Lots of stuff has gone on since last week, but since I have no coherent thread to tie it all together, I'm just going to throw it out there as random thoughts. You know my brain is kind of jumbly anyway. :) Try to follow along!
* At the end of last week, I finally got to get out on the roads. Yes, it is time to stop whining about the weather. I had a nice, hilly ride on Friday which, after Masters, kind of wore me out for the whole weekend. Given my travel schedule this week, I'm heading out in a little bit for this week's long hilly ride - that ought to wear me out through next weekend, right?
* It's great to be able to be flexible and get my long workouts in during the week, particularly given the crazy of our weekends (especially in May). On the other hand, I kind of feel out of sync with the rest of the world. Well, that's a bit of an exaggeration...but y'know - everyone else plans their long workouts for the weekend and this past Saturday was basically a rest day for me.
* Speaking of Saturday, I got into the open water - yeah me! And it didn't kill me. Granted, I didn't really swim any distance or length of time, but I didn't completely freak and...even better...my wetsuit still fits, even after vacation! Husband had his first tri of the season and they had a pre-swim at the site, so I went down and swam around as little bit too. They only let us swim back and forth in a small area, but it was still good to get that first step out of the way. Hopefully next week when I'm back from travel I'll be able to get a real OWS swim in - Raleigh is sneaking up on me.
* That's not actually true. Raleigh is NOT sneaking up on me - I'm acutely aware of how close it is and I do not feel ready. Some of it is that my workouts haven't been spot on given the weather, etc. Some of it is that I have totally built up the hills in my head as insurmountable - which is stupid - because they are surmountable even if they are hard. I need to see this as a challenge in a good way, not in a bad way.
* So crazy weekends - this past weekend we had 1 volleyball game, 2 soccer games, and 2 triathlons (one hubby, one younger daughter). Husband did awesome in his first tri of the year. He did Monticello Man in Charlottesville, VA - HILLY HILLY HILLY. And he still rocked it. I'm really proud of him. Daughter did her first tri of the year also - East Coast Tri Fest kids tri. It was her first open water tri - and although she didn't do as well as she or I would have hoped, I'm really really proud of her too. She is conquering the OWS monkey at an early age and that is just amazing. (One of my Masters coaches also said this last night - he was telling me about how he was kayak support and had a grown woman panic on him - been there, done that! - He was excited that my daughter did so well at so young.)
I don't have pics of hubby, because I couldn't be 3 places at once, but here's daughter before her race. She's awesome.
Both of them are my inspiration. And here is You're the Inspiration by Chicago - except that Peter Cetera beats Jason Scheff any day. And you know it. :)
* In other inspirational news - daughter and I also spent the morning on Sunday watching the Junior and Youth Elite race East Coast. It was amazing to watch the best in the sport doing their best. Damn they are fast!
* Finally, a last bit of inspiration. This past week I finally gave back. Yeah, I suck. My family has volunteered. Older daughter has independently volunteered. Me? I'm either racing, chasing children around, or being a wild, cheering mom. So when the opportunity came up to volunteer and not interfere with all that, I signed up - I stuffed race packets. Maybe it isn't quite as awesome as handing out water, etc. I need to find a time to do that too, but it felt good to give back. I'm also signed up to stuff packets at Rev3 Rush - daughter's 3rd triathlon of May (with RMS PowerKids the week before - yikes).
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