once we got to CLIF, OH MY GOSH!! what an amazing place and wow, it sounds like a great place to work!! its an amazing company and it seems like they really care not just about their products but their employees, too. its a great company. we had dinner and they gave some presentations and then the pros got on stage and wow! they are pretty funny. alison dunlap, denelle kabush, shonny vanlandingham, linda gallow and marla streb were all there and they are absolutly amazing! for one they are so tiny. just tiny people. it was great to hear them talk and laugh and poke fun at each other.
after we went back to the hotel. charity and i shared a room and it turned out we shared a bed, too. i was exhausted so i went to bed. i got up early on saturday and had the makings of a migraine. we dealt with some kit exchanges and then off to breakfast. i love fruitloops. after some of those and some other cereal and some coffee and a lot of water started to feel better, but not for another few hours. i think it had to do with having the air conditioning on all night. first session was nutrition which was interesting, the next was sports psychology, then off to injury prevention. i really liked the injurty prevention one. the guy that ran it was super knowledgeable and explained everythign in a wway that made complete sence. one thing too that he touched on was he trama of chilbirth and c-sections and why if they are cutting directly through muscle, why isn't there pt for that?? it was nice to hear him aknowledge it since although i did not have a c-section, i did have so many issued with lower abdominal things after having sirus. he said it never even occured to him until his 2nd child was born and he watched the c-section happen. think lunch time was next, then off to a running clinic. it was fun and interesting and 400 degrees outside. i lead with my hips so i have to work on that a little. then we went on a group run. it was so hot, i was dying. i was only out for 1/2 hour but i was parched. i totally had other signs of dehydration too which was creepy but i got inside, showered and recovered pretty well.
then i walked to starbucks with some teammates when i probably should have been attending recovery and regeneration. they served us pizza for dinner which i thought was funny, then they followed it up with Q&A with the pros. once again, they were so cool and pretty funny and it was just great that they were there and able to talk to us.
some of the other girls went out to celebrate renee's birthday but i was exhausted. they wound up partying with a guy from all my chilren on a $5mm boat.
sunday morning i got up and went to breakfast. i plopped myself down next to alison dunlap but once there, i didn't know what to say to her. i wanted to ask her hundreds of questions but wondered if she was tired of answering questions that she has probably been asked thousands of times. luckily there was another woman at the table who told us about ballroom dancing. later we did talk about insomnia and alison Dunlap did suggest that i try not drinking coffee. i had noticed that she had two apples the night before, one before dinner and one after. i also noticed that while i was scarffing down my two bowls of fruitloops, she had raisin bran, oatmeal and a banana. i think she had a bagel or english muffin, too, but it was definitly NOT fruitloops. then off to getting ready for the day's group run. i was only up for a walk and tried to get charity and renee to join me but they wanted to run. so i ran and it was FUN. we ran out to tamalpias or whatever park and then out to the beach. it was hilly and fun and i loved it. on the way back, one of the girls from salt lake and i even opted for the big hill! it was so nice and i wondered aloud many times why we didn't do that same run the day before. after the run i showered and packed up and checked out. we went to lunch by the pool and hung out. there was a breast cancer fund presentation and then final words. and then one the best part of the weekend happened! shonny vanlandingham walked into the pool area in full gear, grabbed some lunch and sat down to read the paper. diann when right over to her, sat down and started talking to her. they must have talked for a 1/2 hour or more. so then the rest of us went over there because we were going to head out. shonny was super friendly to us! she asked us all kinds of questions, we talked about xterra worlds and swimming and biking and surfing and all kinds of things. she was SO incredibly friendly and just so amazing. she has the cutest texas accent and i just really appreciated that she took the time to talk to us. we even go our picture with her and then she took one of all of us together. pretty funny. she is my new idol and inspiration i decided :)
allie and zachary then picked me up and we went to burlingame for ice cream. it was zachary's very first ice cream cone. to celebrate i had two scoops.
then off to the airport and onto the airplane. the flight was short and in no time we were on the ground. eric and the kids picked me up and they hugged and kissed me and sirus told me over and over that he missed me. i hadn't ever gotten that from him before. the rest of the night he hugged and hugged me. one time i was in the other room and i heard him ask eric "where's mommy?". i took today off and i am happy i did. he hugged me over and over all day long. he is so sweet. i don't want to go to work tomorrow. i napped most of today and might take the tylonol pm tonight to get to bed at a decent hour.
all in all it was great weeekned. its depressing to be back in the cold and rain but i couldn't be happier being back with the kids and eric. i woke up from my nap with a sore throat again.
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