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9-22 7.6 mile run
9-23 825 meter swim
9-25 4.3 mile run

I have been getting pain in the front and side of my right lower leg when I start running. It usually stops mid run. Friday was pretty bad the entire time. I did Mondays run on the treadmill for the extra surface forgiveness. That was good I needed to get in 3 miles and made it 4.3. The treadmill is just so boring compared to outside. After that run my leg felt fine. I decided to run the next morning and then two full days off before doing my 20 miler. Thursday. This was my finale peak weak for mileage. I got up at 5:00am to run before Danny went to school. I did make it to the side walk but I couldn't even run to the mail box. I had to limp my gate was off. The pain shot through my calf from the front of my leg every take off and landed. It hurt wicked bad. I stopped at the mail box and went back to bed.

I love my doctor. So, glad I switched my primary in March. They took at 2:30pm and encourged me just to bring Matisse no need for a babysitter. She did awesome with my doctor even though he is tall deep voiced gentleman. He said the pain in my calf is from the blood which came from the tendons in the front of my shin. He said I can't do anything for 10 days. Not even a bike ride. I have to have an ultrasound to rule out thrombosis in my giant veracious vein. I tried to push him to see what are next step was. He said if I don't stop I wont make 26 miles. Well I can't run anyway so I wont even try. I just hurts so bad and last time I hurt my tendons it was a long recovery with lots of steps forward followed by a step back. So, I wonder if it is logical at this point to think I can still do it. October 29th isn't very far away from now. He said I will here from him Tuesday and will go from there. Bummer :(
I wasn't acutely bummed after I saw him, I was just happy he said it wasn't bone and he didn't say I wouldn't make it to the marathon.

Apartment living.....

is luxurious. I was up most of the night to the bass of then man below us. Natasha was up too, between being sick with a cough and being disrupted by the music. I shut off the alarm at 2:00am. I was supposed to run 4 miles and then go to 5:30am cycle class :(.

I created a Slide Show! Check it out!

I just ran 19.2miles....

now I must go find some ice for my legs.

Hope everyone is enjoying the crisp fall air. I love it.

Workouts

9-15 run 5.7 miles
9-16 swim 425 meters
9-17 no workout
9-18 run 4 miles

This week will be shorter distance per day over increase of miles for a week total of 30 miles running. I made it to the pool on Saturday before work. I did the thumb drill and practiced breathing on my 3rd stroke. It did seem better now that I have some direction. I was a mess trying to turn off the wall. I did look back in the book I got from the library and think I know how to turn off the wall now. I will try that next time. Jeremy (havlow) has been helping me figure out my swimming. What an awesome guy to share his knowledge with me. He did distance swims, 1650 meters! How awesome is that. My goal for the winter is to be able to swim 1 mile. I plan to work on this after I do the Detroit marathon. OK nap time for me and babycakes.

This is pretty...pretty scary

This morning map my run says I ran 11.5 miles and the foot pod says 12.5. Looks like I will always have to map it. Maybe I need to tell the foot pod I have a small stride.

:)

I don't have much to up date on. I was going to 12 miles Monday but Danny had to much to do for me to get away. I did get up before he went to school on Tuesday and got in 10.8 miles. I got to use the foot pod which was good to see my pace as I went. When I was done mapmyrun said I did 10.8 and the foot pod said 11.5 miles. I did have to loop up around some parking lots but .7 miles seems like to much of a difference. Other then that Jeremy(Havlow) has been helping me learn to swim. I learned some new stuff and hope to get to the pool. Looks like I might not get there till Friday. How awesome of him to do that for me.

I did see dancing with the starts. I don't need to worry about ever missing a song, that is for sure. Every time a couple did there dance Natasha came and got me and made me dance with her. She's funny.
Have an awesome day.

I'm Hooked

I don't even know where to begin. The entire event was absolutely awesome. The rain and thunder stayed over by my house an hour 10 min. away, near the lovely Steve it was another world. It was summer all over again. The water was a calm 73 degrees. It was warm enough that I swam in my swim suit and didn't waste my time with the wet suit. The swim was hard but not as bad as Thursday. I was panicking then. The swim start was a site. The Olympic distance men left first followed by the women. The sprint distance had to wait 20min. from the first swim start probably about 9:30am. It was very calming by the water and I never felt nervous. It was awesome to watch all those guys swim up around the coarse. I only burped up a little air I knocked a girl across her back and I think my feet hit someone once. I was bumped a few times but never hard or enough to effect me. I just kept looking up for the big orange buoys knowing the straighter I went the sooner I would be out of the water. I lost the focus to free style and for the last 100 meters I did the side stroke. I ran up the beach and was excited that my legs were not total jelly I felt like I had good footing. I ran up the flagged area toward transition. I got to wave to Danny on my way. He had Natasha on the playground that was between the beach and transition. In transition I grabbed my shirt the wrong way and lost some time trying to get it over me. It isn't so easy when your all wet. So, I was off on the bike trail. I felt OK but there where no mile markers to give me any idea how much farther. A group was directed wrong and after we went down the road we were turned around and put on the right path. I ended up passing the same people twice since I had gone the wrong way. This made it even harder for me to gauge just how far I had ridden. I was able to pass up some girls even on my big heavy gremlin of a bike. My quads felt it but I stayed in 21st gear the entire time. My front bike tire was getting louder and shaking like crazy. The entire last stretch of the bike coarse I was prying that my front wheel staied on. At one point I thought I was rounding the corner to transition and really pushed it. I passed up a sleek pink bike and still had my front tire. I then realized there was a little further. Well, the pink bike took back her spot in front of me we rounded the corner into transition. I promised I would catch her in the run. My bike made it back safely to the rack in one piece! I was feeling dehydratied and chugged some Gatorade in transition. I had already been racing for well over an hour. I headed out on the run. No sign of Danny this time, bummer. I followed the run path out of the lot. The path goes around a lagoon and loops back. My leg muscles were fighting each other the hamstrings were tight after all the biking. I was amazed that other then that my legs felt incredible. I just had to catch a pace. You could see everyone was stiff running with hardly a bend in the knee. I told myself only 3.7 miles, that is nothing. I found a pace I thought fast enough that would hold out to the end. I passed everyone in front of me. I was working hard and keeping my own pace, but I felt fine and it wasn't a huge struggle. I was almost done. Danny would have been proud of my big manly spit wad. I never stopped for water just once to tie my shoe, bummer. I wish I knew the last .7 miles were off the bridge I would have picked up my pace sooner. At the 3 mile marker I could see the path back around the lot that I knew took to the finish line. I picked up a little in the sprint for the end. It was absolutely awesome. I got a finishers towel and medal. Then this guy actually came up from finishing after me and thanked me for keeping a good pace. He said I came running by and he said wow I can do that and he pushed himself paced behind me. That was rally cool and I am glad he took the time after finishing himself to come tell me. So, thanks tall gray haired man for the nice words. It was all very awesome. I would do it again tomorrow definitely not my last one. My official over all finishing time 1 hour 54 minutes and 18 seconds.

Woohoo just checked the site for the final times!

For the 25-29 age group I placed 4th!!!!!!!!!! My rank in the swim 9th at 18:27, my bike rank 10 at 1:03:1 and for the run I took first place !!!! I ran a 7 minute 37 second pace for 28:09 WWOOHOO This is all new news to me very exciting.

There is no crying in Triathlons!

I went to the lake tonight to do a practice swim. I set up a transition for the bike just like I will for Saturday. It was beautiful outside warm and calm the sun was headed down. I swam a few lengths of the swimming area. It was awful just bad. It felt so hard I couldn't catch a rhythm. I tried to go slow focus on form. How the hell do people roll there hips up on the side anyway? I ended up working myself up. All I could think was "this is so hard". It just kept going through my head "this is so hard, this is so hard". Luckily the water here wasn't over my head because I began to hyperventilate. I fought back a big pathetic cry fest. I swam a couple more times. I never got better. I got out changed for the bike leg and rode to the bike trail. I did a quick ride. I just wanted to let my body feel some fast paddling. I think I went 1.75 miles all together. When I got back to the lake I went ahead and cried. It was hard. I know I can finish but it will be hard. I am excited to do the race I really am. I sure could use a swim lesson. It is a little late for that. I decided I need a new saying for the swim. Since the one I got makes me hyperventilate which my be counter productive. I need to get to bed. I get to go to Monroe tomorrow and get my race packet, very exciting.

This thing is toasty. Ha ha I don't know if you can see it in the first shot, but it is so tight you see every wrinkle in my swim suit. Very wierd.

Just 3 more days

The wonderful Nancy & me at the gym.

Nancy meet up with me Monday to take me through inclines on the treadmill. She did this to determine my heart rate zones for the new monitor. She also showed me how to use the foot pod. It can tell my pace and distance while running! How awesome is that. Nancy was super sweet as always even though I was a few minutes late. She did this on her own time just for me. I feel special, Thanks Nancy. I got to ride the bike to the gym which was nice. The ride home was even better, warmer with lots of sunshine. Needless to say I took the long way home.

I am very tired and not doing a good job this week relaxing or getting enough sleep. I had trouble sleeping the night before and then got up and worked a 16 hour day. By the time I got home got some stuff done went to bed it was getting late. Natasha got up at 7:00am. This is the earliest she gets up, bummer. My mind wont stop there is so much to be done before Saturday.

My wet suit came in the mail! Woohoo. Man that thing feels wired. I put it on and it is so tight you can see where my belly bottom is. I need to get one swim in with it on and it will be my only swim this week. I just have no clue how I am going to do it. I can't go to the lake with Natasha. Danny has school and Friday I have a sitter but that is to go to the doctor and drive to Monroe for my race packet and info. Then if I find someone to watch her do I go swim in the lake alone. I need to practice transition too and if I make it to the lake I am including it. I will have to run out of the water get the suit off. Which is like trying to peel off your own skin. Then I hope to practice putting on my bike gear on while wet. I am going to ask my friend Dawn to watch Natasha for an hour this afternoon. She had her most of the day yesterday and she has kiddos of her own. One of which just started school. So, hope I can get her but don't want to where her out. Then she lives near one of the parks and I can go there. You have to do what you have to do I guess. Just not looking forward to doing it on my own.

Lori...

I dropped 5 dollars while doing my bike ride last night. If you find it you can keep it.

I was freaking out when I went to the web site to get some info on the triathlon. Looks like I was so excited to find a triathlon to replace the one I was to do August 9th that I never realized it is a bit longer. It is still considered a sprint but I thought the bike leg was 12 miles. When I realized it will be 14.7 well I freaked. I have since calmed my nerves by going for a 16 mile bike ride. I run is slightly longer too. I thought it was a 5K(3.2) and turns out it is 3.7 miles and well bring on the running at least I know I can handel that. Although I had to walk my bike for a moment during the ride and my legs were junk. I was all wobble how I am expected to walk let alone run after over an hour of swimming and biking is beyond me. I am getting wicked excited about the entire event. Today at 9am I was off the wall at work because one week from that moment I would be taking off for the swim leg. How cool is that. I'm just excited and nervous but all in a good way, for now. Anyway it is a 500 meter swim fallowed by 14.7 mile bike ride fallowed by the 3.7 mile run. Wish you could come with me.