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I want to put the sunday tri recap up, and i will. soon.

today i took a demo class with a super runner lady. i liked it. i am thinking of doing it once a week.

i am also really looking forward to the start of making some healthy dinners for me and the girls. the summer i have concentrated on quick and give them the normal chicken fingers, pizza. pb or turkey. hopefully school will provide me more time to get some other meals in them.

not sure what to think

did the tri today

the swim was long

i feel like i winged it too much

a friend (who does tries) and is 3 months prego helped pace me in the bike. she is faster than me while prego....

a friend who decided to do it as a whim and did not even have a helmet, did it and beat me by a minute (at least that is what hubby saw on the results) i keep checking and can not find results

i am seriously still stuck in the "did i push myself enough" i really need to learn this mental toughness. as usual as soon as i was done i thought of all the places i could have pushed myself.

i was seriously down when i found out and keep rethinking things. i am thinking next season i hire a coach b/c at least i have a way to maybe get over this. in otherwords maybe i will know my limits ...do i underestimate others ? do i overestimate myself ?

the race itself was fun and i liked it - cept the run was confusing and i know we didn't run 3 miles, i hate when it is not accurate.

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bike is fixed

should not eat ice cream

got a run in and weather is too perfect

going to do ocean swim tomorrow and will bike a bit (maybe on the bike - not sure)

gotta pick up race packet tomorrow, always fun

tired tired tired

flat

I had a brick planned today, I set my alarm but kept snoozing. i figured i didn't have to rush out since i have a built in babysitter...My MOM !!! I did not rush out the door and futzed, finally I got out on the bike and my head was just all over the place. It was a kgarten picnic for my first born - HUGE. Then it was her bday party. So needless to say I was not concentrating, and that is why it makes sense that I hit a huge pot hole, kept going and then got the flat a few seconds later. I was not too far from home so I started walking home - wound up getting a ride from the freaking fastest super lady in TOWN...very ironic...story for another time. she was sweet as pie and i might just be taking her running class soon.

Problem is - no workout today - and tomorrow I can run BUT i want my biked looked at before I ride b/c i am scared I could have ruined the rim not just the tire. I have a tri this sundAY ????? I just hope the fact that i have been working out for a good amount of time will show and i won't suddenly fail in every aspect.

I am currently trying NOT to eat the second chocolate covered pretzel of the night...not sure I can win the battle. I am wiped out from an up and down emotional day !!!

sos

listen folks, i try to keep this blog about tring....but i would like to ask you all - are your kids insane ????

mine are off the deep end. they are naughty, misbehaved animals ??? what has happened, and who the hello is going to help me ?

swim

so i did go swim. i have not swam in the pool in a long long time. i have been doing ocean swims. with ocean swims, i just go swim. i don't do any type of intervals or any speed work. i just swim. and i don't even swim that long.

it was nice to swim in the pool, but i had no workout set and i just let myself do some 100's - trying to focus on form and i tried out bilateral breathing instead of my one side. then i figured i would time myself on a 100 and try to go fast. 2.17....a very slow time. if i recall during my swim workouts this winter i was getting in around 2.03 ?? ok, i will go again and maybe i just didn't push enough. so timed another 100, and it was another 2.17....i think i need to get back in the pool and work with irongirl. for reals ???? but i got up and did it.

tomorrow is a workout with trainer.

thursday i plan on doing a brick

friday i might take off

saturday i will do ocean swim and maybe a run

sunday another tri

waking up late

i was always a late sleeper. Oh how I could sleep in my teens, and then in my 20's in NYC ?? seriously I could stay in bed till noon w not an ounce of desire to get up. But now, I like getting up and out and I don't even get up early. I just like getting my day started and getting my workout DONE.

My girls have gone haywire this summer and bedtime has become whenever they feel like it, 10, 9 whateva !! this leads to them sleeping in which doesn't help with me getting up and out !!!

today i wanted to spin at 9.15, it is 9,14 and we are just eating bfast !!! I swear if I didn't wake them today I believe they would still be sleeping.

Now I have to rethink my workouts for the week. The good thing is Mom comes today and I can workout outside and anytime.....the question is do i still drag us all to the gym NOW and get a swim in ?????