what am i, velvet?

so, its only been a few days and already i have forgotten the pain and am thinking about doing my next 1/2 ironman. i have told a few people that the race is just like labor and childbirth. you anticipate the event for months and months, go through periods of excitement, worry, self doubt and sickness, then you get to the actual event and its exiciting but scary and it hurts and you wonder if it will ever be over, you cramp and you worry and you want it to be over and then it is and you vow to never go through it again.

then a few days go by, the pain subsides, you feel better, you reflect on your accomplishement and you say - wow that is amazing! i think i want to do it again!

of course there are a few main differences between the two events though: during the race you are allowed to eat. during labor and child birth you get to lay down. during the race you get to wear pants. during labor and child birth you can chose to have your lower 1/2 totally numb - during the race it just happens.

i have told eric about a billion times how proud of us i am. and to give myself a little credit i have told sirus and seamus about a billion times that i love them.

i went swimming on wednesday and felt really good! i was going to ride my bike into work this morning since eric and the kids picked me up from work yesterday and i left my car here, but it seemed pretty miserable in the morning and there wound up being thunderstorms so it was good that i didn't do it. but the seafair tri is on sunday and i am doing the swim, xtie is biking and my mom will run! i will do the run portion with her. i am excited but don't want to "can't wait" my whole weekend away!!!