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June 19, 2006
Oh Yeah - I'm On Vacation!
The whole drive down to Charleston, SC and over the weekend I was so focused on the triathlon that I think I forgot that we would be on vacation in Hilton Head the whole rest of the week visiting my parents. What a great realization on Sunday night when we arrived at my parent's house, our final destination! Even better was sleeping in this morning until 8 am and getting 9.5 hours of sleep! AHHH!! :)
This morning I wasn't feeling too bad other than my left hamstring that is apparently very mad at me for something. My feet are a little sore too. I am taking the day off though and after some stretching and walking around my hammy is feeling better. The hamstring could be sore due to my total lack of cooldown yesterday. Hey, I figured a 5K run at around 7 minute pace was cooldown enough... :)
Instead of doing my own workout this morning I went over to the local high school track to watch and time O's for him. He was doing 6x800 w/90 seconds rest and looked quite fine in doing them, especially given the fact that the humidity here seems much worse than at home. He did them all between 2:55-3 minutes. I must say, I far prefer timing and watching workouts to actually doing them. It's much less tiring. :)
Regardless, the official results were posted from yesterday. Unfortunately they include transition times (which is odd because they had the mats positioned as such to not do that) and so my swim time includes my T1 and my bike time includes T2. I really would have liked to see what my T1 time was, and also just my bike time by itself. Either way, the good news is, my run time was pure. I really was 5th overall.
swim + T1 = 9:21
bike +T2 = 37:44 (~20.5 MPH average including transition time)
run = 21:29
So anyway, today we went minature golfing and I lost. What's up with that? O won. Of course I told him that I let him win for 2 reasons:
1) yesterday was his birthday and
2) he's playing a "real" round of golf tomorrow and I wanted to help his confidence along some
I'm such a nice wife. And I let my mom beat me because...um...because she paid for lunch. Yeah...that's why. :) I started out beautifully but things got ugly towards the end when I took some 5s and 4s. Oh well, I guess there is always a next time.
Hope everyone has a great day!
Posted by beth at June 19, 2006 3:53 PM