our flight was 1pmish on friday. we got to the airport with plenty of time, checked in at the sky cap, got through security and went to the gate. then they changed the gate. then it was delayed. then we got on the plane and found out that not only must car seats be by the window (which ruined all my seating arangements plans) but they stuck us in a row on the wing. apparently no car seats on the wing either.
the flight was good. at one point we hit some turbulance and seamus told me all about how it made her tummy hurt.
as we started to descend sirus fell asleep.
our layover had gone from 1 hr down to 15 minutes. we had to get off the plane, catch a shuttle, transfer to a different shuttle, change terminals, and run run run!! grandma was dragging poor little sirus, which was quite funny because his legs are just so short. but we got there and got on the plane and took off. this flight was good, too.
once again as we started to descend, sirus fell asleep.
then we got off the plane and headed to baggage claim where we saw charles the neighbor who was also coming out for the race and we saw bruce from bend, who was there for the race, too. charles took eric's bike, eric went to get the car and the kids, grandma and i gathered all the luggage and waited. the computers were down at car rental, so we had to wait an extra forever.
5 seconds into the car ride and both kids were OUT.
got to the condo and it was about 3042387 degrees. the kids slept through it all, got them in their jammies and put them in their beds.
eric went to the grocery store and spent $45 on milk, eggs, pb&j, bread. milk was $6.00!!! Bread was $5.00. I had to yell a little asking if he went to the 7-11 or something but no, hawaii is expensive.
grandma and sirus bunked together, seamus, eric and i shared. we all went to sleep.
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Monday, November 05, 2007
since i'm not embarassed
eric is funny. ya know in that way that isn't so funny, ya know that way where a birthday hickey is only funny to the one who doesn't have to go to work with it. so, i was out in the ocean there in hawaii and he grabbed the camera to get some bikini shots. oh joy. just what i love more then anything.
but because i am not embarrassed, here is the photo:
but the best part and what makes me ok with the whole thing is when you zoom in, this is what is happening up close:
but because i am not embarrassed, here is the photo:
but the best part and what makes me ok with the whole thing is when you zoom in, this is what is happening up close:
chocolate cake
so, earlier in the month, before becoming part of the throughth3wallchallenge, i had made a quick food log to document the crap that i eat on a daily basis. i mentioned some chocolate cake. the reason there was chocolate cake was because a guy i work with not only had an incredible marathon pr of 2:18 but at the same time qualified for the olympic trials in NYC this past weekend. so absolutley amazing. as i grow older i find it fascinating and reassuring that people who are amazing athletes or who hold high power positions in the corporate world are just like me. and you even. they are normal ordinary people. i have met my share of both types and ya know, they are just normal people who do interesting things. i try to do my best in both of those areas so it gives me reassurance that while people do have special gifts that may help them be extra amazing, they are normal, too. realizing this has helped me imensly in the past year to overcome HUGE obsticales at work. i am now public speaker extraordinare. ok, maybe not, but really, i can do it and i am fine.
on that note, i did some super modeling this past weekend. i was feeling old when i showed up there and the people doing hair and makeup didn't want to do my hair since it was short, until this lady came along and put in pin curls and made it all 1940's which i loved, then when all the girls were wearing grey and black and red with leather hand bags, they put me in this super frumpy mustard yellow dress with a canvas bag that said to kiss my canvas. all outfit changes after that were good though. i am going to try to dig up some photos from it.
there is lots to tell about the trip to hawaii. a few quick comments though, it was hot, the kids had a blast at the beach, we got to see cheri and we want to go back. even the redeye flight back was ok. we managed back to the house by noonishon saturday and sirus went down for a nap probably around 3pm and didn't wake up until 8am on sunday! he was a tired little guy! more about the trip and the races later.
on that note, i did some super modeling this past weekend. i was feeling old when i showed up there and the people doing hair and makeup didn't want to do my hair since it was short, until this lady came along and put in pin curls and made it all 1940's which i loved, then when all the girls were wearing grey and black and red with leather hand bags, they put me in this super frumpy mustard yellow dress with a canvas bag that said to kiss my canvas. all outfit changes after that were good though. i am going to try to dig up some photos from it.
there is lots to tell about the trip to hawaii. a few quick comments though, it was hot, the kids had a blast at the beach, we got to see cheri and we want to go back. even the redeye flight back was ok. we managed back to the house by noonishon saturday and sirus went down for a nap probably around 3pm and didn't wake up until 8am on sunday! he was a tired little guy! more about the trip and the races later.
Sunday, November 04, 2007
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
short cut not so short
so my commute sucks. balls. the suck ballsiest part of it is the first 2.5 miles of it in the morning. at my old job, i still had to do that same first2.5 miles but i left considerably earlier and had no traffic woes. but ya know, i am just too damn tired to get up and leave the house by 6:15 every morning. so now i sleep in until 7 which is nice because that is when everyone at the house is up. its much better to start my day with some baby hugs and kisses. because i leave later when everyone else is leaving, i sit in traffic trying to get onto the freeway. so i have come up with a short cut that actually adds an extra 3/4 mile or so to the trip but if its gets me there quicker then hey. so today i have found that at least today, my short cut is no quicker. just as i was changing lanes to go toward the short cut i saw a lime green honda element stuck in the traffic. i said, ewww, why would someone get one of those in that color? then i went on my merry way. as i was finlly merging onto the freeway the honda element came right up beside me. hmmm. i don't know how i feel about that.
Sunday, October 14, 2007
throughth3wallchallenge
i am participating in a keep fit over the winter challenge. its being run by iron wil who i am totally loving right now. i discovered her blog a month or so ago and got totally sucked into her account of her experience with ironman. so i signed up for the challenge, only days after talking about how a food log is a bad idea for me since i eat so much crap all the time. well, having a public log is much more effective then putting it in excel or somewhere where no one would ever look. as a result i have managed to realy curb the poopy chocolate consumption. i'll tell you what will really curb it will be when all the kids are all potty trained and go poopy in the potty because that is part of life and not going poopy in the potty just for some chocolate. eric brings home the big 1/2 pound bars ALL the time. he did before there was any potty training to be had but back then i was never tempted. now its totally pavlovian for me, any time a kid poops, i need some chocolate, too.
i have been sick and having the insomnia all week. tylonol pm is my new friend, but i was able to fall asleep on my own last night. i contribute my insomnia to a several things, because it hit about this same time last year, too. its either the time of year, work or my cloggs.
today i ran a 10k race. i wasn't sure what to expect. i did as well as i was hoping to - hit my goal, not my super stretch goal but my goal which was good. a few times i was thinking that maybe i should just stop. but i kept going and even managed to run the 6th mile in 7:15 which i was pretty suprised by! i am exhausted now though, partially because of the race and partially because we walked the two miles to the race, then i warmed up for about 1.5 miles then we walked the two miles home, UP HILL.
now i've got seamus on my lap, she is not wanting to take a nap but she really really needs to.
oh, we are heading to hawaii here pretty soon, which is pretty exhausting, too, but exciting none the less.
i have been sick and having the insomnia all week. tylonol pm is my new friend, but i was able to fall asleep on my own last night. i contribute my insomnia to a several things, because it hit about this same time last year, too. its either the time of year, work or my cloggs.
today i ran a 10k race. i wasn't sure what to expect. i did as well as i was hoping to - hit my goal, not my super stretch goal but my goal which was good. a few times i was thinking that maybe i should just stop. but i kept going and even managed to run the 6th mile in 7:15 which i was pretty suprised by! i am exhausted now though, partially because of the race and partially because we walked the two miles to the race, then i warmed up for about 1.5 miles then we walked the two miles home, UP HILL.
now i've got seamus on my lap, she is not wanting to take a nap but she really really needs to.
oh, we are heading to hawaii here pretty soon, which is pretty exhausting, too, but exciting none the less.
Tuesday, October 09, 2007
food log
i read a lot on fitness and health and diet sites that keeping a food log is a good idea. i will show you why this is not a god idea when it comes to me as this is what i had today:
1 peanut butter and jelly sandwich
1 americano
1 venti water
four (4) 4! pieces of pizza with giant roasted garlic cloves on them. tasty but stinky
1 venti water
another venti water
2 brautworsts
a coffee cup of granola cereal with mostly water but a splash of 2 days over the "best before" date of skim milk for color
way more poopy chocolate than anyone should really have
i thought i was done, but thenn eric and the kids came home with icecream. so i had to have some of that.
that was today. yesterday was even better:
1 peanut butter and jelly sandwich
1 americano
1 venti water
1 granola bar
1 giant slice of chocolate cake that someone brought to work and left on the table outside my office
1 venti water
1 and 1/2 grilled chicken breasts with lots o garlic
4 pieces of the tastiest bacon ever
1 and 1/2 bowls of rasin bran/granola cereal mix with mostly water but a splash of 1 day over the "best before" date of skim milk for color
dude, too much poopy chocolate
did i have a beer? i don't remember but i did have another venti water that when eric brought it to me he said he had put the straw up his arse, ya know, for flavor.
it might be a good idea to lay off the poopy chocolate, the way fattening cured meat products and maybe have a veggie or two other than garlic. its a good thing that i at least drink a decent amount of water.
1 peanut butter and jelly sandwich
1 americano
1 venti water
four (4) 4! pieces of pizza with giant roasted garlic cloves on them. tasty but stinky
1 venti water
another venti water
2 brautworsts
a coffee cup of granola cereal with mostly water but a splash of 2 days over the "best before" date of skim milk for color
way more poopy chocolate than anyone should really have
i thought i was done, but thenn eric and the kids came home with icecream. so i had to have some of that.
that was today. yesterday was even better:
1 peanut butter and jelly sandwich
1 americano
1 venti water
1 granola bar
1 giant slice of chocolate cake that someone brought to work and left on the table outside my office
1 venti water
1 and 1/2 grilled chicken breasts with lots o garlic
4 pieces of the tastiest bacon ever
1 and 1/2 bowls of rasin bran/granola cereal mix with mostly water but a splash of 1 day over the "best before" date of skim milk for color
dude, too much poopy chocolate
did i have a beer? i don't remember but i did have another venti water that when eric brought it to me he said he had put the straw up his arse, ya know, for flavor.
it might be a good idea to lay off the poopy chocolate, the way fattening cured meat products and maybe have a veggie or two other than garlic. its a good thing that i at least drink a decent amount of water.
Thursday, October 04, 2007
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
baby boy isn't a baby any mo'
today is sirus's 2nd bday. do you remember this? i barely do. i can go on an on how much of a cutie he but he just is. we had a little bday party for him over the weekend and invited the cousins. it was a pirate themed party but he had a car shaped cake. then today for his actual birthday eric brought the kids out to my work and we went for a run together. in the rain. in the cold. in the wind. it kicked my arse. the guy at the grocery store told me it snowed 7 inches in the mountains today. that is no suprise, especially not to any of those stuck in the rediculous traffic today. apparently its hard to drive when it is cold out. i tried heading out of work at 4 but didn't get out until after 5 then rolled into the door at 630. we had some ballons and an icecream cake and a few presents, it is his birthday afterall.
what else? work is totally stressing me out. its good, but its exhausting.
and we head to hawaii in 23 days!! that stresses me out a little, too. when i reminded eric of is he puffed out his stomach and made the comment of how he is oh so ready to race at the world championships, which is funny. he will race and he will finish and hopefully it wil be fun for him. i am thinking of doing the 10k trail run the day before which goes through a "spooky forest". we will be in maui for halloween, so we are taking the kid's costumes and they will do their halloween action all maui style.
eric got a playstation 3 which i don't know how i feel about it. he rented fantastic 4 the silver surfer, but it wasn't. it was the first one. so he returned it and rented the real silver surfer. i have never had any interest in seeing this movie.
i do however like the show house. i am quite tickled that kumar is going to be on house's team. they are planning a harold and kumar go to white castle sequel which when i tried to reference NPH i said JHK instead. eric laughed at me.
what else? work is totally stressing me out. its good, but its exhausting.
and we head to hawaii in 23 days!! that stresses me out a little, too. when i reminded eric of is he puffed out his stomach and made the comment of how he is oh so ready to race at the world championships, which is funny. he will race and he will finish and hopefully it wil be fun for him. i am thinking of doing the 10k trail run the day before which goes through a "spooky forest". we will be in maui for halloween, so we are taking the kid's costumes and they will do their halloween action all maui style.
eric got a playstation 3 which i don't know how i feel about it. he rented fantastic 4 the silver surfer, but it wasn't. it was the first one. so he returned it and rented the real silver surfer. i have never had any interest in seeing this movie.
i do however like the show house. i am quite tickled that kumar is going to be on house's team. they are planning a harold and kumar go to white castle sequel which when i tried to reference NPH i said JHK instead. eric laughed at me.
Sunday, September 16, 2007
posting some more
so last night i had a dream where i was trying to fly to detroit. there were no direct flights so i had a layover in some place that then should have been only a 45 minute commuter flight to detroit, but the whole thing was going to be 12 hrs. the one part of the trip that was all fine and good was that tommy lee was on the flight. he was wearing a mint green camisole and had a a matching sweater but wasn't wearing it. when i asked him about why he was wearing a camilsole he said someone had given it to him, someone who was important to him but who was sick or who had died or something and he said, hey, it fits, he will wear it. he was still damn hot, even in a mint green camisole with a built in shelf bra.
stupid movie part 2
when resident evil came out how ever many years back i agreed to go see it with eric because i wanted to see mila jovavich or whatever kick some ass. i wanted to see some totally kick ass bitch be a total bad ass. yeah, so the movie was terrible, gore for the sake of gore and just terrible. so terrible that i wanted to walk out of it. right now eric turned on resident evil part two (so the one coming out in theaters now is part 3? i can't even beleive it) and i had to make the comment of - wow, if i have the time to strap on all hose guns and ammo and stuff, i sure would take the time to put on some pants and probably a more functional top then a tub top. eric quickly came to the lady's defense saying that she was a cop and wasn't expecting to have to go to work that day, so of course she was going to wear that.
now, i really liked Shaun of the Dead. that was a good zombie movie.
now, i really liked Shaun of the Dead. that was a good zombie movie.
eric
eric gets mad at me when i eat cereal for dinner. so tonight i had a chocolate chip cookie heated in the microwave with vanilla ice cream on top of it. i feel like i have ice cream residue all over my mouth and reached over to my sleeve to wipe it off, but thne had a second thought - this shirt is clean and i plan on wearing it to sleep in, i better not start wiping residues on it yet. i will save that for tomorrow. now eric is eating the cookie with ice cream.
we went to yakima for the weekend. i like yakima, its eastern washington and its warm and in the county. while driving home today i had to think, maybe i should quit my job (what is wrong with charlie sheen's hair on the emmy's?) that totlally stresses me out and just get a normal job and eric can get a normal job too and we can go and get a house out in the middle of no where and just not care any more. it would be so nice. (what is wring with connan obrian's hair on the emmy's?) (why are they in such uncomfortable looking chairs?) it doesn't help that as soon as we got up into the mountains the weather got all crappy again.
seamus started preschool. she seems like she is liking it but i am not so sure how i feel about it. she and sirus also both started playing soccer. that they both seem to love. they get little uniforms which i think is funny. sirus is almost two which is crazy and i can't beleive it. he is growing up so fast, he and seamus both.
triathlon season for me is over for the year but i am trying to figure out what i am going to do over the winter and for next year. i ran the woodinville 1/2 marathon the other weekend, but did not break the 2 hr mark. i ws off by 56 seconds. but now i am going to actually train for a 1/2, meaning actually go on some training runs longer then 30 minutes. its all part of a master plan that i'm not ready to talk about right now. last year i ran seattle in 2:02, this year i will break 2 hrs and get over that mental road block then start planning the races to start chipping off the minutes. now if i just didn't have that pesky thing called work to get in the way of all my running. i also want to make sure to keep my swimming up over the winter. i haven't swam any since the lake sammamish tri but i am looking forward to a good season next year and probably another lake stevens 1/2 ironman.
and mezzie made my day, i think you are right about that lame lady at the playground.
we went to yakima for the weekend. i like yakima, its eastern washington and its warm and in the county. while driving home today i had to think, maybe i should quit my job (what is wrong with charlie sheen's hair on the emmy's?) that totlally stresses me out and just get a normal job and eric can get a normal job too and we can go and get a house out in the middle of no where and just not care any more. it would be so nice. (what is wring with connan obrian's hair on the emmy's?) (why are they in such uncomfortable looking chairs?) it doesn't help that as soon as we got up into the mountains the weather got all crappy again.
seamus started preschool. she seems like she is liking it but i am not so sure how i feel about it. she and sirus also both started playing soccer. that they both seem to love. they get little uniforms which i think is funny. sirus is almost two which is crazy and i can't beleive it. he is growing up so fast, he and seamus both.
triathlon season for me is over for the year but i am trying to figure out what i am going to do over the winter and for next year. i ran the woodinville 1/2 marathon the other weekend, but did not break the 2 hr mark. i ws off by 56 seconds. but now i am going to actually train for a 1/2, meaning actually go on some training runs longer then 30 minutes. its all part of a master plan that i'm not ready to talk about right now. last year i ran seattle in 2:02, this year i will break 2 hrs and get over that mental road block then start planning the races to start chipping off the minutes. now if i just didn't have that pesky thing called work to get in the way of all my running. i also want to make sure to keep my swimming up over the winter. i haven't swam any since the lake sammamish tri but i am looking forward to a good season next year and probably another lake stevens 1/2 ironman.
and mezzie made my day, i think you are right about that lame lady at the playground.
Saturday, September 08, 2007
not sure
so i have been getting up on the wrong side of the bed lately it seems. this past week, although it was a short week, i sure was having a bad day on thursday i think it may have been. or was it wednesday? i' not sure.
then there was today. everything was going well. we went for a family jog with feather and dave and gumball. the kids looooved that gumball was along for the run. they kept an eye on her the entire time and laughed and laughed. when we got home, eric took off to meet up with his buddies for a bike ride and the kids and i hung out and ust did our thing. they had lunch and then a little later everyone was ready for nap time. myself included.
when eric got home we went for a walk to the uvillage to get out of the house for a little and get some dinner. the kids and i went to the playground while eric went to get us dinner. now, granted i had done a 1/2 arsed job trying to put myself together before heading down there and i was just in shorts and a baggy sweatshirt but i did try to cover up all my zits and i tried to calm down my hair a bit (damn the hair and the awesome new doo. i need it cut again, its getting poofy and out of control, this is going to be an expensive upkeep) buti was there helping sirus climb the ladder, he is becoming quite the impressive ladder climber and then trying to remind seamus to take her turn when i caught some woman giving me a look. all of a sudden i got very self conscious, i cant even spell it. she was one of those east side women with the bleach blonde hair, fake tan, probably late 30s, maybe even early 30s but she was sut giving me the stare down. for some reason it made me feel very bad about myself and ruined the rest of the time there for me. eventually she left and i couldn't rationalize my feelings about the whole thing. finally when we were leaving, eric got me a hot chocolate from starbucks and the bad feelings started to leave. i told eric the whole thing and he said the only reason the lady was giving me the looks was because she couldnt beleive that i had two kids and was as damn hot as i am. ha. he makes me laugh. i did decide to agree with him, because he is probably right.
seamus and sirus started soccer this past week. i guess its pretty cute and they were both having a great time. seamus also started preschool on thursday. i took the morning off from work so that i could be there to drop her off. she started to cry on the way there because she didn't want us to walk her in, she just wanted us to drop her off and then leave. but we took her in, she found her very own cubby, put her snack in it and then went into the classroom. iwish i could be there to watch what she is up to all day. she didn't say much about preschool that evening other then that there were two slides, a kitchen and a shopping cart. she did bring home a painting which i hung on her wall for her.
sirus is talking more, still not a whole lot and most of it i can barely tell, but he is so funny. he loves wheres waldo, especially the pages with cars on them.
we are going to go for a family bike ride tomorrow. that wll be fun i think!
then there was today. everything was going well. we went for a family jog with feather and dave and gumball. the kids looooved that gumball was along for the run. they kept an eye on her the entire time and laughed and laughed. when we got home, eric took off to meet up with his buddies for a bike ride and the kids and i hung out and ust did our thing. they had lunch and then a little later everyone was ready for nap time. myself included.
when eric got home we went for a walk to the uvillage to get out of the house for a little and get some dinner. the kids and i went to the playground while eric went to get us dinner. now, granted i had done a 1/2 arsed job trying to put myself together before heading down there and i was just in shorts and a baggy sweatshirt but i did try to cover up all my zits and i tried to calm down my hair a bit (damn the hair and the awesome new doo. i need it cut again, its getting poofy and out of control, this is going to be an expensive upkeep) buti was there helping sirus climb the ladder, he is becoming quite the impressive ladder climber and then trying to remind seamus to take her turn when i caught some woman giving me a look. all of a sudden i got very self conscious, i cant even spell it. she was one of those east side women with the bleach blonde hair, fake tan, probably late 30s, maybe even early 30s but she was sut giving me the stare down. for some reason it made me feel very bad about myself and ruined the rest of the time there for me. eventually she left and i couldn't rationalize my feelings about the whole thing. finally when we were leaving, eric got me a hot chocolate from starbucks and the bad feelings started to leave. i told eric the whole thing and he said the only reason the lady was giving me the looks was because she couldnt beleive that i had two kids and was as damn hot as i am. ha. he makes me laugh. i did decide to agree with him, because he is probably right.
seamus and sirus started soccer this past week. i guess its pretty cute and they were both having a great time. seamus also started preschool on thursday. i took the morning off from work so that i could be there to drop her off. she started to cry on the way there because she didn't want us to walk her in, she just wanted us to drop her off and then leave. but we took her in, she found her very own cubby, put her snack in it and then went into the classroom. iwish i could be there to watch what she is up to all day. she didn't say much about preschool that evening other then that there were two slides, a kitchen and a shopping cart. she did bring home a painting which i hung on her wall for her.
sirus is talking more, still not a whole lot and most of it i can barely tell, but he is so funny. he loves wheres waldo, especially the pages with cars on them.
we are going to go for a family bike ride tomorrow. that wll be fun i think!
Friday, August 31, 2007
Monday, August 27, 2007
catch up
whoa! havne't posted since aug 4? has it been that long since i got my fabulous haircut? what all has been going on. work? more work? oh, yeah, and some more. i went to new mexico for work. which was way fun. it was for a conference at a fancy resort outside of albequrue. i got off the plane, got in a car, got dropped off, checked in then went for a run in the 32485293 degree heat at about 24232 feet elevation. needless to day, it about put me on my arse! but then i went to the pool and hung out. never got into the water because it felt too cold but rested and relaxed. it was sooo luxurious. by the end of the conference, it was rumored that caroline rheah, oprah, kevin costner, dennis hopper, and benji and the gang from so you think you can dance were all at the resort. good fun. cocktail reception that evening was lovely. had some margahitas but they about killed me. i felt totally hammered in the morning but i got up and ran on the treadmill in the morning then off to the conference. i have never been to anything where everyone was so friendly! it was really quite pleasant!! at some point in the day eric got there! horray!! it was so fun to have him there even tho i was working pretty much the whole time!! tuesday eric and i got up and went for a run together. it wasn't too hot so it was fun. tuesday was only a 1/2 day because there were off site activities. eric and i took this as sit by the pool, go down the water slide 100 times and then head to santa fe. we walked all around there and then i eventually went to the conference dinner while eric headed out and then hung at the bar. wednesday at the conference i lead a session which was not very well attended but then i had to get on the microphone and give a summary to the whole group. that was exciting. i couldn't wait for wednesday to be over but that also meant we would be heading home. the flight was uneventful, except for the girl from tampa who sat next to eric who had the magic bag of food that she managed to pull an entire pizza out of and a hogie and apparently some other things. i slept through most of it. i knew it was dry in new mexico, but i had no idea until i got him and when i pulled the covers back to get into bed the bedding felt damp. weird.
friday allie came to visit, which was very exciting!!! she brought her husband and little boy and we had so much fun!! i did a triathlon saturday morning which was exciting, my swim was 2 minutes faster then the same race last year and my run was almost 5 minutes faster, i think. i was really please with the swim, even before i knew the time, i felt really like i had tried pretty hard. it was short but i was happy. i always feel like i am working sort of on the bike and can't figure out why my time is so slow. i was about 3 seconds slower on the bike then last year, but ya know, when you don't train on the bike, you can't really expect anything. allie met me on the run and ran with me. it was very funny because allie was telling me stories about the people as we passed them, such as "she got back from the bike two minutes before you" and "you were 23 in your wave out of the water but ya know that girl with the amazing abs and the broad shoulders was 21 out of the water in her wave" or something of that nature. it was all fun.
after the race we met up with the rest of the crew in the mini van and headed down town. we went to pikes place market and then to the aquarium, which was a huge hit. the kids LOVED it. sirus was laughing and yelling and just so excitied. seamus was so interested in everything!! the two families split up, but i hear that zach enjoyed it just as much as our kids!
everyone came home and napped and then i don't really remember any more of saturday.
sunday allie and eric went for a 12 mile run, then we headed out on a hike. the kids were amazing! they hiked and hiked and hiked! up hill and down hill and running every where! i can't wait to go again.
friday allie came to visit, which was very exciting!!! she brought her husband and little boy and we had so much fun!! i did a triathlon saturday morning which was exciting, my swim was 2 minutes faster then the same race last year and my run was almost 5 minutes faster, i think. i was really please with the swim, even before i knew the time, i felt really like i had tried pretty hard. it was short but i was happy. i always feel like i am working sort of on the bike and can't figure out why my time is so slow. i was about 3 seconds slower on the bike then last year, but ya know, when you don't train on the bike, you can't really expect anything. allie met me on the run and ran with me. it was very funny because allie was telling me stories about the people as we passed them, such as "she got back from the bike two minutes before you" and "you were 23 in your wave out of the water but ya know that girl with the amazing abs and the broad shoulders was 21 out of the water in her wave" or something of that nature. it was all fun.
after the race we met up with the rest of the crew in the mini van and headed down town. we went to pikes place market and then to the aquarium, which was a huge hit. the kids LOVED it. sirus was laughing and yelling and just so excitied. seamus was so interested in everything!! the two families split up, but i hear that zach enjoyed it just as much as our kids!
everyone came home and napped and then i don't really remember any more of saturday.
sunday allie and eric went for a 12 mile run, then we headed out on a hike. the kids were amazing! they hiked and hiked and hiked! up hill and down hill and running every where! i can't wait to go again.
Saturday, August 04, 2007
so much
a lot has happened since the last post.
a family triathlon at seafair in which i was talking to a woman in the transition area who was telling me how a friend of hers said ironmans were like childbirth and had to say - yes! that is exaclty what i posted about the other day.
a trip to san diego to see jen in which the beach was so cold that we sat in the car and looked at it instead of sitting on it. we were planing on a detox cleansing thing but wound up gettting too drunk the night i got in and we decided it would be unsafe to detox all hung over. we spent most of the weekend at the outlet mall which was way fun and even funnier is that we both showed up at the cash register with the same exact outfits in our arms.
a 1st place, yes i said 1st place finish in my age group 5k run and pr at the torch light run. 60 people in my age group, unbeleiveable!!
a trip to nyc which was scary and fun and exciting all at the same time. i got to meet liz which was loooooong over due and i am so excited to have gotten the opportunity! and i got to see dug, too, which is always a treat! and i disovered what might just be a cult, The American Girl Place. I got one of the dolls for Seamus and i can't wait to visit one of the stores with her some day so we can get the doll's hair done.
and i got a hair cut. my curl is mostly gone and my last hair in march was terrible. i hadn't had what i would call a bad hair day in probably years but boy after that cut i had one almost every day. i hadn't gone to the fabulous team of richard and james dean downtown, but instead opted for a random person in redmond who trnaslated i want something young and hip into lame soccer mom. lo and behold - james dean saved the day! he is my hero. i was trying to take some photos of my sweet new dooo and this one came out of the camera. i love it. click on it and check out the eyes. no photo shopping that one, looking like a cyborg.
a family triathlon at seafair in which i was talking to a woman in the transition area who was telling me how a friend of hers said ironmans were like childbirth and had to say - yes! that is exaclty what i posted about the other day.
a trip to san diego to see jen in which the beach was so cold that we sat in the car and looked at it instead of sitting on it. we were planing on a detox cleansing thing but wound up gettting too drunk the night i got in and we decided it would be unsafe to detox all hung over. we spent most of the weekend at the outlet mall which was way fun and even funnier is that we both showed up at the cash register with the same exact outfits in our arms.
a 1st place, yes i said 1st place finish in my age group 5k run and pr at the torch light run. 60 people in my age group, unbeleiveable!!
a trip to nyc which was scary and fun and exciting all at the same time. i got to meet liz which was loooooong over due and i am so excited to have gotten the opportunity! and i got to see dug, too, which is always a treat! and i disovered what might just be a cult, The American Girl Place. I got one of the dolls for Seamus and i can't wait to visit one of the stores with her some day so we can get the doll's hair done.
and i got a hair cut. my curl is mostly gone and my last hair in march was terrible. i hadn't had what i would call a bad hair day in probably years but boy after that cut i had one almost every day. i hadn't gone to the fabulous team of richard and james dean downtown, but instead opted for a random person in redmond who trnaslated i want something young and hip into lame soccer mom. lo and behold - james dean saved the day! he is my hero. i was trying to take some photos of my sweet new dooo and this one came out of the camera. i love it. click on it and check out the eyes. no photo shopping that one, looking like a cyborg.
Friday, July 13, 2007
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!!!
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!!!
Sunday, July 08, 2007
its over!! finally! it has come and gone and now i don't have to worry about it or ver do anything like it again!
i have been a nervous wreck about this race for the past few months. two months ago even i told eric that i was just not going to do it because there was no way i would be ready in time for it. thatis when he committed to helping me get ready. i trained and did some running and some biking and swimming, a lot more then i had been doing and much more then i had last summer but i dind't feel ready at all. part of that was because i had no idea what to expect. i was planning 1 hr swim, 4 hr bike and 3 hr run with transition times biked into all of that.
saturdya we went to pick up registration and to rack our bikes. the mandatory pre-race meeting rhoroughly freaked me out. going to the race site made things a little better and it was nice because each racer was given a designated spot to rack their bike. i was 495. then we scoped out the swim start and then exits and entrances to transition. then we went home.
friday we had pizza for dinner. saturday we had the obligatory pasta dinner and it was damn tasty. with all of that carbo loading and all the carbo loading i had been doing for the past week i was feeling ok. grandma came over in the evening on saturday since she was going to watch the kids on sunday and we would be leaving for the race site before 430am.
it was next to impossible for me to fall asleep and i tossed and turned. i checked the clock and it was 135. next thing i knew the alarm was going off and it was 345. i had to poke eric to get up. we loaded into the car and picked up the neigbor and then we were off! we got an awesome parking spot, got our bodies marked then each went and set up our spots. then off to the honey bucket. the one i was so lucky to get was ALL THE WAY FULL. i was concerned that this would hamper my abilities to do what needed to be done, but oh no. everything worked out perfectly. then back to the car to drop off some stuff and to change. we then went and picked up or timing chips and got back into the potty line. 20 minutes later and it was time to go get suited up! the first wave of elite men went off at 630. eric's wave was 644 i think and i stood on the hill and watched him stage. it was the weirdest thing to watch because the waves were staged in the grass right by the dock. when your wave was called you walked out on the dock then down onto this other myster dock and then you got in the water there. it was weird to watch eric line up with these other dudes all in black with orange hats and then for them all to walk as though they were being sheppharded to the meat factory. real weird. my wave went off at 656. by the time we were on the dock i wasn't nervous. i slipped into the water which was really warm and tried to figure out my goggles.
then the race started. dare i say that the swim was actually good? and enjoyable? i was totally relaxed and just went on my way. i swam the crawl stroke more then i ever have before and wasn't getting tired. i did a lot of the breast stroke but on the home stretch i crawled more and i even crawled the last several minutes to make a good showing coming out of the water. i wsa caught by 4 if not 5 other colors of caps but everyone kept their own lines and it wasn't scary like it can be in the sprints. it was even inspiring. expected swim time 1 hr, actual swim time: 51:08
T1 - the neighbor and i came out of the water at the same time but he was out before i was, which isn't suprising since i took 3:30. funny thing, i finished 50 in my age group in the swim, so did eric, my t1 was 3:30 and so was erics. but he made a stop at the honey bucket, i was just slow.
onto the bike. i was worried about the bike. i knew it was hilly and long and i hand't ridden more the 35 miles in one ride since before i was pregnant with seamus. the bike started out good with a good stretch of slightly down hill. this was good because i was having weird upper hamstrong issues that i was quite worreid by. but before i knew it i passed the 5 mile sign and i was stoked. 33 minutes into the bike, i was lapped by the elite men. they were cool to watch go by with the disk wheels and all. i had a powerbar and would take a big bite out every 20 minutes for the first two hours. gu every 40 minutes was it after. i drank one big bottle and two little bottles of water. the time just ticked along. at one point i thought to my self that i wasn't so sure i wou;d be able to completed a 2nd lap and the run but i kept going. i passed the bottle exchange area at mile 14 and the course started to get fun. after a giant awesome long downhill section my odometer magnet and thingy were hitting each other going ding with each turn of the wheel. i was going crazy so i stopped and fixed it. then i finished lap one! i had spent more time out of the saddle and in my big ring then i imagined i ever would. lap two was good and seemed to go much faster. at 220 i decided to totally move my odometer away since it had started dinging again. maybe this helped? but i was having fun and at 40 miles into the bike course i was feeling great and felt like i owned the bike! ha! i went up the last big hill and the rest was smooth sailing along the lake. the bike was done! expected bike time 4 hrs - actual bike time 3:41.
i rolled into t2 for a whopping 4:23 stop. but, to give myself a little credit, i did a complete costume change including shorts and shirt, had some banana, put on a hat and then some body glide in the old arm pits and squirted some sunblock in my hand. i rubbed in the sunscreen as i ran out - spf 50!
the first mile was hard. i had to pee. i was going to pee in transition but thot that if i did i might stay in there. i got to the first aid station at mile 1, was amazed by the buffet of snacks, grabbed some gatorade, walked over to the potty and saw that the potty was occupied. imagine my supirse wne i looked at my watch and it said 9 minutes! so off to aid station #2. got there, got some water, the gatorade was too strong, went potty and was feeling really good. almsot too good. so i kept going. i then figured out that if i took both water and gatorade i could mix them and it would be perfect, so would get to the aid station, mix my beverage, drink it and walk to the last trash can. the course went through town twice with each lap. the 2nd half of each lap was along the lake and had a giant hill. on my way down the hil our neigbor was running up the hill. as i was coming into town to head out on lap two, eric was on the side of the course in his normal clothes! he was already finished! lap two was tougher but i was still feeling good. i dind' tmention that on the bike lap two my right something or another right below the back of my knee started to really hurt and kept hurting. it hurt through the run but i kep going. with only 3 miles to go i had that terrible hill and the last time into town. finaly i got to the 12 mile mark and i picked up the pace. when i got back into town i ran as fast as i could to the finish. expected run time 3hrs - actual run time 2:11.
total time: 6:52:03 i was THRILLED!!
eric met me at the finish and i was so excited!!! we sat on the ground and he brougt me some cookies and a banana and water. we sat there for quite a while.
while i was super happy with my results, eric pulled a 4:55!! while he was 50th in his group out of the water he was 3rd on the bike and 17 on the run - a 1:39 when he hasn't ever run more then 11 miles. i am very proud of him! he finshed 13th in his age group which i think is fantastic!! he is amazing! he finished so fast that he had some of the pizza they had at the finish line. it was all gone by the time i got there but i was ok with that!
awesome day but now we are both totally thrashed i am icing the back of my knee since i think it might snap any second now and we are both concerned about how we will feel tomorrow.
what wll the next goal? mine is to run 13.1 in less then 2 hrs which i thinki can probably do!
i have been a nervous wreck about this race for the past few months. two months ago even i told eric that i was just not going to do it because there was no way i would be ready in time for it. thatis when he committed to helping me get ready. i trained and did some running and some biking and swimming, a lot more then i had been doing and much more then i had last summer but i dind't feel ready at all. part of that was because i had no idea what to expect. i was planning 1 hr swim, 4 hr bike and 3 hr run with transition times biked into all of that.
saturdya we went to pick up registration and to rack our bikes. the mandatory pre-race meeting rhoroughly freaked me out. going to the race site made things a little better and it was nice because each racer was given a designated spot to rack their bike. i was 495. then we scoped out the swim start and then exits and entrances to transition. then we went home.
friday we had pizza for dinner. saturday we had the obligatory pasta dinner and it was damn tasty. with all of that carbo loading and all the carbo loading i had been doing for the past week i was feeling ok. grandma came over in the evening on saturday since she was going to watch the kids on sunday and we would be leaving for the race site before 430am.
it was next to impossible for me to fall asleep and i tossed and turned. i checked the clock and it was 135. next thing i knew the alarm was going off and it was 345. i had to poke eric to get up. we loaded into the car and picked up the neigbor and then we were off! we got an awesome parking spot, got our bodies marked then each went and set up our spots. then off to the honey bucket. the one i was so lucky to get was ALL THE WAY FULL. i was concerned that this would hamper my abilities to do what needed to be done, but oh no. everything worked out perfectly. then back to the car to drop off some stuff and to change. we then went and picked up or timing chips and got back into the potty line. 20 minutes later and it was time to go get suited up! the first wave of elite men went off at 630. eric's wave was 644 i think and i stood on the hill and watched him stage. it was the weirdest thing to watch because the waves were staged in the grass right by the dock. when your wave was called you walked out on the dock then down onto this other myster dock and then you got in the water there. it was weird to watch eric line up with these other dudes all in black with orange hats and then for them all to walk as though they were being sheppharded to the meat factory. real weird. my wave went off at 656. by the time we were on the dock i wasn't nervous. i slipped into the water which was really warm and tried to figure out my goggles.
then the race started. dare i say that the swim was actually good? and enjoyable? i was totally relaxed and just went on my way. i swam the crawl stroke more then i ever have before and wasn't getting tired. i did a lot of the breast stroke but on the home stretch i crawled more and i even crawled the last several minutes to make a good showing coming out of the water. i wsa caught by 4 if not 5 other colors of caps but everyone kept their own lines and it wasn't scary like it can be in the sprints. it was even inspiring. expected swim time 1 hr, actual swim time: 51:08
T1 - the neighbor and i came out of the water at the same time but he was out before i was, which isn't suprising since i took 3:30. funny thing, i finished 50 in my age group in the swim, so did eric, my t1 was 3:30 and so was erics. but he made a stop at the honey bucket, i was just slow.
onto the bike. i was worried about the bike. i knew it was hilly and long and i hand't ridden more the 35 miles in one ride since before i was pregnant with seamus. the bike started out good with a good stretch of slightly down hill. this was good because i was having weird upper hamstrong issues that i was quite worreid by. but before i knew it i passed the 5 mile sign and i was stoked. 33 minutes into the bike, i was lapped by the elite men. they were cool to watch go by with the disk wheels and all. i had a powerbar and would take a big bite out every 20 minutes for the first two hours. gu every 40 minutes was it after. i drank one big bottle and two little bottles of water. the time just ticked along. at one point i thought to my self that i wasn't so sure i wou;d be able to completed a 2nd lap and the run but i kept going. i passed the bottle exchange area at mile 14 and the course started to get fun. after a giant awesome long downhill section my odometer magnet and thingy were hitting each other going ding with each turn of the wheel. i was going crazy so i stopped and fixed it. then i finished lap one! i had spent more time out of the saddle and in my big ring then i imagined i ever would. lap two was good and seemed to go much faster. at 220 i decided to totally move my odometer away since it had started dinging again. maybe this helped? but i was having fun and at 40 miles into the bike course i was feeling great and felt like i owned the bike! ha! i went up the last big hill and the rest was smooth sailing along the lake. the bike was done! expected bike time 4 hrs - actual bike time 3:41.
i rolled into t2 for a whopping 4:23 stop. but, to give myself a little credit, i did a complete costume change including shorts and shirt, had some banana, put on a hat and then some body glide in the old arm pits and squirted some sunblock in my hand. i rubbed in the sunscreen as i ran out - spf 50!
the first mile was hard. i had to pee. i was going to pee in transition but thot that if i did i might stay in there. i got to the first aid station at mile 1, was amazed by the buffet of snacks, grabbed some gatorade, walked over to the potty and saw that the potty was occupied. imagine my supirse wne i looked at my watch and it said 9 minutes! so off to aid station #2. got there, got some water, the gatorade was too strong, went potty and was feeling really good. almsot too good. so i kept going. i then figured out that if i took both water and gatorade i could mix them and it would be perfect, so would get to the aid station, mix my beverage, drink it and walk to the last trash can. the course went through town twice with each lap. the 2nd half of each lap was along the lake and had a giant hill. on my way down the hil our neigbor was running up the hill. as i was coming into town to head out on lap two, eric was on the side of the course in his normal clothes! he was already finished! lap two was tougher but i was still feeling good. i dind' tmention that on the bike lap two my right something or another right below the back of my knee started to really hurt and kept hurting. it hurt through the run but i kep going. with only 3 miles to go i had that terrible hill and the last time into town. finaly i got to the 12 mile mark and i picked up the pace. when i got back into town i ran as fast as i could to the finish. expected run time 3hrs - actual run time 2:11.
total time: 6:52:03 i was THRILLED!!
eric met me at the finish and i was so excited!!! we sat on the ground and he brougt me some cookies and a banana and water. we sat there for quite a while.
while i was super happy with my results, eric pulled a 4:55!! while he was 50th in his group out of the water he was 3rd on the bike and 17 on the run - a 1:39 when he hasn't ever run more then 11 miles. i am very proud of him! he finshed 13th in his age group which i think is fantastic!! he is amazing! he finished so fast that he had some of the pizza they had at the finish line. it was all gone by the time i got there but i was ok with that!
awesome day but now we are both totally thrashed i am icing the back of my knee since i think it might snap any second now and we are both concerned about how we will feel tomorrow.
what wll the next goal? mine is to run 13.1 in less then 2 hrs which i thinki can probably do!
Monday, July 02, 2007
zits, fungus and good times
so, lets see, 6 days until the 1/2 iron man. my taper has been a good two months or so long so i should arrive pretty well rested. and i have been doing some serious carob loading this past weekend so i should be nice and full of carbohydrates that have turned them into a substatial but jiggle. eric and i are both looking forward to this being over. our crazy neighbor is doing the race too. he went and rode the bike course yesterday and said it was beautiful. we had driven it and yes it was quite lovely in a car, and maybe it will be lovely to go around once. i don't know why i am nervous. if eric were to say to me lets go for a 56 mile bike ride today i would whine about it but i would be able to do it.
i have got some what is likely athletes foot working itself onto my right baby toe. i put the tough actin tenactin on it, so hopfully it will stop being irritated here pretty soon. long time ago i had accidentally gotten my tough actin tenactin mixed up with my clearsil zit cream and before i knew it i was treating the athletes foot on my face. i feel a littel deja vu right now.
i did go to the aveda store to get something different for my face. i am still breaking out despite suposedly using this stuff that is supposed to be great. imagine my suprise when the guy pointed me to the stuff that combats aging. but it suposedly oh so gentle, maybe i have sensitive skin is that they are thinking. so now i am going through that nasty adjustment stage again where all the tiny zits come out to see everyone.
seamus told us the other day that he bike goes fast and her bike goes slow. she said she has a fast and slow bike. it was very funny.
i have got some what is likely athletes foot working itself onto my right baby toe. i put the tough actin tenactin on it, so hopfully it will stop being irritated here pretty soon. long time ago i had accidentally gotten my tough actin tenactin mixed up with my clearsil zit cream and before i knew it i was treating the athletes foot on my face. i feel a littel deja vu right now.
i did go to the aveda store to get something different for my face. i am still breaking out despite suposedly using this stuff that is supposed to be great. imagine my suprise when the guy pointed me to the stuff that combats aging. but it suposedly oh so gentle, maybe i have sensitive skin is that they are thinking. so now i am going through that nasty adjustment stage again where all the tiny zits come out to see everyone.
seamus told us the other day that he bike goes fast and her bike goes slow. she said she has a fast and slow bike. it was very funny.
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