Catch Up Time

The past five months have been relatively light, vet work-wise. That ended last week when, after a couple phone calls and emails, I ended up overbooking my summer — which is fine, more money for yarn and (hate to admit it, but more importantly), triathlon toys....

Alcatraaaaazzzzz

Finished….. Gotta say, it was a million times harder than the Wildflower Olympic. I should’ve been a LOT more scared. Ignorance is bliss. more later…..oh, for pics of me (taller, white hat) & Mel (shorter, red sports bra, red hat), check out my...

Real Training

I think I mentioned earlier that Mel signed up with Acme Coaching, and that we’re both doing her training plan. Wow. And ouch. I don’t see how we’re a) not going to get a lot better and b) not going to lose weight if we follow this. It’s a huge...

Coming up quickly….

Yeah, I know, I still owe a Wildflower report. It’ll get here, sooner or later. Alcatraz is coming up, very very quickly. Apparently everyone who told Mel and me that if we could do Wildflower, Alcatraz would be a breeze, was LYING, according to Mel’s new...

No ankle pain

I had a nice easy run with Melanie yesterday morning — with no ankle pain! Yeah! Of course, the various portions of my anatomy that I worked out in the weight room have been, shall we say, complaining. My problem is, I can’t really do a ‘light’...

Post Jet-Lag

Finally got back in gear after recovering from being jetlagged (yeah, I know, excuses, excuses). Easy 3 mile run with Mel on Friday. Saturday, up the hard side of PV (my first time!), which is a 25 mile bike ride, followed by a 2.5-3 mile run (trudge). Today I did the...