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!