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November 25, 2007
Social Butterflies
O recently pointed out that he and I have been quite the social butterflies lately! This, of course, being a huge diversion from our usual state. Pretty much every Friday/Saturday night of the year we can be found at home, watching tv or a movie, me mostly sleeping, and him mostly watching sports after I fell asleep AGAIN. It's quite the life of excitement, I know. But with work and training I'm usually trashed and with his work and coaching, he is much the same. The night life around our house usually ends around 8:30 pm. :)
But for the first time this year I'm hardly training (I put in a robust 5.5 hours this past week!) and he is on a coaching hiatus until indoor track season starts up again the first full week of December. Delightful!
Last weekend was dinner out with friends in the Strip District (if you are not familiar with the area that sort of sounds bad I guess but the Strip is just a nice area of Pittsburgh along the river with lots of resturants, shops and clubs). And of course this week was just full of family time with the holiday. Last night we went to my 10th year high school reunion (more on that later).
Next weekend is just brimming with stuff to do! We are going to a Kona party on Saturday (very much looking forward to it) to watch the tv coverage of the Ironman and then on Sunday, two of my college teammates and I are driving to the State College area to visit another one of my college teammates.
The following weekend I planned a special day for O as part Christmas gift/part thank you for being the best husband in the world and putting up with all my triathlon "stuff" all year (and for many years to come :). No more info on that though because it's a surprise and try as he might, his guesses have not even come close. He, he. I am really a horrible secret keeper but I'm so proud of myself for doing so good with this.
Then the next weekend we have a wedding that is quite formal and I'm very pleased to let you all know that despite much weeping and gnashing of teeth I finally found a suitable dress! I really struggled with that one - to find something fancy enough but not too over the top. The mom of the bride (O's aunt) told me to make it "fancier than something you'd wear to church but not something you'd wear to the prom." Okay two problems with that: (1) I wear jeans to church and (2) I never went to the prom. Oh dear. I think I have something though and regardless of what happens now, I'm going with it.
That then brings us to the following weekend when we will be traveling to Hilton Head, SC to visit my parents for Christmas and spend an entire week in (somewhat) warm weather. My bike is coming with me!!
Much to look forward to for sure and now is the perfect time for it all. It won't be long before I'm back to long rides and runs on the weekend and O is gone from 6am to 10 pm at track meets in far away places. Now is our time to shine! (and then we'll go back to falling asleep at 7:30 at night on the couch... :)
Regardless, last night was the big 10 Year Reunion for the 1997 Class of Greensburg Salem High School! How about that?! I'll have to admit, as the day wore on yesterday I was getting quite nervous about going. I'm not sure why, I liked high school and was lucky to have many good friends. But I hadn't kept in contact with many people (if any) and I suppose I didn't know what to expect after 10 years time. It was very fun though. And I even remembered and recognized most people (also another concern)! It was great to see some faces I literally hadn't seen for...well...10 years! Most everyone was married, some with children, some not, some already divorced, most still living in the area. There were dentists and engineers and police officers and teachers. Lots of teachers. I laughed hysterically as I reconnected with some of my XC teammates (just the guys though - no other girls came!) and we remembered stories of old from many a cross country practice. I only stuck my foot in my mouth once (I rather not comment there). And then I thought how lucky I was to grow up where I did. Although we've all moved on in life, I'll always have something in common with those 180 people I graduated with. Lots of great memories for me. And the bad memories? Well I don't remember them so much any way. :)
So that's that! I have been doing some light training the past couple days - some light spinning on Thankgiving Day on the trainer, an easy 45 minute run on Black Friday (AFTER we went back to bed and got up again :), a 3000 yd swim workout yesterday and today, nothing, just a relaxing day of getting some stuff done around the house. This upcoming week I'll do much of the same, one easy workout a day, and then come December it's back to some structure. I'm sure I won't be back on the track and into the heavy intervals for a while yet but the quantity will start to amp up.
Hope everyone has a great start to their week!
Posted by beth at November 25, 2007 5:06 PM
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Beth's really gone above and beyond with this surprise. I haven't been able to figure it out.
Posted by: O at November 25, 2007 8:41 PM
Ah indoor track...brings back memories of running the two-mile in Slippery Rock on a Friday night.
Posted by: brian at November 28, 2007 8:21 AM