5-6-07

Well first off I would like to wish my friend Nicole a happy wedding day. While some of our friends were able to make the trek to Atlanta for the wedding I was unable to. So since I stayed back I had the honor of watching Molly for the weekend. So we have been having a good ole time and I am officially caught up on all the kid shows.

Yesterday was our mock tri. It went really well. We set up our transition areas in Sudbury. It was a little bizarre standing around in tighter than tight spandex shorts and tops, but hey we have to look the part right?! We jumped into the pool, which was rather crowded, I really only felt like I was in race mode twice but that is probably what it will be like race day anyways so I better get used to it. After our 24 laps we ran out of the pool in our bare feet and soaking wet tri suits and got into our bike shoes and ready for the bike ride. We did a loop and we were supposed to do it five times, I ended up cutting mine down to 4 loops because I felt my lower back and knee acting up(and my lady regions were numb, as well as my feet). After hopping off the bike, my legs felt like bricks and we were off for a five mile run. My knee was locking up pretty badly so a mentor told me to only do half of the run. I thought I was going to but then I felt like I could go slow and steady and finish it, so I did. The swim took ab out 20 minutes, the bike a little over an hour and the run was 50 minutes. All in all a pretty productive Saturday.

It was a good feeling to get that under our belts. I feel a little more prepared for the race. In a few weeks we are going up to NH and practicing on the bike route, and then after that we can finally try out our wetsuits in the open water. I heard from someone at the gym that the lake we are swimming in was still partyly frozen only two weeks ago so lets pray for a heat wave!

Hoping to get some gardening done today, and to go see Nana at the rehab. Life is going to continue to be majorly busy until this triathlon is over, but the end is near. Oh and the bike made a HUGE difference yesterday.

I found a great bike route around my house the other day. It is majorly hilly and goes through a bunch of towns and is about 10 miles. I am going to start doing the loop two and three times to get used to being on the bike for so long. Despite padded shorts by butt still hurts pretty bad today!

Have a great upcoming week!