so thursday started with a 2hr ride on the trainer in the morning before work. there was lots of mad men being watched folliowed by the tudors. i can watch the tudors all day while on the trainer. its slow, and not much goes on, but its good. i like it. but that was the end of my happiness. work was really hard. lots happens at work all the time, but when it all happens all in one day, yeah, sometimes i don't do so well. i wound up crying to my boss! ooooh nooo!! wow, that was embarrassing. but i was pretty upset. usually i am a low key, easy going kind of gal, but yeah, not that day. i was all riled up and wow. anyway, my boss was awesome about it, made me not feel like a dumb ass for getting so upset and helped me figure some stuff out. it was good. embarrassing, but good. so i went home after work and drank some cosmopolitans, which weren't nearly as good as the lemon drops but there were no lemon drops, only cosmos. they did the job.
up early and off to swimming on friday. WTH??? when did friday become butterfly friday? ugh. but swimming has been going so well so that was good. saturday was a fun 3hr ride with the girls. at one point i was doing a standing drill and my hr monitor started beeping. one of the girls riding near me asked me what the beeping was telling me. my initial though was to say that it was telling me how awesome i am, but instead i told her the truth. the weather was semi-crappy but really not too bad, so it was way fun but sheesh, i was pooped after! i passed out on the couch!!! PASSED OUT.
in the morning i took seamus to her circus class. its way fun. she really likes it although some of it is "scary fun", like sitting on the top of the trapeze. she is not a fan of that. today she did some crazy things on the rope and the hoop. they also did more acrobalancing. i think we need to so some of that at home, but its so cute because the kids all balance in funny positions on top of each other.
after we went for a run in our new compression tights. i wore my new orthotics for the first half and they were awesome. but i took them off 1/2 way just to be sure. i am very concerned and dont' want to push it. every time my hr got too high and the hr monitor beeped, eric would look over to me and tell me that i need to back off of my awesomeness. january is not the time to be awesome.
but right now, i am exhausted. i am patiently waiting for the kids to go to bed so i can chow down on some peanutbutter captain crunch, and then i suspect i will go to bed. but i am chilling in my new compressions socks recovering, right?
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
big week
i am in the middle of a high volume week! or at least high volume for me!! i am happy though because i just finished up the last of the running until sunday (which on my tracking plan is considered next week!).
so far just a little over 22.5 miles running, i've already swam 3.5miles and have one more swim to do on friday which will put me at around the 4.85 or more miles for the week and then i've got 5hrs of biking to do between tomorrow and saturday. so its a big week. for the month, its on track to be the biggest month i've had in my training, which is pretty exciting and pretty cool at the same time.
i was looking at my training log from last year and noticed a pattern - on my rest weeks i am starving non-stop! eric always tells me when i complain about being so hungry all the time - hey yer on a rest day, or its a rest week and i'm like whateva, but apparently its true. except my notes are more along the lines of "omg i totally chowed down and now i feel sick" during those rest weeks but never during the high volume weeks.
i can't remember if i mentioned before the sweet gear a friend of ours gave me as payment for some work eric did on her house. we're talking super high tech awesome winter riding gear. anyway, today she gave us compressions socks and tights and hats! i wore the tights on my run and they felt good! and the socks are awesome, i want to wear them forever. is it bad to sleep in them? can i wear them to work?
what i learned on tuesday is that wearing jeans that are too tight do not have the same affect as compressions tights. i had to take my pants off, yes - at work, towards the end of the day because i was getting a head ache. i was sitting in a meeting talking to my boss when it hit me. luckily (i guess??) i had swam in the morning so i had all my pajamas and stuff with me, so i took those too tight jeans off and put on some nice cozy sweats and my slippers (because i was also wearing some fancy tall boots - but A+ for me since they are flat with no heel!!!). i think the pants were fine except i ran for an hour on the treadmill in the middle of the day and then put them back on and that is when the trouble started. not sure if my huge, massive muscles were just bulging out all over the place after that run, or what the deal was but there was soemthing definitly going on after the run that was not working with the jeans. can i wear my new compression socks with the boots to work? i told eric i would wear the compression socks with my running skirt and i'll tie a shirt all up all britney spears all baby one more time like and that is how i will do all my runs from now on. because as he and i discussed about me and swimming - its not really about the swimming, its about making a spectacle of myself which he will be doing soon, too since we got him this for his upcoming birthday:
so far just a little over 22.5 miles running, i've already swam 3.5miles and have one more swim to do on friday which will put me at around the 4.85 or more miles for the week and then i've got 5hrs of biking to do between tomorrow and saturday. so its a big week. for the month, its on track to be the biggest month i've had in my training, which is pretty exciting and pretty cool at the same time.
i was looking at my training log from last year and noticed a pattern - on my rest weeks i am starving non-stop! eric always tells me when i complain about being so hungry all the time - hey yer on a rest day, or its a rest week and i'm like whateva, but apparently its true. except my notes are more along the lines of "omg i totally chowed down and now i feel sick" during those rest weeks but never during the high volume weeks.
i can't remember if i mentioned before the sweet gear a friend of ours gave me as payment for some work eric did on her house. we're talking super high tech awesome winter riding gear. anyway, today she gave us compressions socks and tights and hats! i wore the tights on my run and they felt good! and the socks are awesome, i want to wear them forever. is it bad to sleep in them? can i wear them to work?
what i learned on tuesday is that wearing jeans that are too tight do not have the same affect as compressions tights. i had to take my pants off, yes - at work, towards the end of the day because i was getting a head ache. i was sitting in a meeting talking to my boss when it hit me. luckily (i guess??) i had swam in the morning so i had all my pajamas and stuff with me, so i took those too tight jeans off and put on some nice cozy sweats and my slippers (because i was also wearing some fancy tall boots - but A+ for me since they are flat with no heel!!!). i think the pants were fine except i ran for an hour on the treadmill in the middle of the day and then put them back on and that is when the trouble started. not sure if my huge, massive muscles were just bulging out all over the place after that run, or what the deal was but there was soemthing definitly going on after the run that was not working with the jeans. can i wear my new compression socks with the boots to work? i told eric i would wear the compression socks with my running skirt and i'll tie a shirt all up all britney spears all baby one more time like and that is how i will do all my runs from now on. because as he and i discussed about me and swimming - its not really about the swimming, its about making a spectacle of myself which he will be doing soon, too since we got him this for his upcoming birthday:
Saturday, January 23, 2010
is this normal?
i haven't ever swam so much as to wear out a swim suit. but now i have. is this wear pattern normal?
Friday, January 22, 2010
testing - 1,2,3, testing
this week was a rough week. wait, i meant to say it was a rest week! PT has been going well although seems like everything else is falling apart! my lower right back, or maybe its my hip apparently doesn't move. the joints are all squished or something. but all i can say is no more massage therapists, now i will always go to a PT. they do magic.
work is good. its always good. december was super crazy stressful and now january has been pretty mellow although today was stressful and busy. but i got through it.
today also i was doing a functional threshold test on my bike. i did a similar thing for running at the end of 2008 and it made me want to cry. so, as one might imagine, i was worried about this test. it was similar in that it was a pretty much all out effort for 30-ish minutes. the running one was 30 minutes no matter how you sliced it. the biking one was 10 miles, so the faster you are, the shorter the test.
since it wasn't until 6pm, i was worried all day about what i was eating and drinking and blah blah blah. i treated it like a race and had a pb&j 3hrs before, and thankfully right after the last stressful meeting of the day. then it was just a count down.
i got there early and hung out in the parking lot playing bejeweled blitz on my iphone then i decided it was time.
i got my bike set up on the computrainer and ben took all my info. since i hadn't done any rides there before he wasn't sure what to expect for my wattage but gave me a range that he thought i might wind up in.
there was one other person there to take the test, so that was good. taking the test by myself wouldn't have been nearly as much fun.
i normally don't like having fans on me while on the trainer, but they were all set up and i just went with it. i did notice that it was drying my mouth out quite a bit but whatever. next time i might ask for the fans to be diverted.
then it was 3 - 2 - 1 - BEEEEP!! and we were off. i think those first two miles went pretty well. i didn't feel like i was going too hard and i wasn't going too easy either. they did seem to take a long time. miles 3-4 flew by, mile 5 took a really long time. at some point in mile 6-7, i got dizzy and was pretty sure i was going to pass out. i was breathing well, but i was dizzy as hell. i figured i was too far in to quit, plus if i really did pass out, well, that would have been embarrassing but i kept going anyway. i started to feel better. with 2.5 miles to go i was feeling it but feeling pretty good, too. 2 miles to go, i took another gear and was really working. 1 mile to go i think i took another gear, i'm not sure, but it was almost done. and then it was done, for real.
around that 6-7 mile period i noticed that my average wattage dropped by 1. i totally panicked!! but then i managed to get the average up by 5 before the test was up. and i fell pretty much right in the middle of the range he predicted for me.
i also collected my average HR data which was interesting. when i did the similar test running it was 181, this time it was 177. does that mean i should have been working harder? could i have worked harder? i don't know. but in 6-8 weeks, he suggested i test again so i guess i might find out then. yikes!
now off to bed soon to get some good rest before 2:30 of biking tomorrow, and 1:15 of running and :30 of swimming on sunday.
work is good. its always good. december was super crazy stressful and now january has been pretty mellow although today was stressful and busy. but i got through it.
today also i was doing a functional threshold test on my bike. i did a similar thing for running at the end of 2008 and it made me want to cry. so, as one might imagine, i was worried about this test. it was similar in that it was a pretty much all out effort for 30-ish minutes. the running one was 30 minutes no matter how you sliced it. the biking one was 10 miles, so the faster you are, the shorter the test.
since it wasn't until 6pm, i was worried all day about what i was eating and drinking and blah blah blah. i treated it like a race and had a pb&j 3hrs before, and thankfully right after the last stressful meeting of the day. then it was just a count down.
i got there early and hung out in the parking lot playing bejeweled blitz on my iphone then i decided it was time.
i got my bike set up on the computrainer and ben took all my info. since i hadn't done any rides there before he wasn't sure what to expect for my wattage but gave me a range that he thought i might wind up in.
there was one other person there to take the test, so that was good. taking the test by myself wouldn't have been nearly as much fun.
i normally don't like having fans on me while on the trainer, but they were all set up and i just went with it. i did notice that it was drying my mouth out quite a bit but whatever. next time i might ask for the fans to be diverted.
then it was 3 - 2 - 1 - BEEEEP!! and we were off. i think those first two miles went pretty well. i didn't feel like i was going too hard and i wasn't going too easy either. they did seem to take a long time. miles 3-4 flew by, mile 5 took a really long time. at some point in mile 6-7, i got dizzy and was pretty sure i was going to pass out. i was breathing well, but i was dizzy as hell. i figured i was too far in to quit, plus if i really did pass out, well, that would have been embarrassing but i kept going anyway. i started to feel better. with 2.5 miles to go i was feeling it but feeling pretty good, too. 2 miles to go, i took another gear and was really working. 1 mile to go i think i took another gear, i'm not sure, but it was almost done. and then it was done, for real.
around that 6-7 mile period i noticed that my average wattage dropped by 1. i totally panicked!! but then i managed to get the average up by 5 before the test was up. and i fell pretty much right in the middle of the range he predicted for me.
i also collected my average HR data which was interesting. when i did the similar test running it was 181, this time it was 177. does that mean i should have been working harder? could i have worked harder? i don't know. but in 6-8 weeks, he suggested i test again so i guess i might find out then. yikes!
now off to bed soon to get some good rest before 2:30 of biking tomorrow, and 1:15 of running and :30 of swimming on sunday.
Friday, January 15, 2010
oh my goodness
so training is stepping it up these days. swimming 4 times a week, biking 2, running 2, on the stairmaster for 1 and core 3 times. its adding up and i can see myself getting faster by the second. ok, so the stairmaster is to build leg strength but also to get my butt to look goooood. the swimming has actually been pretty fun. i have been waking up every weekday morning in the 5-530 range which i think has helped but also i think the PT stuff has really helped. unbeleiveable. or maybe it was the 600 yards of bilateral breathing we did today? i don't know but i feel good and i am pretty darn psyched.
so on MONDAY night i got a phone call from a good friend and former coworker. i don't normally get phone calls from him, especially not in the evening, so i was a bit concerned until he said his wife was going to go to Emerald City Trapeze the following night and wanted to know if I would like to go along. to this i said HELLS YEAH.
the next day at work i was a mess. i was so freaked out. Annie sent me a link to a write up about the place that had some videos. while i read and watched, i didn't get the nervous feeling in my stomach like before races but instead my hands were just dripping in sweat. it was crazy and really gross.
finally the day was over so i headed out and made it to the SODO with plenty of time to spare. i was out of gas so i drove around and found a gas station and can i just say i am SUCH a suburbanite now. first off you can't pay at the pump. so i had to go in and the lady had to tell me how they don't take credit cards. so i had to go back to the car to get my debit card. while fidling in the car a police car drove up and grabbed a guy who was hanging around outfront, i think just loittering, but i don't know what the real deal was. back in i went and the lady had to explain how to do the whole pay in advance thing to me. ???? i was totally embarassed, but she was super nice.
when i finally parked at the trapeze place i sat in the car and played bejeweled blitz on my phone for a while then finally went it. i was so nervous that i totally tripped on the cement stairs and almost ended my circus career right there.
the building is amazing! totally breathtaking!!! super high ceilings, i can;t begin to guess how high. the floors are stained plywood, the building is narrow but long and the trapeze area is the main focus - lots of net!!
annie got there and helped to ease some of my fears. then another girl and one guy who was quite advanced joined us as well. i was the only first timer so they demonstrated hanging from your knees from a static trapeze that was like 8 or 9 feet off the group - i had to jump to reach it. ok, so just getting up and hooking my knees and then aaaak!!! letting go was hard. it was crazy. then the guy helped me down and said, ok, you are ready. i was like what??? he fitted me in a safety belt which cut off about 20% of the oxygen to my brain, and one of the other girls went first so i could watch her go. then it really was my turn. now there were lots of super freaky things about this whole thing but one was how they just throw you into it. i figured i'd get to go up there, swing around, drop and then try it again. but oooooh no! i was going to attempt the knee hang on my first try. i was pretty sure they were all crazy but whatever.
i went over to the ladder, the guy attached me to the a line next to the ladder. he explained how the line lets you go up but not down. he joked that no one had ever fallen off the ladder and of course i got totally worried and how embarrassing if i were to be the first! but where! i totally made it to the top although it took prolly 20 minutes to get there. once at the top you hold onto the support while the girl up there unhooks you and then you manuver to the middle of the platform, the whole time holding on for dear life with both hands. once in the middle, she hooks you up to the safety lines. clip, clip and there, all safe. you keep holding on with your left hand. she then put her hand into the back of the belt so she could have a good hold and then she pulled the bar in and i grabbed it. it was heavy and i totally let out a akkk! she laughed and said yet it was heavy. the whole time i DID NOT LOOK DOWN. i looked straight ahead. I didn't even look at the bar for fear i might accidentally look down! then, she told me to let go with my left hand and grab the bar, which was totally freaky!!! i definitly let out an akk then! but she was holding on tight, and she explained to lean forward with my hips pushed out and shoulders back. then she said ready, i bent my knees, and then "HEP!" and I jumped!!!! down i went!! flying flying flying! the guy on the ground started shouting out orders - hook your knees and ah, i missed it! he said i'd get it on the next swing through and then i swang out and again came the command. i pulled my knees up and had them hooked. next the guy yelled out to let go of my hands! are you INSANE!!! so i did it! and i swung back and forth, next he told me to gran the bar again and pull my legs down. i swang back and forth and then it was time for the dismount!! you kick forward, backward, then forward again and let go!! and somehow magically you totally do a flip! it was crazy!! i landed on the net and just laid there. it was a total - what just happened moment. !! i crawled to the edge of the net, and he gave me instructions on how to flip off the net. and then i had to go sit down because the was totally insane!!
so, i did that a few times. it was fun and each time i gained a little bit more confidence. until the girl at the top told me we were 35 feet in the air! Yikes!! while i practiced my knee hang, annie learned a new trick where she kind of hung upside down from her arms and then flung herself out, and the other girl was doing an upside down split. the guy was way advanced and didn't use the safety lines and was learning all kinds of stuff.
i did start to get tired. i sat out a rotation and then it was time to do a catch!! the freakiest part about the catch was that all the people changed places! the girl came to the ground to call out the orders, the guy who would attach us to the ladder went to the platform to hook us in and send us off and the guy who had been on the ground calling the order and holding the safety lines was now going to be swinging on the other trapeze and he was going to catch us!
what i learned is that as long as you do the knee hang correctly, the catch is super easy. your arms are already out there, and you aren't really grabbing at anything - its the catcher's job to find your hands and arms and grab on. so i climbed back up. the guy at the top had a totally different way of holding on, it seemed looser but it was fine. you really just have to trust them. he then called out what i was doing, and the guy on the other trapeze started swinging, he got all upside down, and yelled ready, HEP! so I jumped. the girl on the ground yelled out the commands, i did them, i arched my back, had my hands out, saw the guy, he yelled grab my hands, straighten you legs (ok apparently he had to tell me that twice - you can even see in the video how we kind of stop right when the catch is happening) and next thing you know i was hanging from that other guys hands just swinging along! then he told me to push down and let go, and i did and bop! right on my butt into the net. the video is of my very first try at the catch.
OMG. i was so pumped afterwards. I hurried home to tell eric all about it!! i wanted to tell everyone i knew and i practically did. it was so insane. annie sent me the videos and i have watched them a hundred times. i can barely believe that that is me doing that!
eric has since been signed up to try it! and we have signed seamus up for the children's circus performance series. she will go for 8 weeks and learn aerial (static trapeze, rope, silks, hoop), acrobatics, acrobalance, juggling, and trampoline and then she will perform in a show! she starts on sunday. she thinks she would like to try the trapeze but she isn't quite sure, so we figured we'd start her with this first and see how she likes it! now we just need to get sirus up to speed and then we can go on tour!!!
so on MONDAY night i got a phone call from a good friend and former coworker. i don't normally get phone calls from him, especially not in the evening, so i was a bit concerned until he said his wife was going to go to Emerald City Trapeze the following night and wanted to know if I would like to go along. to this i said HELLS YEAH.
the next day at work i was a mess. i was so freaked out. Annie sent me a link to a write up about the place that had some videos. while i read and watched, i didn't get the nervous feeling in my stomach like before races but instead my hands were just dripping in sweat. it was crazy and really gross.
finally the day was over so i headed out and made it to the SODO with plenty of time to spare. i was out of gas so i drove around and found a gas station and can i just say i am SUCH a suburbanite now. first off you can't pay at the pump. so i had to go in and the lady had to tell me how they don't take credit cards. so i had to go back to the car to get my debit card. while fidling in the car a police car drove up and grabbed a guy who was hanging around outfront, i think just loittering, but i don't know what the real deal was. back in i went and the lady had to explain how to do the whole pay in advance thing to me. ???? i was totally embarassed, but she was super nice.
when i finally parked at the trapeze place i sat in the car and played bejeweled blitz on my phone for a while then finally went it. i was so nervous that i totally tripped on the cement stairs and almost ended my circus career right there.
the building is amazing! totally breathtaking!!! super high ceilings, i can;t begin to guess how high. the floors are stained plywood, the building is narrow but long and the trapeze area is the main focus - lots of net!!
annie got there and helped to ease some of my fears. then another girl and one guy who was quite advanced joined us as well. i was the only first timer so they demonstrated hanging from your knees from a static trapeze that was like 8 or 9 feet off the group - i had to jump to reach it. ok, so just getting up and hooking my knees and then aaaak!!! letting go was hard. it was crazy. then the guy helped me down and said, ok, you are ready. i was like what??? he fitted me in a safety belt which cut off about 20% of the oxygen to my brain, and one of the other girls went first so i could watch her go. then it really was my turn. now there were lots of super freaky things about this whole thing but one was how they just throw you into it. i figured i'd get to go up there, swing around, drop and then try it again. but oooooh no! i was going to attempt the knee hang on my first try. i was pretty sure they were all crazy but whatever.
i went over to the ladder, the guy attached me to the a line next to the ladder. he explained how the line lets you go up but not down. he joked that no one had ever fallen off the ladder and of course i got totally worried and how embarrassing if i were to be the first! but where! i totally made it to the top although it took prolly 20 minutes to get there. once at the top you hold onto the support while the girl up there unhooks you and then you manuver to the middle of the platform, the whole time holding on for dear life with both hands. once in the middle, she hooks you up to the safety lines. clip, clip and there, all safe. you keep holding on with your left hand. she then put her hand into the back of the belt so she could have a good hold and then she pulled the bar in and i grabbed it. it was heavy and i totally let out a akkk! she laughed and said yet it was heavy. the whole time i DID NOT LOOK DOWN. i looked straight ahead. I didn't even look at the bar for fear i might accidentally look down! then, she told me to let go with my left hand and grab the bar, which was totally freaky!!! i definitly let out an akk then! but she was holding on tight, and she explained to lean forward with my hips pushed out and shoulders back. then she said ready, i bent my knees, and then "HEP!" and I jumped!!!! down i went!! flying flying flying! the guy on the ground started shouting out orders - hook your knees and ah, i missed it! he said i'd get it on the next swing through and then i swang out and again came the command. i pulled my knees up and had them hooked. next the guy yelled out to let go of my hands! are you INSANE!!! so i did it! and i swung back and forth, next he told me to gran the bar again and pull my legs down. i swang back and forth and then it was time for the dismount!! you kick forward, backward, then forward again and let go!! and somehow magically you totally do a flip! it was crazy!! i landed on the net and just laid there. it was a total - what just happened moment. !! i crawled to the edge of the net, and he gave me instructions on how to flip off the net. and then i had to go sit down because the was totally insane!!
so, i did that a few times. it was fun and each time i gained a little bit more confidence. until the girl at the top told me we were 35 feet in the air! Yikes!! while i practiced my knee hang, annie learned a new trick where she kind of hung upside down from her arms and then flung herself out, and the other girl was doing an upside down split. the guy was way advanced and didn't use the safety lines and was learning all kinds of stuff.
i did start to get tired. i sat out a rotation and then it was time to do a catch!! the freakiest part about the catch was that all the people changed places! the girl came to the ground to call out the orders, the guy who would attach us to the ladder went to the platform to hook us in and send us off and the guy who had been on the ground calling the order and holding the safety lines was now going to be swinging on the other trapeze and he was going to catch us!
what i learned is that as long as you do the knee hang correctly, the catch is super easy. your arms are already out there, and you aren't really grabbing at anything - its the catcher's job to find your hands and arms and grab on. so i climbed back up. the guy at the top had a totally different way of holding on, it seemed looser but it was fine. you really just have to trust them. he then called out what i was doing, and the guy on the other trapeze started swinging, he got all upside down, and yelled ready, HEP! so I jumped. the girl on the ground yelled out the commands, i did them, i arched my back, had my hands out, saw the guy, he yelled grab my hands, straighten you legs (ok apparently he had to tell me that twice - you can even see in the video how we kind of stop right when the catch is happening) and next thing you know i was hanging from that other guys hands just swinging along! then he told me to push down and let go, and i did and bop! right on my butt into the net. the video is of my very first try at the catch.
OMG. i was so pumped afterwards. I hurried home to tell eric all about it!! i wanted to tell everyone i knew and i practically did. it was so insane. annie sent me the videos and i have watched them a hundred times. i can barely believe that that is me doing that!
eric has since been signed up to try it! and we have signed seamus up for the children's circus performance series. she will go for 8 weeks and learn aerial (static trapeze, rope, silks, hoop), acrobatics, acrobalance, juggling, and trampoline and then she will perform in a show! she starts on sunday. she thinks she would like to try the trapeze but she isn't quite sure, so we figured we'd start her with this first and see how she likes it! now we just need to get sirus up to speed and then we can go on tour!!!
Friday, January 08, 2010
sabotage
= what eric is trying to do to my racing career. how do i know? because he made me change my own flat yesterday and was making apple crisp when i came home from work.
now i am eating it with ice cream.
more from the PT that i forgot - my legs are the same length but my right hip is higher and my left shoulder is totally higher. i am pretty sure i am perfect though.
dude, swimming has been hard this week but fun! this is what I wore:
now i am eating it with ice cream.
more from the PT that i forgot - my legs are the same length but my right hip is higher and my left shoulder is totally higher. i am pretty sure i am perfect though.
dude, swimming has been hard this week but fun! this is what I wore:
Thursday, January 07, 2010
PTing
i went to the PT yesterday. i need new orthotics and i decided to go to someone new. i've had the same ones for a few years and i realized my feet kind of always hurt.
the guy watched me walk. and run. and squat and all kinds of other things. he asked me if anyone ever told me that i walk loudly to which i replied, no and went on to tell him that if they did, i would hit them. he laughed. i was serious.
but he helped me understand why when i do track workouts my right leg feels like its on wrong, and my the top of my left foot hurts and the bottom of both feet hurt. it was good. he said the orthotics would make me a more efficient runner. i said, oh, you mean faster? he said more efficient. i then made him say they would make me faster so he did, and he laughed again.
i went to the PT today. a different one, but in the same clinic. at 630am. i showed up and at 640, the guy i saw the day before came out to tell me that the people who do the scheduling didnt tell the therapist i was meeting with that she had an appointment. she would be an hour late, but could see me at 730. i said ok.
my neck hurts. it always has but it gets really bad sometimes. i see a massage therapist and have been for a few years. maybe you remember the horrible jaw pain from october 08? but really it has been a few years. its terrible. i went to a chiropractor once who told me my neck bends the wrong way. but they were far away and expensive so i wasn't ready to commit to that plan. so i came to this pt. apparently my back doesn't have a curve in it where it is supposed to and then at the very top, it bends to the left. she said not scoliosis, just a bend, which could be due to the muscles pulling it over there. the muscles could be tight because i have a giant head, because i sit at a desk and have bad posture, because i am right handed or because when i swim i only breathe out the right side. she suggested when i swim to try and do a few laps breathing out the left and i told her i will do that but if i drown, i will stop. she then gave me lots of hugs and showed me some exercises to do. then i will go back twice a week for the next two weeks and then maybe be pain free! that would be awesome!!
the guy watched me walk. and run. and squat and all kinds of other things. he asked me if anyone ever told me that i walk loudly to which i replied, no and went on to tell him that if they did, i would hit them. he laughed. i was serious.
but he helped me understand why when i do track workouts my right leg feels like its on wrong, and my the top of my left foot hurts and the bottom of both feet hurt. it was good. he said the orthotics would make me a more efficient runner. i said, oh, you mean faster? he said more efficient. i then made him say they would make me faster so he did, and he laughed again.
i went to the PT today. a different one, but in the same clinic. at 630am. i showed up and at 640, the guy i saw the day before came out to tell me that the people who do the scheduling didnt tell the therapist i was meeting with that she had an appointment. she would be an hour late, but could see me at 730. i said ok.
my neck hurts. it always has but it gets really bad sometimes. i see a massage therapist and have been for a few years. maybe you remember the horrible jaw pain from october 08? but really it has been a few years. its terrible. i went to a chiropractor once who told me my neck bends the wrong way. but they were far away and expensive so i wasn't ready to commit to that plan. so i came to this pt. apparently my back doesn't have a curve in it where it is supposed to and then at the very top, it bends to the left. she said not scoliosis, just a bend, which could be due to the muscles pulling it over there. the muscles could be tight because i have a giant head, because i sit at a desk and have bad posture, because i am right handed or because when i swim i only breathe out the right side. she suggested when i swim to try and do a few laps breathing out the left and i told her i will do that but if i drown, i will stop. she then gave me lots of hugs and showed me some exercises to do. then i will go back twice a week for the next two weeks and then maybe be pain free! that would be awesome!!
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
Monday, January 04, 2010
Saturday, January 02, 2010
funny people
i have some sweet new winter riding gear. it is SWEET. its all the crazy new technical fabric stuff that is crazy. i was wearing ALL of it the other day when it was raining. head to toe one label. kind of funny but ya know what I was totally dry and warm despite it being cold and pouring down rain. but we stopped at the bathrooms and i was standing there some racer dude pulled up and asked me if i rode for the team of all the gear i was wearing. i said yes, to which he replied "oh! i thought those legs looked fast!" eric and the friend who gave me the gear said the dude was totally hitting on me, i thought he was just making fun of me. regardless i was dry.
today i went for a trail run and then stopped at the gym to do a core workout. on new years eve, janet and i went to the VO2 performance center for a core circuit class. i had a suspicion that the core work i was already doing might not be sufficient so i wanted to take a class and see how it went. the class was fun, there were 5 stations with 2 exercises at each. i broke a sweat which i was surprised by but never felt totally spent. ok, except the one where you hold onto the 4 pound ball and twist side to side. i thought my arms were going to fall off. but the following morning, i sure felt the workout. i was totally sore all over the place. i was surprised and but happy at the same time since it meant that it worked! onto the point, after the trail run i went to the gym to try to repeat the circuit as best i could. i had worn my I Beat John Curley shirt out running because i love the shirt and i think its funny, and gosh darn it, i beat him, so why not let the world know. i walked into the gym and the girl at the front desk called out to me all excited about my shirt. she asked if i really did beat him, to which i could proudly say YES and then we had a quick conversation about which race, etc. i then went to the locker room and changed the shirt.
today i went for a trail run and then stopped at the gym to do a core workout. on new years eve, janet and i went to the VO2 performance center for a core circuit class. i had a suspicion that the core work i was already doing might not be sufficient so i wanted to take a class and see how it went. the class was fun, there were 5 stations with 2 exercises at each. i broke a sweat which i was surprised by but never felt totally spent. ok, except the one where you hold onto the 4 pound ball and twist side to side. i thought my arms were going to fall off. but the following morning, i sure felt the workout. i was totally sore all over the place. i was surprised and but happy at the same time since it meant that it worked! onto the point, after the trail run i went to the gym to try to repeat the circuit as best i could. i had worn my I Beat John Curley shirt out running because i love the shirt and i think its funny, and gosh darn it, i beat him, so why not let the world know. i walked into the gym and the girl at the front desk called out to me all excited about my shirt. she asked if i really did beat him, to which i could proudly say YES and then we had a quick conversation about which race, etc. i then went to the locker room and changed the shirt.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
and a few more
one thing that i am so sad about is that seamus now pronounces icecream correctly. for a long time it was asscream and it always made me laugh.
and next, i don't care if the kitchen sponge is the dirtiest thing around, dirtier that the toilet seat or money (two of the other top 5). know why? because its unlikely that any of the dirty things they picked up on the sponge had to do with arse, while the other two, you totally know were covered in it.
and next, i don't care if the kitchen sponge is the dirtiest thing around, dirtier that the toilet seat or money (two of the other top 5). know why? because its unlikely that any of the dirty things they picked up on the sponge had to do with arse, while the other two, you totally know were covered in it.
Monday, December 28, 2009
and another one
oh, yeah, and to emphisise the universe's message to me, it all actually started a few weeks back when i was at the 7 store pulling jeans to try on. the sales guy came up to me and offered this "we usually suggest jeans with a wider leg to women who are uh, taller." at the time i thought he was trying to protect me from getting jeans that were too young for me, but now i think maybe he was trying to keep me from making a horrible mistake.
onto other things, yesterday sirus and i were standing in line at eddie bauer getting ready to buy the warmest most awesomest puffy coat ever. i decided that maybe i would retire the puffy vest but when i told eric he said i should keep it, at least for a while since getting ride of it would mean it was an end of an era. and leslie showed me her awesome new coat and even let me try it on and i totally loved it so i had to go get one. while we were in line there was a little blonde girl running around who was probaly not even 2. sirus kept an eye on her, following her everywhere she went. when she and her family left, sirus said in a very serious voice "i fell in love with that little girl." i was just like, excuse, me, what did you say? and he repeated it. later in the car i told eric and then i asked sirus how he knew he was falling in love with her and he said "i don't know." we then did some more shopping and stopped to get batteries. sirus was holding the batteries in the car, and eric offered up the hypothetical situation to sirus "if you were in a burning buidling with the little girl and the batteries, which would you grab as you ran out?" sirus thought long and hard and decided on the batteries.
onto other things, yesterday sirus and i were standing in line at eddie bauer getting ready to buy the warmest most awesomest puffy coat ever. i decided that maybe i would retire the puffy vest but when i told eric he said i should keep it, at least for a while since getting ride of it would mean it was an end of an era. and leslie showed me her awesome new coat and even let me try it on and i totally loved it so i had to go get one. while we were in line there was a little blonde girl running around who was probaly not even 2. sirus kept an eye on her, following her everywhere she went. when she and her family left, sirus said in a very serious voice "i fell in love with that little girl." i was just like, excuse, me, what did you say? and he repeated it. later in the car i told eric and then i asked sirus how he knew he was falling in love with her and he said "i don't know." we then did some more shopping and stopped to get batteries. sirus was holding the batteries in the car, and eric offered up the hypothetical situation to sirus "if you were in a burning buidling with the little girl and the batteries, which would you grab as you ran out?" sirus thought long and hard and decided on the batteries.
Saturday, December 26, 2009
is someone trying to tell me something?
"move sirus, mommy needs to see if she looks fat in those jeans!" - seamus at the nordstrom dressing room this afternoon. (for the record, i did not!)
size of jacket that was xmas present: XL, apparently because i have "long arms". its better than the size XXL shirt the same peeps gave me once because I am "so tall".
overheard the other evening: "those girls at the liquor store made Carrie look fat."
i know i haven't been training much and the holiday sweets have been plentiful, but is it really that obvious?
size of jacket that was xmas present: XL, apparently because i have "long arms". its better than the size XXL shirt the same peeps gave me once because I am "so tall".
overheard the other evening: "those girls at the liquor store made Carrie look fat."
i know i haven't been training much and the holiday sweets have been plentiful, but is it really that obvious?
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
wow, and i thot i was gross!
i was at the gym today, doing a little stairmaster. i realized i've run like 3 miles in december or something like that and i am OK with it. this stairmastering is going to get me an arse like a teenage girl again, so i am totally stoked. not that my teenaged arse was ever that great, but my old lady arse is really no good. i told my coach that my arse shape is one of the things i want to work on this year.
but yeah, so the stairmaster will kick your ass all up and down the gym. i use the one where the stairs move under you. and i sweat a ton. but today there was a guy next to me. he was older, maybe like 50s or so, and he was making all kinds of noises. a few times i had to look over to make sure he was ok because he sounded terrible. he was moaning and groaning like nothing i have ever heard before at the gym! he was working hard, his cadence was higher than mine but geez! and then when he was done i looked over and his whole stairmaster was drenched! like puddles and stuff, all over it. like someone sprayed it down with a hose. totally gross. he did do a good job cleaning it up and right away some other dude jumped right on it with his gf or someone on the one next to him. he normally doesn't come to the gym on the weekend since he always goes mtn biking and the stairmaster that he is used to has tiny steps and his foot is hurt and they are thinking about taking a walk to the pcc tomorrow. she'll skip the gym she thinks since it will be a few miles of walking.
then i did some assisted pullups. and a friend signed me up for masters starting jan 4! dude, that is going to be one rough monday morning! 5am alarm, outdoor pool, monday, and first day back at work after almost two weeks off. yikes!!!
but yeah, so the stairmaster will kick your ass all up and down the gym. i use the one where the stairs move under you. and i sweat a ton. but today there was a guy next to me. he was older, maybe like 50s or so, and he was making all kinds of noises. a few times i had to look over to make sure he was ok because he sounded terrible. he was moaning and groaning like nothing i have ever heard before at the gym! he was working hard, his cadence was higher than mine but geez! and then when he was done i looked over and his whole stairmaster was drenched! like puddles and stuff, all over it. like someone sprayed it down with a hose. totally gross. he did do a good job cleaning it up and right away some other dude jumped right on it with his gf or someone on the one next to him. he normally doesn't come to the gym on the weekend since he always goes mtn biking and the stairmaster that he is used to has tiny steps and his foot is hurt and they are thinking about taking a walk to the pcc tomorrow. she'll skip the gym she thinks since it will be a few miles of walking.
then i did some assisted pullups. and a friend signed me up for masters starting jan 4! dude, that is going to be one rough monday morning! 5am alarm, outdoor pool, monday, and first day back at work after almost two weeks off. yikes!!!
Sunday, December 20, 2009
now scoot
mama's hung.
good grief, its been a long time. luckily, its not too bad.
so we went to a party last night. i was happy to wear my new 100% pink sequin dress. LOVE IT. since it is SEE THROUGH i wore it over a black tube dress, yes i own a black tube dress, tights and boots. fancy. it was fun. we brought our own lemon drops and i drank probably 40 of them.
this morning i was feeling a little crappay. i had some breakfast and drank some coffee and while i sat on the couch i felt pretty good. so we decided to take a family trip to the gym. that is where it all started to fall apart.
we got to the gym and parked next to the red cadilac that was running, had the key in the ignition but had no one in or near it. i took a photo of the license plate and gave it to the front desk. the girl joked - sweet, i'll go take it. but alas, the car was still there and still running when we left almost 2hrs later.
eric and i got on the stairmasters, only this time i brought a bottle of water and a little towel to join me.
i was dying. i started at the same level as last time but it was killing me. i eventually had to drop down 2 levels while eric on the otherhand was sprinting up his stairs. i was sweating out the booze but it wasn't making me feel very good.
then we went to go to some pullups! i took the assistance a little higher and managed 2 sets of 10 but then i wanted to throw up so i went to the locker room and lounged in one of the lounge chairs for a while.
we did some quick shopping then headed home where i went straight to bed for a few hours!
good grief, its been a long time. luckily, its not too bad.
so we went to a party last night. i was happy to wear my new 100% pink sequin dress. LOVE IT. since it is SEE THROUGH i wore it over a black tube dress, yes i own a black tube dress, tights and boots. fancy. it was fun. we brought our own lemon drops and i drank probably 40 of them.
this morning i was feeling a little crappay. i had some breakfast and drank some coffee and while i sat on the couch i felt pretty good. so we decided to take a family trip to the gym. that is where it all started to fall apart.
we got to the gym and parked next to the red cadilac that was running, had the key in the ignition but had no one in or near it. i took a photo of the license plate and gave it to the front desk. the girl joked - sweet, i'll go take it. but alas, the car was still there and still running when we left almost 2hrs later.
eric and i got on the stairmasters, only this time i brought a bottle of water and a little towel to join me.
i was dying. i started at the same level as last time but it was killing me. i eventually had to drop down 2 levels while eric on the otherhand was sprinting up his stairs. i was sweating out the booze but it wasn't making me feel very good.
then we went to go to some pullups! i took the assistance a little higher and managed 2 sets of 10 but then i wanted to throw up so i went to the locker room and lounged in one of the lounge chairs for a while.
we did some quick shopping then headed home where i went straight to bed for a few hours!
Saturday, December 19, 2009
check it
check here
went for a ride out in the rain today. it was the first time i have been outside in a bike since maui. wore some sweet new gear that totally kept me dry in the rain. i was warm while i was riding but now am shivering up a storm.
i also went swimming! it was pretty fun except my shoulders, or some part of them were pretty tight. maybe it was my totally huge pectoral muscles.
the other day i decided to see if i could do a pull up. i was at the gym at work, getting ready run on the treadmill, so i gave it a try. i had palms facing away and got to where the bar was about eye level. i thought that was pretty good. then i did my run and i decided to try it again. this time i had my palms facing me and i did a full pull up!! yes, only one and the easy way, but that is way more than i thought i could do. i was prety stoked. the other day eric and i were at the gym falling off of the stairmaster and after we went to the assisted pullup machine. i did 3x5 at various levels of assistance. i am totally going to get this down so i can just whip them out whenever i want. but i do think this was partially the cause of my peck discomfort. my forearms are sore,too. yikes! the stairmaster wsa gross. ok so i looooove to sweat. like give me a hot day and a run and let the dripping happen. its also part of the reason i like the treadmill. but this stairmaster adventure was almost too much. i had pools of sweat forming on my hands. i had rivers of sweat dripping down the sides of the machine. i had to hold on to the railing since i was tripping so much, but it was nasty. thank goodness it was my own juices because i dont think i could have handled someone elses. i did try to do a good clean up job on it when i was done, so hopefully that was ok.
went for a ride out in the rain today. it was the first time i have been outside in a bike since maui. wore some sweet new gear that totally kept me dry in the rain. i was warm while i was riding but now am shivering up a storm.
i also went swimming! it was pretty fun except my shoulders, or some part of them were pretty tight. maybe it was my totally huge pectoral muscles.
the other day i decided to see if i could do a pull up. i was at the gym at work, getting ready run on the treadmill, so i gave it a try. i had palms facing away and got to where the bar was about eye level. i thought that was pretty good. then i did my run and i decided to try it again. this time i had my palms facing me and i did a full pull up!! yes, only one and the easy way, but that is way more than i thought i could do. i was prety stoked. the other day eric and i were at the gym falling off of the stairmaster and after we went to the assisted pullup machine. i did 3x5 at various levels of assistance. i am totally going to get this down so i can just whip them out whenever i want. but i do think this was partially the cause of my peck discomfort. my forearms are sore,too. yikes! the stairmaster wsa gross. ok so i looooove to sweat. like give me a hot day and a run and let the dripping happen. its also part of the reason i like the treadmill. but this stairmaster adventure was almost too much. i had pools of sweat forming on my hands. i had rivers of sweat dripping down the sides of the machine. i had to hold on to the railing since i was tripping so much, but it was nasty. thank goodness it was my own juices because i dont think i could have handled someone elses. i did try to do a good clean up job on it when i was done, so hopefully that was ok.
Monday, December 07, 2009
2009 stats
i did a 2008 stats so i thot maybe i would do a 2009 stats as a follow up. of course it won't be all of 2009 since its only the 6th, but i am so excited i just can't wait until 2010 to do it. so here goes.
906 visit and 1208 pageviews (compared to 801 and 1220 in 2008).
visitors came from all over the place, i put last years ranking in ( )
United States (1) - visits came from 18 different states!
Brazil (11)
United Kingdom (3)
France (12)
Japan - new!
India (4)
Canada (2)
Columbia- new!
Czech Republic- new!
Taiwan- new!
Poland- new!
Australia (10)
Germany- new!
Spain- new!
Malaysia- new!
Mexico (5)
Denmark- new!
People from these countries hate me and decided to not visit this year:
Singapore (6)
Portugal (7)
China (8)
Jamaica (9)
Indonesia (13)
no suprise, most of the visits came directly, probably because most of the visits were ME. but some came from referring sites and some came from keywords.
Here is the 2009 list, interestingly lulu pawpi, versions of "wanting his toenails painted" and arse massage all made the list again. at least this time there is no "maxi pad" +pee squirt
lulu pawpi
"wanted his toenails"
sparklinglady blog
"blogspot.com" "footie pjs" "2009/2"
"cottage lake triathlon", september 2009
"wanted his toenails
"wanted his toenails "
"wanted his toenails painted"
arsemassage
completing in my first triathlon afriad of the swim
eric stoltz
lake stevens ironman parking
site:blogspot.com/2009/06 peeing wetsuit
whidbey mudder
xterra portland timing
906 visit and 1208 pageviews (compared to 801 and 1220 in 2008).
visitors came from all over the place, i put last years ranking in ( )
United States (1) - visits came from 18 different states!
Brazil (11)
United Kingdom (3)
France (12)
Japan - new!
India (4)
Canada (2)
Columbia- new!
Czech Republic- new!
Taiwan- new!
Poland- new!
Australia (10)
Germany- new!
Spain- new!
Malaysia- new!
Mexico (5)
Denmark- new!
People from these countries hate me and decided to not visit this year:
Singapore (6)
Portugal (7)
China (8)
Jamaica (9)
Indonesia (13)
no suprise, most of the visits came directly, probably because most of the visits were ME. but some came from referring sites and some came from keywords.
Here is the 2009 list, interestingly lulu pawpi, versions of "wanting his toenails painted" and arse massage all made the list again. at least this time there is no "maxi pad" +pee squirt
lulu pawpi
"wanted his toenails"
sparklinglady blog
"blogspot.com" "footie pjs" "2009/2"
"cottage lake triathlon", september 2009
"wanted his toenails
"wanted his toenails "
"wanted his toenails painted"
arsemassage
completing in my first triathlon afriad of the swim
eric stoltz
lake stevens ironman parking
site:blogspot.com/2009/06 peeing wetsuit
whidbey mudder
xterra portland timing
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
Sunday, November 29, 2009
santa claus
sirus and i spent the day together, just the two of us. we went shopping. we got there earl and the stores weren't open yet so we went to the play area. sirus was standing on top of the maydenbauer when the jungle bells started ringing. i saw sirus start waving and looked over to see santa over by the elevators waving back. none of the other kids noticed but sirus jumped down and ran over to let me know he saw santa.
later at dinner seamus was telling us how santa was going to know that sirus was crying about a remote control car he wants because santa knows these things. yeah, so then i told her santa knew all about how she was saying just yesterday how she hated me. to that she replied that santa was sleeping when she said that and didn't hear it. she went on to say that santa actually sleeps quite a bit. NO HE DOES NOT!
sirus and i had a fun time shopping though. after the play area we went to a bunch of stores and he flirted with the sales girls. then we went to the apple store. sirus really wanted to play a game on the computer there. we had already discussed that we would go to the play area again so i told him that he could either play the game or go back to the play aread. he said he wanted to play the game. after a while we were done and i said we had one more store to go to. after that one store sirus suggested that we go to another store and then another. he then said, how about we go to a few more and then to the play area. he was totally playing me. but we did it. it was a loooong day of shopping and we had fun, little guy totally passed out in the car on the way home.
later at dinner seamus was telling us how santa was going to know that sirus was crying about a remote control car he wants because santa knows these things. yeah, so then i told her santa knew all about how she was saying just yesterday how she hated me. to that she replied that santa was sleeping when she said that and didn't hear it. she went on to say that santa actually sleeps quite a bit. NO HE DOES NOT!
sirus and i had a fun time shopping though. after the play area we went to a bunch of stores and he flirted with the sales girls. then we went to the apple store. sirus really wanted to play a game on the computer there. we had already discussed that we would go to the play area again so i told him that he could either play the game or go back to the play aread. he said he wanted to play the game. after a while we were done and i said we had one more store to go to. after that one store sirus suggested that we go to another store and then another. he then said, how about we go to a few more and then to the play area. he was totally playing me. but we did it. it was a loooong day of shopping and we had fun, little guy totally passed out in the car on the way home.
Saturday, November 28, 2009
hot so hot
thanksgiving was the other day. on tuesday sirus went to pre-school. his teacher asked him what he is thankful and without even thinking, he said he was thankful for Seamus. i love those kids. seamus was screaming not too long ago how she was so mad at me and that she would't ever cuddle with me again. then in like 2 minutes she was cozied up against me pulling my arm around her. we had a low key thanksgiving for us. eric made the best turkey i have ever had. we are trying to figure out why it was so good. we imagine probably because it was pumped full of hormones and saline and crap, but damn it was good. 
it was tiny, too! we had some stuffing, i made some homemade apple sauce that seamus said tasted funny, and the kids helped me make some homemade cranberry sauce. it was a little not good at first, but after sitting in the fridge all day it was damn tasty. we also made butter!! the one thanksgiving staple that we didn't have was mashed potatoes - and no gravy either. it was just the 4 of us this year, grandma was in vegas visiting uncle rick, grandma and grandpa were in vegas visting aunt tacy, and aunt xtie was in portangeles with jon's fam. it was nice and mellow, but we did watch waaaaay too many movies and played waaaay too many video games. and check out the sweet homeimprovements going on behind sirus in that photos. 
what a mess. ugh, now i am trying to decide what to do. should i do the duathlon on th 13th? it involves a 7.2 mile run followed by i dunno, 4 laps of some course. it could be fun, but it also could be a really long run, or it could be raining, or it could be cold, or it could be all of those things combined. there is also a 5k coming up that might be fun to do, too, but we went running yesterday and we went slow but i was dying. ok, not dying just not going very fast although i was sweating like a pig despite it being 40 degrees out. by the end of the run was in just my knickers and a light longsleeve. apparently i should have just had that on to start with, or something. i have actually been swimming about once a week since maui. i had originally intended to take a month off from swimming, or maybe even two, but allie suggested not doing that. i don't know if i mentioned her very wise words of breaks from swimming can be addictive, so to keep from that, i have gone at least once a week. its been nice since the pool is indoors and warm, but its also been killing me. i struggle to get through 1500meters. struggle. this morning i had good intentions of going for 2000 but yeah, after about 200 i was like, ok, maybe just 1500. i have been told that this actually isn't that bad considering how warm the water is and stuff. i am going pretty fast when i'm actually swimming but i'm just not going for very long at any given time. we are so going to get sucked into some longer term membership there though because the kids love going so much. this morning we asked if they wanted to go and i haven't ever seen the kids get their shoes and coats on so quickly! after, eric went for a bike ride but the kids and i went for a walk to you guessed it, mcdonalds. its a little over a mile away, so we bundled up - i had on a longsleeve-T, a longsleeve fleece, a sweatshirt, my puffy vest, a scarf and a hat, and we walked on down. we had a 100% all natural, unprocessed meal of chicken nuggets and apple slices and then the kdis played for about an hour while i read my trashy celebrity gossip magazine. we did have two potty breaks while the kids were playing, too. then we bundled back up, walked to the bike shop to talk to matt about flip turnes then walked the mile home. seamus wanted to race up the hill, but sirus's legs hurt, so i picked him up and ran uphill chacing seamus. that did not last very long. right before we turned into our neighborhood, eric came riding up on his bike, which explains why he didn't answer his phone when i called him in hopes that maybe he would come and pick us up. yesterday, seamus and i raced through the trails behind the house and by golly, she legitimately beat me, i couldn't beleive it. she totally blocked me while were were going up the hill, too, everytime i moved over to pass her she would move and block! and then she just let it all out on the downhill! and she was wearing clogs, i was in running shoes. unbeleiveable. i would have passed her if we would have kept going though. :)
it was tiny, too! we had some stuffing, i made some homemade apple sauce that seamus said tasted funny, and the kids helped me make some homemade cranberry sauce. it was a little not good at first, but after sitting in the fridge all day it was damn tasty. we also made butter!! the one thanksgiving staple that we didn't have was mashed potatoes - and no gravy either. it was just the 4 of us this year, grandma was in vegas visiting uncle rick, grandma and grandpa were in vegas visting aunt tacy, and aunt xtie was in portangeles with jon's fam. it was nice and mellow, but we did watch waaaaay too many movies and played waaaay too many video games. and check out the sweet homeimprovements going on behind sirus in that photos. 
what a mess. ugh, now i am trying to decide what to do. should i do the duathlon on th 13th? it involves a 7.2 mile run followed by i dunno, 4 laps of some course. it could be fun, but it also could be a really long run, or it could be raining, or it could be cold, or it could be all of those things combined. there is also a 5k coming up that might be fun to do, too, but we went running yesterday and we went slow but i was dying. ok, not dying just not going very fast although i was sweating like a pig despite it being 40 degrees out. by the end of the run was in just my knickers and a light longsleeve. apparently i should have just had that on to start with, or something. i have actually been swimming about once a week since maui. i had originally intended to take a month off from swimming, or maybe even two, but allie suggested not doing that. i don't know if i mentioned her very wise words of breaks from swimming can be addictive, so to keep from that, i have gone at least once a week. its been nice since the pool is indoors and warm, but its also been killing me. i struggle to get through 1500meters. struggle. this morning i had good intentions of going for 2000 but yeah, after about 200 i was like, ok, maybe just 1500. i have been told that this actually isn't that bad considering how warm the water is and stuff. i am going pretty fast when i'm actually swimming but i'm just not going for very long at any given time. we are so going to get sucked into some longer term membership there though because the kids love going so much. this morning we asked if they wanted to go and i haven't ever seen the kids get their shoes and coats on so quickly! after, eric went for a bike ride but the kids and i went for a walk to you guessed it, mcdonalds. its a little over a mile away, so we bundled up - i had on a longsleeve-T, a longsleeve fleece, a sweatshirt, my puffy vest, a scarf and a hat, and we walked on down. we had a 100% all natural, unprocessed meal of chicken nuggets and apple slices and then the kdis played for about an hour while i read my trashy celebrity gossip magazine. we did have two potty breaks while the kids were playing, too. then we bundled back up, walked to the bike shop to talk to matt about flip turnes then walked the mile home. seamus wanted to race up the hill, but sirus's legs hurt, so i picked him up and ran uphill chacing seamus. that did not last very long. right before we turned into our neighborhood, eric came riding up on his bike, which explains why he didn't answer his phone when i called him in hopes that maybe he would come and pick us up. yesterday, seamus and i raced through the trails behind the house and by golly, she legitimately beat me, i couldn't beleive it. she totally blocked me while were were going up the hill, too, everytime i moved over to pass her she would move and block! and then she just let it all out on the downhill! and she was wearing clogs, i was in running shoes. unbeleiveable. i would have passed her if we would have kept going though. :)
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