The week of August 18th

What a wonderful way to start the week. A tropical storm to become a Hurricane! Looks like running/swimming outside is going to be rather difficult on tues/wednesday.

Monday August 18th - Could have ran, could have swam, but the weather was so sketchy that I didnt do anything. Boo for me I know.

Tuesday August 19th - Rain Rain go away.....wait that actually worked??? It was raining and extremely windy when I got up...then it was nice and sunny during work hours but then it rained all through the night, SOoo today was slacker day # 2.

Wednesday August 20th - What an ugly day this morning - Hoping tonight is rain free.

Thursday August 21st - This is what i've delt with ALLLLLL day. Fay is a fat slowpoke. She has spent too much time in the central florida area and i'm sick of her. So 630am, get up look outside, yep its raining, sleep until 7, check again even more rain. So no morning run no morning swim for me. Head to work - hoping I can go outside tonight, nope, there's the doppler at 1030pm its still raining and we have wind gusts of 40-50mph. Lets HOPE shes gone tomorrow.

The Week of August 11th

Ok so Monday August 11th I was lucky enough to get a root canal. So monday and tuesday were a little rough for me but I still did something active because we are keeping the dog with us this entire week. So that means lots and lots of walk/runs for her.

So Monday August 11 - 2 mile walk (kady had a 2 mile run with Brett)
Tuesday August 12 - 2 mile walk (another 2 mile run with Brett)
Wednesday - 1 mile walk or was it 2?? I dont remember oops
Thursday - 1 mile run with Kady, 2 mile walk and a 600 yard swim that night.
Friday - 4 mile walk, 1 mile run. and at the time of this posting...might do another swim tonight - not sure yet but i'll update the results.

So overall it was a good week with 12 miles of running and walking and a decent swim. Kady killed it though with 16 miles. I highly recommend a doberman for a dog if you want to get in shape.

8-9-2008

Another 2 mile run around the lake today. The Hubs was with me. SO thankful for him pushing me though i'm so hardheaded and hate him when we run I love him so much afterwards. awwww right? LoL

Forgot to get a stop watch so not sure how fast today was but wow there were too many people out tonight. They were all over the place so a lot of weaving had to be done. BOO people who dont know how to walk one one side and who dont know to move out of you way when they see you running.

And Yeah speaking of BOO moments - guy walking his pitbull who obviously doesnt like people because we come running by him and his dog (like face to face, not coming up behind him) and the dog lunges at us barking. Talk about scary!!

8-3-2008

2 Mile Run! Yippeeee. Now I have ran a 5K, and just recently ran 2.75 miles in my last triathlon so there shouldnt be some huge celebration with running 2 miles right? Wrong....

I hate running. I hate running long distances with a passion. My Husband loves to run, he was training for a marathon and was up into the 22-23 mile range before his body couldnt take it any longer. So running with him isnt the easiest of things because he has a bigger stride thus a quicker pace than slow poke me.

OK so anyways today 3pm Brett says lets go run. Deep down inside I dont want to go, but I say yes. We go to Lake Eola and find a new starting point (i'm so mental with where the start/end points are) so we take off running with Brett leading and I follow. It is HOT! Dang its hot outside, but I complete 1 mile and feel great. We keep going 1.5 miles yayay! 1.75 miles my calves are killing me but I push through it and finish! I think tomorrow will be a swim day.

8-2-2008

I am horrible at updating this. sorry

so ran the other night with the hubbs 1.5 miles. I hate running outside, the treadmill is so much easier. But its good to have someone to run with and Brett is right - its better to run outside than inside on a treadmill.

Ok so yesterday was a 14 mile ride. I <3 my bike. My coworker and I went up the street to a neighborhood and did a new course ride. It was SO hard because this neighborhood has hills so the whole climbing thing was killing my legs. But as my coworker said after a few more times I'll gain more strength and wont notice the hills.

During the ride i was talking to him about how to improve my time for the next tri. Which according to my daily mile count down is oh 41 days! eeek. So he said i should look into bike ride group on weekends so i'll start that search today. :)

7-19-2008

Triathlon Day!!!!

Ok yes I suck at updating but there's always 2nd,3rd and 4th chances in life right?

Ok so My First Triathlon day came and went and WOW so much fun. The adreneline rush you get is amazing. This was such a great experience as this event was also titled My First Triathlon and there were a Ton of us 1st timers who were standing around with our pink or orange swim caps on scared to death.

So the event today was a 1/4 mile swim, 12.4 mile bike, and a 2.75 mile run.

I finished it in 1 hour 45 mins and 47 seconds.

Out of my age group I finished 6th. Some people view this as good some as bad.

I went into the day with the mindsent of I'm finishing this event. I'm not going to be # 1, I'm not going for the fastest time in 1 event. I want to complete and learn and have fun. Which is what I did.

My swim time was 14:37
My bike time was 49:15
My run time was 35:26

Great numbers for a starting point.

So I'm signing up for another triathlon in September. I'm starting to swim more, run more and bike more to decrease those times. But I need to learn how to transition a little quicker too (Like buy a race belt rather than having to pin my number on my shirt after the swim).

So in addition to bettering my time i'm going to try to be better at updating this blog :)

5-13-2008

Today is the swim - Whenever I think of swimming I think of the Freestylin song but I dont know the artist or the actual song name.

Today's schedule says 10X50 (30") which means:
swim 10, 50 yard laps (usually down and back in a 25 yard pool) and rest 30 seconds inbetween.

I love swimming but oh my gosh it has been since Highschool swim team days since i've really "swam" and it feels good - well actually sore right now - but I forgot how much I've missed the pool. I cant wait to get my stamina back. OH and another thing - the pool here is FREEZING! I hate when you get one foot in the pool and you get goosebumps because the water is that cold. I really hope the water temp warms up within the next week.