Triathletes have a crazy streak & I do another IM!

That would be me on Friday. Hartley & I were driving up to Chama on Friday before heading over the Grady Williams and I turned to him out of the blue and said, "Do you mind if I do IM Couer d'Alene?" His response: "No, of course not!" Me: "Do you want to do it with me?" Him: "No-I'm not ready" (He is doing Soma in October though). So as soon as we got to Chama, I signed up. It is that simple. I don't know what flipped it. I guess how good I felt after BSLT...I am ready to train again!

Random thoughts from someone who obviously has time on her hands today..

Here is a nugget of info. There are several questions you may want to ask before you and your spouse decide to take a significant amount (maybe forever) time off of work together. Questions like: Do we have enough to live on? How will it be being around each other so much? What do we want to do? travel? Triathlons? Take dance classes?

BUT-the most important question you need to ask yourself is: (drum rolling)....

How much do I like to do laundry?

Now this takes careful consideration especially if you: a) are use to a professional -cleaner doing alot of your laundry for work-takes 10 min to drop off and pick up b) Both of you are training maniacs so there are several sets of clothes, some sweaty and smelly everyday. I do at least a load of laundry every other day-for 2 people! This brings back memories of always hearing the sound of the washing machine going when we had 4 teenage girls in the house (I made them do their own laundry since they were 8-my daughter still thinks that was neglect).

I actually came up with a new system using this laundry organizer my daughter turned me on to from Target. This daughter is the one who shares my love for organization. we have firmly decided that the "Container Store" is our absolute favorite-only beating Bed, Bath and Beyond by a hair. We could spend hours on the phone (she lives in Denver) discussing new products to make our lives more orderly. She is not a Virgo but definitely has the Virgo gene from me.

I digress:

So now that you are informed you can make a rational decision when the time comes. Listen, the laundry takes on a whole new dimension when it piles up everyday. My hubby cooks and shops so I agreed this is my duty but I swear every time I think I have it all done-more sweaty clothes show up..

Feeling my age..and day dreaming..

I finally got tired yesterday. Hartley and i did a 30 mile bike ride on the Bosque Trail-nothing hard but my legs felt like someone had poured cement in them. Afterwards a 1900 meter swim-again felt tired. Oh and weighed myself and gained 2 lbs since before BSLT. That is depressing! My body doesn't feel recovered which scares me a little after the reviews i am reading about Farmington (very difficult, hilly, etc). I guess i wasn't thinking this was going to be a hard course for some odd reason..Oh well, I'll do how I do after the big race last weekend. I will think of it as a "long training day" . Yea right-that never works for me! Once I get around you other athletes, I get revved up and push myself anyways..I have allergies and they are bad the last couple of days. NOW what the heck is blooming? Seems like allergies are always here in ABQ. My dream is to find a place where no pollen exists, still has the perfect weather we have here and is preferably near an ocean, but not expensive. Oh, and while I am dreaming, i would like to be not farther than 200 miles away from any of my children and grandchildren. No crime and with mountains like the Sandias I am looking at outside my window right now..Does such a land exist?

My other half caves and we do a half!!

Guess what? After 6 years in the sport, 3 of which my husband didn't even know how to ride a bike or swim, he finally agreed to do a half Ironman with me!! I had to PROMISE I would stay with him, literally- Realistically, I am sure I can't even keep up with him on the bike and run at this point but I promised. Then I immediately, before he could change his mind, signed us up on Active.com for Soma in October. I told him the course was easy-so I really hope it is.. (is it for those who have done it?). He has a coach and can bike and swim now of course and think he can actually kick my ass in racing at this point..I can't believe it-I mean we use to have major arguments about my training/triathlon obsession-now he has caught the bug! I am lucky really and I have more confidence in him than he does at this point. I always said anyone could do a half or whole IM if they put in the training time-I really believe that. I think when he saw the folks at BSLT this weekend-he saw that these were just folks like us only some faster,some slower-all crazy triathletes like us.

I feel great 2 days post BSLT.I decided to take a second day off since we are planning to do Farmington this weekend. I have 2 theories-either i will be dead and really slow or I will be trained after doing BSLT to the point I will do a PR. Whatever-I don't really care-I am just having fun playing and tri-ing with hubby and friends. The people who do triathlons really are some of the greatest folks on earth!

Continued tales of jury duty..

Well, they informed me at 7:55 AM this morning I had to be at the Courthouse for jury duty at 8:45. Apparently, someone "forgot" to put the message on the machine last night-the one you call to see if you have to come in the next day. I went in the crappiest clothes i could find and not be considered homeless so they would not pick me. The questions from the lawyers took about 5 minutes. Really bright questions like "do any of you hate lawyers" and quoting Shakespear or something..I almost laughed out loud. Then did anyone own a Harley? I almost said "No, but my husband is Hartley-does that count?" The only question I answered was "do people who ride motorcycles bother you?" I said "Yes, when they do not have a helmet on. I hate seeing their brains all over the road when they crash" Well, I did say the first part..Seriously, I have seen in my old hospital nursing days that the guys who did not wear helmets ended up dead or quadriplegics and it was SAD. Well, apparently this was not a personal injury case but I said enough that they didn't pick me-yea! I had a very important hair appointment this afternoon-if you are a girl and you have that hairstylist it takes weeks to get into-you understand! I am so over my civic duty at this point-3 more days.....