Why not me?

2 years ago, my brother-in-law ( Tech-Tri ) convienced my husband to run a marathon. It was so amazing watching him train and finish. I thought, I can do that too.. But wait? there is not one athletic bone in my body. I'm over wieght.. there is no way I can do that. My husband encouraged me, and I signed up to join a running group. (run/walk). best thing I ever did. Ran my first 5k July of 2009. Well this year again, My brother-in-law (love him!) conviences by husband to do triathlon. So I figured what the heck if he can do it..

Then why not me.!

So this is all about my adventures in training for my first sprint Triathlon. I picked the Women's Triathlon.


Friday, August 13, 2010

Happy Birthday to ME..!

Well.. it was actually yesterday, August 12. We celebrated it on Wednesday due to I had a group swim scheduled for Thursday evening. My Husband took me to Mohegan Sun Casinos, played the slot machines, everything else scares me..as I hate to lose, at one point I was up $50, but then lost again, I did leave plus $20 so not bad..! The we went to a near by winery, had a few wine tastings.. well maybe too much, haha had lunch and some gelato, it was a beautiful day to spend outside. After the wine and food, we went for a walk thru the vineyard. That evening him and the girls took me out to dinner.. again ate to much, stayed away from the wine this time, as I think I had way to many at lunch.


Thursday - Birthday..
Went shopping during the day, as my husband said I can go spend some money..Yeah, you don't have to tell me twice. We meet up with my twin sister and had lunch with her, I gave her a card and a gift certificate to get a pedicure and manicure.. Got back at around 4p, which my husband was kind of upset, as he wanted to be home earlier as he was waiting a package from Fedex, well we missed him.. :-( Got changed and off we went to my group swim.


I am still not feeling very comfortable with my swim. I tend to panic when there are others close to me swimming and I stop. Felt out of breath most of the time. By the end I felt a little better, I guess I just need to make sure I warm up prior to the race and relax. There is a mini tri next tuesday, our group is going to go, but we are not going to do the Bike part, as the bike is off road, so you need a mountain bike, and some of them do not have one, and why kill yourself anyways, so we are just going to do the 1/4 mile swim and the 5k run. Should be fun.. more on that next week.


On the way home, we stop by fedex to pick up the package that my husband was waiting for.. We got new phones.. SWEET..Droid X. Very excited. I have been using the same old razor phone for too long. We were going back and fourth if we should go to Apple and get the Iphones, but in the end we decided on the Droid X. Looks real nice. I am sure I will be playing with it all day today to see what it does..!
Another milestone - ran 7 miles this morning..! WOW I am really getting up there in my miles, I never thought I would. It felt good running, the last mile was tough. Little pain in my knees, but overall felt good. I'm feeling alot better now about my 1/2 marathon. It should be fun.
Weekend plans - Husband has a Tri this weekend - Park City Mossman Triathlon. His 1st Olympic distance race. 1.5k swim • 40k bike • 10k miles run. Should be a piece of cake after his 1/2 ironman.. :-)




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