francie, and then running a 5k tomorrow morning. We'll see how it goes. I have been doing all long and slow stuff so this 5k is going to HURT.

T-Bird