whole freaking thank goodness its friday

and damn this beer tastes good. i haven't had a beer in probably a month. ok, thats exagerating a bit but its been a while.
where did i leave off. i have been busy. not so sure about the whole training thing. i know i am tired and i have been training hard but at the same time since the volume seems so low i wonder what the heck. after the only soso swim i sent my coach an email telling her i was a little discouraged blah blah blah. she was just like, why, that doesn't make sense. i got over it and had a great run on tuesday and hr at 8:31 with 1' in the mid 6's and 5x4s starting at 7:42!! but going up to 8:25 on the way back while I was all running into the wind. still i was pretty stokes. wednesday i did the mtn bike race and had a TON OF FUN. i had woken up really really tired so i only did a 1500y swim. i was dragging. i was worried how the race would go but it was awesome. i was riding so well, even hanging onto the men for a bit. i was so stoked. thursday was a rest day thank the goodness since i needed it but really i didn't get much rest out of it. i was stressed all week about work. not the work week we were in but the work week we were headed to, so i think it was affecting everything and making me more tired. friday i woke up t swim and was so tired i could barely stand it. so i went back to bed. in a few hours i woke up again, emailed into work and then went back to bed. i stayed in bed until 2pm. not all of it was sleeping, some was just laying there looking out the window watching the pollin fly through the air but all of it was relaxing, or at least trying to. around 2pm i got up and went outside with eric and the kids. it was warm and sunny so i layed down on the driveway and just layed there for prolly another hour or hour and 1/2. i send a note to my coach that i slept through the swim and i would go later. 8pm to be exact since lap swim is so freaking late. she asked if i needed a workout and i said no i had one unless (mistake #1) she had one she would like me to do. so she sent me a 2200yd workout and wanted me to time my repeats and what not. i said that was do-able. a little later she emailed again asking if i normally did around 2000yd to which i replied (mistake #2) well actually we normally do 2400-2500 but as much as 3000 to which she replied wit ok, good, go ahead and add another 400. doh!! but i was ok with that. xtie met me at the pool on mercer island and we got swimming. the pool seemed loooong. i was happy with my times, although they weren't super long.the 400s were just under 7', the 200s just over 4' and the 100s around 1:55 but i was taking a ton of rest. i was convinced that the pool was in meters but two different life guards said it was yards. i got home at what felt like midnight.
saturday we loaded up the kids and the car and headed to ephrata for a bike race. as soon as we got there i did a lap of the coarse followed by a 30minute run. i missed a turn and spent about 4 miles on a gravel road, with about 2 of those miles into a crazy ass headwind. once on the single track it was pretty fun until i got to the total sketchy parts. the parts where the trail was like 6inches wide, off camber and the one side dropping off a total cliff. yeah and then it started to rain and i was pretty positive there was going to be a flash flood right there on that mtn side and i was going to drown out there by myself. luckily i managed to get myself back to where eric and the kids were and i headed out on my 30 minutes zn2-3 run. i managed 8:17 pace at the very bottom of zn3 so i was pretty stoked.
then the kids did a kids race and we watched eric race short track and finish in a very awesome 4th. back to the hotel and then up early the next morning. i had a rest day!! which involved some hiking around with the kids and watching them play at the park. it also involved a super crappy food day, OMG its amazing that i am even alive. check this out:
Breakfast: Sausage McMuffin with Egg - McDonalds #1
Breakfast : walmart donut from the hotel's "continental" breakfast
Lunch: Oreo McFlurry - McDonalds #2
Lunch: Whopper Jr - Burger King
Snack: Pecan Cluster Blizzard - Dairy Queen
Dinner: spagetti - made by eric, OMG real food!!! what a day
monday was the start of REST WEEK which was good because it was also the start of HELL WEEK at work. i slept through swimming AGAIN so i went to the redmond pool at 8pm. and OMG i will never do that again. i was only supposed to do 1/2hr which is all i did. the floor in the locker room was sopping wet and there was a weird grey gooey film in the corners. gross!! i got changed and headed to the pool. there must have been 50 people there on a monday night at 8pm. wtf!! most were in the shallow area for public swim but there were prolly 15 or so in the deep end doing water arobics and boy can they get the waves going! other than the fact that i could see the bottom, i may have well been in open water. nutty. i was in my own lane for a long time until i got to the deep end and as I was grabbing the wall to turn around, and older, heavier lady in a really skimpy swim suit jumped over me and totally cannon balled right in front of me!!! and then what I imagined was her daughter pushed off and the two of them swam down my lane side by side. i hung on in disbeleif. when they got to the other end they turned around and headed back, side by side again. i was so confused. so i moved over two lanes and swam with some dude. when i went to the locker room, i hung my towl on one of the hooks and went to take a prison shower. a lady and her teenage daugheter both came in and hung their wet ass shit on the hooks on either side of my towl when there were probably 10 other empty hooks further away. they then each went into the bathroom stalls to change their clothes. i don't think i will go back there.
tuesday was an easy zn 1 run, wedensday i finally got my ass out of bed to get to masters and had an ok swim. thursyda was my birthday which i totally kept a secret from the people at work but the kids had a suprise bday party for me at home and then a luna triathlete sack person bday cake. so fun! today i had an awesome swim hitting 1:40s for my 100s and :20s for 25s! i couldn't beleive it. makes me think that the people at mercer island don't know how long their pool is. then i had a busy but good day at work. i gave a good presentation and it was warm and sunny. ah and now i had some birthday cake, drank a beer and amd chilling in my brand new snuggie with the kids. i do have the jaw pain though, it got really bad yesterday and today, i think an affect of the stress, but hopefully it will go away and won't last the two months it did last time.
i have a pre-ride tomorrow, and am assisting at a swim clinic and then a mtn bike race on sunday followed by a 30 minute zn3-4 run! yikes!! thats going to be exciting!