September 1, 2010

Day #73 - Another List!

I must be getting lazy. :)

1) September? Already? Really? Seems like O was just finishing the school year. And now he starts another. We must be in a time warp!

2) I'm pretty sure I fell asleep in the weight room today - on the bench press. I can't be sure but all I know is that I just wanted to "rest my eyes" for a second and then poof, 5 minutes had passed. Good thing I was in there by myself. I've always maintained that I can fall asleep ANYWHERE, so I will add this to my sleeping resume. ;)

3) Oscar came home from the grocery store Monday night with my form of crack:

In case you can't tell - that's a pumpkin cookie! Oh do I love all things pumpkin! Pie, seeds, cookies, ravioli, bread, etc... YUM!

4) Today, for the first time in quite a while, I went to the laundromat. I needed to wash the comforter on our bed and upon close inspection of the tag, I realized I would need one of those big front-loading washers. The laundromat is an interesting place. An extremely thin woman (I'm thinking liver disease but it's only a guess) insisted upon explaining to me how everything worked. At first I was grateful because it did look a little complicated, but after a while I wanted her to stop watching my every move. She was creeping me out! And she was also eating the largest container of French fries from Wendy's that I've ever seen. I won't be sad if I don't have to go back there for a while.

Anyway, in my haste to get out of there I realized that about half of the comforter was still VERY wet even after being in the dryer for quite some time. I guess I only felt the dry part when I stuck my hand in there. :) So now we have a very wet, but nicely smelling comforter hanging from our dresser. Roxy is scared of it.

5) Speaking of Roxy - she is cute.

I rest my case.

6) Big Run Week is going well thus far. Today I had a run workout that I liked very much. It was my "moderately" long run of the week and included some intervals at the tail-end. So I got to run for 65 minutes aerobically and then I did the hard parts. Well who would have know how much I like a 65 minute warmup! I might have to try that for future track sessions and fartleks! :)

7) I've been stock piling ice in anticipation of many ice baths to come. This weekend is a big one! It's a good thing we have a big freezer in our basement. :)

8) My YMCA pool is going to reopen soon! WOOO-HOOO! Driving 40-60 minutes (one way) to swim (on non masters swim days) is getting quite old. Yesterday I did get to swim at the YMCA pool where I grew up though. Oh the memories! I used to pool-run there all the time! :)

And with that - I am off to make dinner! It's pizza night! Double WOOO-HOOO! Have a great night everyone!

Posted by beth at 5:49 PM | Comments (8)

August 29, 2010

Day #70 - Along We Roll

I think it's time for a list - I haven't done one for a while!

1) Ironman.com is killing me right now. I was away most of the morning/afternoon at church and then O's grandma's 80th birthday party. I was so excited to get home and see how everyone did in Canada and Louisville! Only to find out that ironman.com wasn't working and causing much weeping and gnashing of teeth around the world. Booooooooo. Please work again soon! I have to see how awesome everyone raced! :)

2) This weekend has been awesome! Besides the fact that O fell ill on Friday. That wasn't too fun or pretty. Stomach bug. Yuck. But he seems to be on the mend and was able to eat just fine today! :) Anyway, otherwise the weekend has been filled with training and church and the above mentioned birthday party and relaxing and yes, we even got the house cleaned. :)

3) Yesterday I had about 7 hours of training which I did entirely solo. I even had the whole pool to myself yesterday afternoon. I think the lifeguard must have been utterly bored with me! Anyway, I don't mind the solo part at all. I often think to myself how beneficial it is to do most of my long bikes by myself because that's how the race will be. Must learn to work through the tough points on my own. Of course all that time spent by myself (plus 90 minutes of driving in the car by myself to the pool) left me a lot of time to think. And you know what I realized? I realized that I have a remarkable ability to think of ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. :) HAHA! I'm not sure what that says about me. But honestly, I thought of very, very little. On the ride I thanked God for the beauty of the day and the ability to do what I so love to do. On the run I thought of pretty much the same thing. And on the swim I honestly thought of streamlining off the wall...for every one of the turns on my main set of 20x200 (in a 25 yd pool). That's a lot of turns! :) But besides that, not much else going on in my brain. It must be awfully empty up there. :)

4) I'm pretty sure I like training for Ironman. I'm not 100% certain about this but I've enjoyed the challenge thus far and honestly, when I was looking at my training for the next few weeks I was a little sad that all the big weeks will soon be over. Oh no! I think that means I would like to do more IMs in the future. Jury is still out on that one though because I haven't done the actual race yet. That might make me change my mind real quick. :)

5) Ironman.com still doesn't work. Apparently my incessant refreshing of the screen isn't helping matters either. :)

6) Roxy is cute.

7) My long run today was only 95 minutes! Woo-hoo! And then I looked at my runs for the upcoming week and I realized why today was so short. Yup, big run week coming up. Looking forward to it!

8) Solo Cristo (by Hillsong United) is seriously my favorite song EVER! I can listen to it over and over and over again and it doesn't grow old. It's the Spanish version of the song None But Jesus (also done by Hillsong) and although I don't speak Spanish and don't know the words, I still love it. I know the None But Jesus lyrics so I get the gist. :) Pretty important concept for me to remember though - there are a lot of things in this world that can compete for our devotion, but none of those things compares to living for the true purpose in this life...

9) Ironman.com still doesn't work.

10) Roxy is still cute. :)

Have a great start to your week everyone!

Posted by beth at 7:05 PM | Comments (9)