6/29

Now that it is the end of June, I figure I should post something before the month is out.

Still been training decently, even with all the June races we promoted. Yeah me!! Sunday thru Tuesday was boy scout camp so did not ride or swim or run. I did get to walk from about sun up to sun down and it was hot. Monday and Tuesday were oh about 100 degrees. Yikes! NO AC!! Double Yikes. I still cannot believe it. The boys did such a good job, they were so eager to do all the programs that they did not even complain about the heat--another can you believe it.

As far as the training goes yesterday did 25 miles then ran for 20 minutes. This was the first time I had tried running right after a ride. Man did that hurt. I thought I was going to have a cramp in my left calf. I haven't had a muscle cramp in years and years. A new sensation. With only 5 weeks before the tri, I am going to build in multiple days of week where I go from swim to bike to run. That is the only way my body will get accustomed to the effort with the new sports. almost forgot todays workout. Super easy day, about 10 miles with the hubby. A bike date, how cute. We had a good time.

Other things going on, lotsa work at the shop and lotsa baseball games. Hopefully a mountain bike race in a few weeks. The My mountain bike is still in pieces from the shocks being overhauled and I haven't ridden it since September. Uh Oh, sounds like a recipe for a sore and broken body. The next race I am looking forward to is the Eureka Springs Fat Tire Festival. Always a blast.

6/6

It is now 1:33 pm and the hard part of the race is over (for me at least). I run registration-which opens at 6:30 am. I arrived at about 6:00 am to set up. I should have showed up earlier. Everything went OK, except we really should have had our pre-reg riders actually pre-entered the night before. I will try harder to make that happen in the future. Typically we have more riders show up the day of than pre-register. It would be nice if folks pre-reg. Although, they still need to have their athlete release form filled out. So, not huge time saver for the racer. Things wound up going well. We had 123 racers. The longest race (men 1/2) are cycling 139 km or about 86 miles. Fortunately, the weather is pretty good.

I am so looking forward to seeing the boys. Seems like forever (Thursday afternoon) since I have seen them. Ethan had his first baseball game of the season this morning. Sounds like he did well. Fielded ball really well, but struck out at bat. Something we can have fun working on. I really love that both of the boys enjoy b-ball. They look forward to the practices and the games. I hope that they enjoy biking as much someday. It would be so cool to race together.

Workout-nil, nada, negatory, nein, etc. As expected when you are putting on the race vs. racing.

6/5

Not much workout today. Knew that would happen with the bike race this weekend. I did get 5 commuter miles in. Today was quite busy. The PSU Technology Conference was today, along with everything else. I love learning about new tech stuff. An interesting one (new for me) was amplify.com
This site allows you to take "clippings " from websites and post them for others to see. Also learned about how different generations of people are perceived. It is not a good idea to generalize groups of people based on when they were born, but it appears that there are some characteristics of different groups of people (the greatest generation, generation x, the millennial generation, etc.) in how they respond to others and their environment. When you have several generations in one work place you have the opportunity to use the strengths of all to the advantage of the employer. If everyone can work together. There was also a session on fully utilizing iGoogle to organize your digital life.

After the clinic went to the shop and worked on making sure the race was ready.

6/4

Busy, busy, busy day. The boys and I worked extra hard to get the house cleaned up for a friend spending the next few days with us. Then went to a nephew's ballgame, dropped the boys off with their cousins to stay the night. Then ran errands for the big race. Then went to a run clinic for the tri-ladies club to learn how to be a better runner. Then went for a 45 minute swim. Whew, now I am ready to hit the hay. The way the day was going, I was afraid a workout was not going to happen, again. But it did. Yeah! After the run clinic, I did my own 20 minute run, ok jog and walk. I am easing into the running. After badly twisting my ankle a year and a half ago, I am constantly worried that I will reinjure it. Biking does not bother it at all, but I could see myself easily trying to do to much on the run.

By the way, this weekend is the Kansas State Road and Criterium Championships. Our shop is hosting them in Arma on Saturday and Pittsburg on Sunday. It keeps us very busy.

Below are some pics from previous races we have hosted.

6/3

Today was an off day. I had not planned it to be an off day, but it turned out that way. I was telling myself, it would probably be ok since I had not taken the two previous off days on my workout schedule off. It still bothers me that I let my day get away from me. Bummer news too, the WinKC triathlon that I have the training plan for is, get this, full. 550 women have registered for the Aug. 1 race, so I had to put my name on a waiting list. That will teach me to procrastinate. To alleviate the pain, I have started searching for some other races that would be similar in format. Maybe there will be an off-road triathlon out there with my name on it.

I wonder when folks start out writing their blogs if there are as many I's in it as mine has. That bother me along with letting my day get away from me.

6/2

Ok, today was a good workout day. Got up early for a swim clinic. Swam for about an hour, pretty awesome, I am beginning to figure out the freestyle stroke. I need to try to swim a little everyday so that I can ingrain everything into my mind and muscles. Directly after the swim, I rode for two hours. The ride included three five minute intervals, my first of the year. Actually my first in a very long time. I should have done one more, it took those three to remember how to do the interval. The last thirty minutes of the ride were very easy, I rode with the boys from the house to the shop. It was nice, because they were excited to go ride and I did not have to twist their arms. I was supposed to run today, but ran out of time. That workout will have to be added on to Wednesday's workout. Time wise I am pretty happy with how the day went, and very happy the boys and I rode together.

6/1

Easy ride day. Thank goodness, it took 45 minutes just to get loosened up from yesterdays 50 miler. Today I rode Bill's Loop along with Pretty Loop. A total of 12.4 miles for an hour ride.

The rest of the day was full of yard work, mostly done but has some loose ends to finish up. The boys helped out tremendously. I was very happy and proud of how well they worked.