RUNNING AND LIVING

Thanks for all your answers and comments about my upcoming triathlon adventure. They've already helped a ton !

I am working from home today and am having a hard time not falling asleep. It's been raining since Friday, the basement is a minilake, it's dark outside and everyone is hiding in. I was supposed to do a 10 mile run with 3X1600m @ 6:22, but when I woke up this morning I refused to go. My 20 miler on Saturday, when I had to come home and change clothes mid run in hope of avoiding hypothermia, probably traumatized me. I just did not want that feeling of cold...everything. So I did a bike interval workout instead, 60 min with my current read, Still Alice, which helped pass the time (v good book) but did not help much with the mood (v sad book). Chocolate and coffee did help with the mood, though.

These days I get super excited about swimming. I swam 4 times last week, and I tell you frequency of swims seems to be key for me. I typically swim Fridays and Sundays, and my Sunday swim is always better! It's like I 'forget' how to swim from Sunday to Friday, and need some time to learn! Swimming 4 times a week was awesome. I found my groove after only a couple of laps. Nice!

I get to race on Sunday! I am as excited as I can get on this rainy day, but I know I'll get truly excited as the race gets closer. I won't taper for it, but I still think I should be able to bring home a PR. My runs during the past week have been slower, since I got nervous about the adductor hip issue, and also realized I was pushing too much too soon. I feel excited to push in the race! It was exciting to read all your race reports! Seems like everyone PRed and had a great race! Hurray! OK, time for me to do some more work! Lets hope the rain really stops tonight!!!