It's been so long since i posted, I'm afraid I've lost all my readers.  Gentle reader, don't despair, I'm just busy these days.  But I'm still here and in good spirits so hang in there and I'll be back soon.

I am training for a triathlon these days.  Since sweets has been exposed to super duper extreme iron man triathlons through our good friend stephen, he's the first to correct me when I'm talking about the triathlon to be sure I mention that it's a "sprint distance".  I think he doesn't think that sprint distance is a true triathlon and should be noted as such.  But this is a real tri, and should be fun, and a great way to get back into shape after baby number two.  I won't be sprinting through it, but simply trying to complete it without injury.  And since the tri starts at 6:30 in the morning, I don't want to burn out so I'm useless for the rest of the day.  Anyway, the triathlon is on July 19th, so think good thoughts. 

Training is going well so far- I'm taking a class through the local rec center so I have a pretty good training plan all set up for me.  Today I did an endurance run of a whole 45 minutes, which was a bit of a stretch for me.  But I survived, especially considered I'm running in the heat and humidity of Rhode Island this week.  I went swimming in the ocean yesterday but I didn't get very far because I was wearing goggles and could see all the seaweed and crap in the water that I was swimming in.  ew.  and it was cold.  So I would swim and gasp and eventually realized that I couldn't swim out any further because I was getting too cold and too grossed out.  Note to self- next time don't wear goggles so you can't see the crap in the water.  ew.  did I mention ew?

I had a committee meeting on Monday and it went surprisingly well.  I like my committee and they seem to like each other so I'm optimistic that we can all get along and get through this process without too much distress.

So in short: lots of stuff to do these days.  no time to post.  I'm thinking of you, internets.  I miss you.  I'll see you on the other side.

Comments

[Meri]

I'm impressed - I don't think it's warm enough to swim in the ocean here until August!

[RJStewart]

Triathlon training = awesome. Also, IMHO, Sweets has no business correcting you on the distance of your VERY REAL tri until he's done one himself. I hang out with crazy runner triathlete types, and I've never heard anyone refer to an Ironman or 1/2 Ironman as merely a "triathlon." A good part of the population thinks that any road race from a 5K on up is called a "marathon" so I'm not sure all the nomenclature makes any difference anyhow. GOOD LUCK!