Sunday, June 24, 2007
ow
i am tired. way tired. tday was the mountains to sound race and i am disapointed in how terrible i feel right now. i got the hand off from the paddlers whom i hadn't ever met, gave them my cell phone and keys to my car, and then was off. i was feeling really good! i was picking people off all over the place. it was fun! i was worried about running 13.5 miles along the burke gilamn trail but it was actualy pretty nice. i had made myself a scrug from an old pumpkin push shirt. my arms get so cold and its just my skin that gets cold. so i cut it off real short and made it into a little jacket. it worked great! but only a few miles in i took it off and my shirt, too. i was feeling really good! they said there were two water stations, 1/3 of the way in and then 2/3s. but an hour in i knew i was more then 1/3 in and no water. just then it appeared but i think it was too late. i stopped and drank a whole cup but my mouth was instantly dry. it was all down hill from here on out. this is about when i got passed by the barefoot girl! she had little bootie things on but still. then i got passed by some really fast people, and i was ok with that. then we got to where we go for the family jogs and i started to fall apart. my knees, my back, my neck, all of it. plus i started to get worried that maybe there wouldn't be a 2nd water station and whatever. a mile or two went by and i eventaully came to the 2nd water station but it didn't help my knees or hammys. they said it was about 3 more miles to go. i got totally bummed out that the stop light changed at 25th so i could go. i really wanted to rest. i did eventually stop to stretch. and walk. a few times. it really bummed me out that i was feeling so terrible and that i had to walk as much as i did. then the temperature dropped by 5 degrees or even more, the sun went away and i had to put all my shirts back on. good that i did because it started to rain. and not yer typical seattle drizzle, but it rained some good old cats and dogs. insult to injury. but it did make me feel a little better. then i got passed by someone i had passed early on. then i got passed by two other girls that i had passed way back, but i caught on them and hung on. i wasn't able to catch and take them back, but i was able to run to the finish. my watch said 2:05, which was 5 minutes faster then i was looking to do, but 5 minutes slower then i was hoping to do. had it not been for all that walking. and i feel terrible. i have to figure out what i am going to do about the half ironman. no good is that that is going to be. i might just have to walk the whole thing.
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
little bugger
oh dear. poor sirus!! little guy, he's not even two and just made his 2nd trip to the er!! last time was in february when he was working on being a beach nurse. this time he went to children's hospital which is like not even a mile from our house. i was supposed to go swimming after werk but it took me an hour 15 to get home which meant that by the time i got to the pool i would have only 1/2 hour there and whatever i blew it off. eric was vacuuming when i got home and we were all getting ready to go for a walk. eric was stll vacuuming and seamus and i were in the bathroom when i heard it... the scuffle of the bike as we referr to the 4 wheeled plastic ride on toy of the kids, then the solid bump, then the cries. i ran right out to see poor little sirus with his hands on his face standing in a pool of blood!! i grabbed him and took him to eric right away. litle guy had bt his lip and was bleeding all over the place. i never saw anything like it. i had eric call the doctor and they said that although it likely was fine, its better to be safe especially since he fell on tile and we didn't actually see what happened. poor little guy's shirt was by this time covered in blood and tears and snot from his runny nose. i was worried about going to children's hospital because i was afraid of seeing sick or hurt little kids but it was quiet there and everyone was so incredibly nice. sirus got a bracelet and then seamus eric and i all got stickers saying we belonged to sirus. sirus was called right back into triage and then right into a room. not even 2 minutes later the doctor came in. sirus sat on my lap and was really cooperative. seamus wanted in on the action even, telling him how she hurt her foot yesterday but when the doctor asked to see it she shyed away. the doctor then tld us that he was a jr doctor and the other doctor would be in. not even 2 minutes later the senior doctor came in. wow, these doctors are so nice! ad they do such a great job! this doctors even put a tongue depresser in sirus's mouth, poked around on his teeth and everything and sirus just sat there. his teeth were ok although one on top was bleeding, and he had a hurt on his chin but he didn't seem to have a concussion and everything else seemed fine. they say that they try to avoid stitching up lips on little kids for several reasons, the main one being that it doesn't really do any good and the kids wind up tearing the stitches out anyway. plus they would have to put him under general anesthetic to do it and i just wouldn't be able to handle that at all! so, the doctor gave both seamus and sirus popsicles and sent us on our way. little guy needs to stop it!!
other news, at the 5k the other weekend, i forgot to mention that i saw my obgyn - the doctor that delivered sirus and that i went to for all the prenatal checkups for both kids. i wanted to say hi but wasn't sure if that was ok or not.
other news, at the 5k the other weekend, i forgot to mention that i saw my obgyn - the doctor that delivered sirus and that i went to for all the prenatal checkups for both kids. i wanted to say hi but wasn't sure if that was ok or not.
Sunday, June 17, 2007
cascade edge
hot damn, that was tough. i was totally concerned since i was so sick this week. i was really really sick. rarely am i put on my arse like that. but i managed a comeback, a short run on saturday and then off to the races.
i slept terribly. have been all week. my leg has been hurting, the old snowboard injury. i thot it was gone but i think its from the cycling. it didn't bother me at all last summer, but then again, last summer the only biking i did was on race day.
woke up early and it was cold and drizzly. not fun. charity called to see if we wanted anything from the starbucks and OFCOURSE we did. so then we were off to enumclaw. it got colder and wetter. i was freezing! when i was changing into my wetsuit it was sprinkling and i really started freezing with the shivers and everything. i almost broke down crying. really. but then i would have been the cryer. but i was concerned because although i was feeling ok, i was so sick just 3 dys earlier and had i really recovered?
as eric's race was about to start he went into the water. i watched him and he seemed ok. he even looked back and said it wasn't too cold. i felt a little better. then he was off and i saw him get dunked twice in his first 10 strokes. then it was time to line up for my race. thank goodness charity was there. we went in and really the water wasn't that bad. ok, yes actually it was terrible and eric is a lier, which he admitted to later. i went under and i about passed out. but my spirits had gone up a little since getting in was the worst part. then i did something i have NEVER done, i pulled out the neck of my wetsuit and went under and filled it up. good lord i almost passed out again!! then the race was off. i was doing pretty well, going at a nice and even pace just swimming along then i crashed into the person a head of me and it was all over. rounded the first buoy and headed to the second. the nice man in the kayak came over to see if i was ok and i said i was fine, just slow. he said that its ok to be slow. around the horn i went and down the other side. then i started getting lapped by the guys who started 5 minutes ahead. then down around the bottom buoy and off for lap 2. by now i was, dare i say, almost kind of enjoying the swim. i was going slower then slow and alternating between crawl and breast but i recently learned to wear my goggles not so tight and to spit in them to keep out the fog and the lake was really nice. then the kayaker came by and asked if i was ok, yes, still slow. i decided to crawl for a while and was totally on a roll just going along feeling like i was totally kicking arse out there in the lake by myself at this point. when i finally looked up i was totally off course and the dude on the jetski was watching me. WHEN was he going to come stop me i wonder? i was all mad. finaly around the horn and back in. by the time i was headed in the water was so still. i was no longer freezing. there was a weird currant in the water tho it seemed because i didn't seem to be making any progress. FINALLY i got out of the water! and i RAN up the hill to transition!! i am pretty sure i was 2nd to last out of the water but there were still lots of ppl getting ready for the bike.
i was pretty warm from the swim and was having a tough time figuring out what to wear on the bke. i opted for arm warmers and vest but no knee warmers.
44 minutes into the race, according to my watch i was on the bike and on my way. i quickly decided that i really would have liked those knee warmers. the first few miles went by quickly but there was this one part that was down hill but i really had to work really hard to get down that hill. i thought it was me until i came up on someone and she commented the same thing that i was thinking. at mile 9 the course started to be fun! i was frozen at this point with ice blocks for feet but i was having some fun and i started catching some people even! i also witnessed someone get called out by officials for drafting but they just got a warning.
according to my watch i made it back to transition at 1:38. ERIC WAS ALREADY DONE! and standing right there. i put on my shoes, took off the vest and put on my hat. the run was a 4 lap trail run which turned out to be pretty fun. starting off i was actually pretty happy with my frozen solid feet but they and the rest of me quickly heated up but boy did i have to pee. i just chugged along and the first lap flew by! i learned later that at this point eric was getting a massage.... i tossed off my arm warmers but i was never going to get through another 4.5 miles having to pee so i jumped into the bushes and squatted right there. ahhhh, much better. i quickly caught some of the people that passed me while i was peeing and then i really started picking them off. it was tricky to tell if i was picking them off since we were doing 4 laps, but i was passing people and i was pretty excited. heading out to lap 4 they called my name over the speakers as i headed out and off i went. i felt pretty good and picked up some speed and then finally i was done! my watch said 52:54, that included the bike to run transition, i think. but regardless i was happy with my run and i was even more happy to be done. but when i crossed the line and saw eric the first thing i told him was that i am pretty sure i won't be able to do the 1/2 iron man.
now thati think about it though, i just need to slow it down. yes, even slower then today, i am worried about the bike. we drove the course yesterday and i just don't know. but its laps... and hopefully it won't be 2 degrees like today and maybe it won't be 90 like it apparantly was last year.
the kids got eric a hammock for father's day. its portable and has a stand to it so we put it up in the house. it was very relaxing but EVERYONE wants to be on the hammock so we had to put it away. :( maybe we will get some nice weather and we can take it outside!!
i slept terribly. have been all week. my leg has been hurting, the old snowboard injury. i thot it was gone but i think its from the cycling. it didn't bother me at all last summer, but then again, last summer the only biking i did was on race day.
woke up early and it was cold and drizzly. not fun. charity called to see if we wanted anything from the starbucks and OFCOURSE we did. so then we were off to enumclaw. it got colder and wetter. i was freezing! when i was changing into my wetsuit it was sprinkling and i really started freezing with the shivers and everything. i almost broke down crying. really. but then i would have been the cryer. but i was concerned because although i was feeling ok, i was so sick just 3 dys earlier and had i really recovered?
as eric's race was about to start he went into the water. i watched him and he seemed ok. he even looked back and said it wasn't too cold. i felt a little better. then he was off and i saw him get dunked twice in his first 10 strokes. then it was time to line up for my race. thank goodness charity was there. we went in and really the water wasn't that bad. ok, yes actually it was terrible and eric is a lier, which he admitted to later. i went under and i about passed out. but my spirits had gone up a little since getting in was the worst part. then i did something i have NEVER done, i pulled out the neck of my wetsuit and went under and filled it up. good lord i almost passed out again!! then the race was off. i was doing pretty well, going at a nice and even pace just swimming along then i crashed into the person a head of me and it was all over. rounded the first buoy and headed to the second. the nice man in the kayak came over to see if i was ok and i said i was fine, just slow. he said that its ok to be slow. around the horn i went and down the other side. then i started getting lapped by the guys who started 5 minutes ahead. then down around the bottom buoy and off for lap 2. by now i was, dare i say, almost kind of enjoying the swim. i was going slower then slow and alternating between crawl and breast but i recently learned to wear my goggles not so tight and to spit in them to keep out the fog and the lake was really nice. then the kayaker came by and asked if i was ok, yes, still slow. i decided to crawl for a while and was totally on a roll just going along feeling like i was totally kicking arse out there in the lake by myself at this point. when i finally looked up i was totally off course and the dude on the jetski was watching me. WHEN was he going to come stop me i wonder? i was all mad. finaly around the horn and back in. by the time i was headed in the water was so still. i was no longer freezing. there was a weird currant in the water tho it seemed because i didn't seem to be making any progress. FINALLY i got out of the water! and i RAN up the hill to transition!! i am pretty sure i was 2nd to last out of the water but there were still lots of ppl getting ready for the bike.
i was pretty warm from the swim and was having a tough time figuring out what to wear on the bke. i opted for arm warmers and vest but no knee warmers.
44 minutes into the race, according to my watch i was on the bike and on my way. i quickly decided that i really would have liked those knee warmers. the first few miles went by quickly but there was this one part that was down hill but i really had to work really hard to get down that hill. i thought it was me until i came up on someone and she commented the same thing that i was thinking. at mile 9 the course started to be fun! i was frozen at this point with ice blocks for feet but i was having some fun and i started catching some people even! i also witnessed someone get called out by officials for drafting but they just got a warning.
according to my watch i made it back to transition at 1:38. ERIC WAS ALREADY DONE! and standing right there. i put on my shoes, took off the vest and put on my hat. the run was a 4 lap trail run which turned out to be pretty fun. starting off i was actually pretty happy with my frozen solid feet but they and the rest of me quickly heated up but boy did i have to pee. i just chugged along and the first lap flew by! i learned later that at this point eric was getting a massage.... i tossed off my arm warmers but i was never going to get through another 4.5 miles having to pee so i jumped into the bushes and squatted right there. ahhhh, much better. i quickly caught some of the people that passed me while i was peeing and then i really started picking them off. it was tricky to tell if i was picking them off since we were doing 4 laps, but i was passing people and i was pretty excited. heading out to lap 4 they called my name over the speakers as i headed out and off i went. i felt pretty good and picked up some speed and then finally i was done! my watch said 52:54, that included the bike to run transition, i think. but regardless i was happy with my run and i was even more happy to be done. but when i crossed the line and saw eric the first thing i told him was that i am pretty sure i won't be able to do the 1/2 iron man.
now thati think about it though, i just need to slow it down. yes, even slower then today, i am worried about the bike. we drove the course yesterday and i just don't know. but its laps... and hopefully it won't be 2 degrees like today and maybe it won't be 90 like it apparantly was last year.
the kids got eric a hammock for father's day. its portable and has a stand to it so we put it up in the house. it was very relaxing but EVERYONE wants to be on the hammock so we had to put it away. :( maybe we will get some nice weather and we can take it outside!!
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
i'm sick!
this is baaaad. i am sick, really sick, like the flu or something. its wedensday and i need to get better by sunday for the olympic distance triathlon. ugh. right about now all my bones in my back hurt, my neck feels like it is bigger then my hips, and i feel like arse.
the day after the trail run was the 5k and i have renewed confidence. just wait!! its going to get good, if i can get over this sickness.
the day after the trail run was the 5k and i have renewed confidence. just wait!! its going to get good, if i can get over this sickness.
Saturday, June 09, 2007
like mother like daughter
so today was the cougar mtn 7.5 mile trail run. i was not up for it at all. i was totally puffy from the totaly spicey enchiladas that eric made the night before and totally disappointed in the terrible apple pie i had made. but we went. lets say the enchiladas let me know they were there before the race but they were no longer a bother once the race started. i know i can go 7.5 miles but oh how i forgot that trail is so different then road. based on last years 5 miler time (i didn't even consider the 13er) i figured i would be lucky if i finished in 1:30, but thought i better mentaly prep myself for 1:45. the race started out good. the main thing that wsa different this year then last was that i aways had someone in sight in front of me and someone directly behind. last year i was by myself most of the time, in both races. at about 30 minutes i thot i might pass out it was so hard. so i decided to take a gu. i took it out of the little internal pocket of my running shorts and tore off the top. put the top back into the little pocket. tok the gu but shoved the empty part into the water bottle hand thingy. about 5 or so minutes later i realized that the little top that i tore from the top of the gu hadn;t made it back into the little pocket and was instead taking a tour of the inside of my shorts. now, you may recall what i did last year, but this year i decided to just deal.
and it was just funny. at 45 minutes i was feeling pretty good again. that may have been at the point where we had just deceneded for 5 minutes straight because not too long after that i thot i was going to die. so i walked up some of the hills and let a group of about 10 go past then i ran again. a little later and another uphill section later i let another 10 go by. i had thot my postion was good but i could see it getting worse and worse. at an hour i decided to take the other gu since i had geared up for it being another 45 minutes. as i was finishing it off i came accross a crossing and asked what the mile marker was. the lady said i had another mile and 1/2. wow! i was totaly suprised! so i started to kick it in a little, got to the water station that said only 1/2 mile left and then got to the gate that said .3 mile left then saw eric, tossed him my water bottle, sprinted past a little girl and crossed the finish line in 1:14. lets just say i was pleasantly suprised. although eric tried to burst my bubble and say it was really only 6.5, i will believe for myself that it was the whole 7.5. results are posted only up to the top 151, but a 10 yearold girl finished in 1:09. that is amazing to me. eric came in 8th overall, possibly 2nd in his age group, or maybe 4th. he did get beat by a girl though. but at least she wasnt 10.
we had originaly planned to go to the lake to swim after but it was colde and rainy and we were really tired so we came home anyway. i passed out.
tomorrow is a 5k. for this one i am actually going to warm up a little and then see what happens. it will have a big hill in it that might kill me but we will see!
here is a photo of seamus looking bad:
and sirus looking like the saddest baby ever:
and it was just funny. at 45 minutes i was feeling pretty good again. that may have been at the point where we had just deceneded for 5 minutes straight because not too long after that i thot i was going to die. so i walked up some of the hills and let a group of about 10 go past then i ran again. a little later and another uphill section later i let another 10 go by. i had thot my postion was good but i could see it getting worse and worse. at an hour i decided to take the other gu since i had geared up for it being another 45 minutes. as i was finishing it off i came accross a crossing and asked what the mile marker was. the lady said i had another mile and 1/2. wow! i was totaly suprised! so i started to kick it in a little, got to the water station that said only 1/2 mile left and then got to the gate that said .3 mile left then saw eric, tossed him my water bottle, sprinted past a little girl and crossed the finish line in 1:14. lets just say i was pleasantly suprised. although eric tried to burst my bubble and say it was really only 6.5, i will believe for myself that it was the whole 7.5. results are posted only up to the top 151, but a 10 yearold girl finished in 1:09. that is amazing to me. eric came in 8th overall, possibly 2nd in his age group, or maybe 4th. he did get beat by a girl though. but at least she wasnt 10.
we had originaly planned to go to the lake to swim after but it was colde and rainy and we were really tired so we came home anyway. i passed out.
tomorrow is a 5k. for this one i am actually going to warm up a little and then see what happens. it will have a big hill in it that might kill me but we will see!
here is a photo of seamus looking bad:
and sirus looking like the saddest baby ever:
Thursday, June 07, 2007
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
not any more
the issaquah triathlon was this weekend and it was fun. somehow i seemed to have pulled off an 8 minute mile pace for the run! amazing. after the race i felt as though the cascade edge olympic distance race will be nothing at all. until sunday morning when i tried some more open water swimming and was tired. real tired. eric said it was ok that i was tired cuz it meant that i worked hard the day before. but it made me lose confidence again. then we went for a run and it was hot and eric made me go up hill a lot. but a little into it i felt good and although i wanted to do 7 miles we stopped at 4 because there were some kids selling lemonade and it was hot and we needed some of that.
later i took the kids to rei and sirus cried his giant crocodile tears because i took his shoes off before he could play in the treehouse they have.
so, i went swimming today and did the whole 84 laps. i am REALLY slow. when i told eric that i was slow, he reminded me that the point of the lake stevens race was for me to cover the distance which is true, but i would like to not be last. ok, whatever, but the times for last year seem really fast and my pool swim was still considerably longer then the slowest time from the event. okokok then i have to remind myself that lake stevens is a world qualifier so there will be fast people there. and then ok i JUST pulled results again and now that i know approximately how long it might take me there are some folks to might come in around the same time, so that makes me feel better. but i think its all going to work out and i am excited about the olympic distance race coming up!
i am no longer a slave to the numbers that are in my pants. i went to the banana republic and saw somw cropped jean pant things that i wanted to try on. they didn't have my size so i opted to try the next size down. they fit!! they did not look good, but they fit. i see people walking around all the time looking like i did in them, but it was not good. and despite the number on the pants, i did not make the purchase. this is a good thing. instead i got some comfy yoga pants so that i can retire the black velour maternity pants i lounge around in these days.
plans for the rest of the week: ride bike home from work tomorrow, run n' bus (maybe bike if i am up to it) to work on Friday, 7.5 mile trail run at cougar mtn on saturday, bbq in the afternoon then maybe 1/2 mile pool swim, 5k on sunday and cirling back to catch up with xtie and seamus and mom and sirus! possilbe 40 mile bike ride later that afternoon. rest, rest, rest followed by the national sales meeting at work with 2 full hours of me presenting all kinds of ad operations and data goodness!
later i took the kids to rei and sirus cried his giant crocodile tears because i took his shoes off before he could play in the treehouse they have.
so, i went swimming today and did the whole 84 laps. i am REALLY slow. when i told eric that i was slow, he reminded me that the point of the lake stevens race was for me to cover the distance which is true, but i would like to not be last. ok, whatever, but the times for last year seem really fast and my pool swim was still considerably longer then the slowest time from the event. okokok then i have to remind myself that lake stevens is a world qualifier so there will be fast people there. and then ok i JUST pulled results again and now that i know approximately how long it might take me there are some folks to might come in around the same time, so that makes me feel better. but i think its all going to work out and i am excited about the olympic distance race coming up!
i am no longer a slave to the numbers that are in my pants. i went to the banana republic and saw somw cropped jean pant things that i wanted to try on. they didn't have my size so i opted to try the next size down. they fit!! they did not look good, but they fit. i see people walking around all the time looking like i did in them, but it was not good. and despite the number on the pants, i did not make the purchase. this is a good thing. instead i got some comfy yoga pants so that i can retire the black velour maternity pants i lounge around in these days.
plans for the rest of the week: ride bike home from work tomorrow, run n' bus (maybe bike if i am up to it) to work on Friday, 7.5 mile trail run at cougar mtn on saturday, bbq in the afternoon then maybe 1/2 mile pool swim, 5k on sunday and cirling back to catch up with xtie and seamus and mom and sirus! possilbe 40 mile bike ride later that afternoon. rest, rest, rest followed by the national sales meeting at work with 2 full hours of me presenting all kinds of ad operations and data goodness!
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