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May 23, 2008
And The Angels Rejoiced
I don't even know where to start I'm so excited right now! First of all, the best news of the day - ROUTE 28 NOW HAS BOTH LANES OPEN BOTH NORTH AND SOUTH BOUND! And the angels rejoiced. This discovery was made better by the fact that it was totally unexpected. I thought there were going to be lane closures either one way or the other until November. You can't even understand how happy this makes me! Instead of a 70-90 minute commute home my time in the car will be reduced to a mere 35-45 minutes! AMAZING! All time-starved triathletes will understand what a big difference this will make in my day!
Speaking of traffic and driving to and from work, I played a little prank on O this morning that was kind of funny. Except I'm not very good at pranks because I always laugh. And that's bound to give a prank away. Anyway, O left the house before me this morning (he was actually headed to the state track meet) and so on his way out called to let me know that there was a cop waiting at such and such a place. O always calls me when he sees a cop in an area where he knows I'm headed. This may or may not have anything to do with my lead foot.
Regardless, once I was on my way to work I called O with the "bad news" that despite knowing where the cop was, I still managed to get a ticket. And worse yet, the damage was pretty bad because it was in a construction zone (where fines are doubled!). Oh man was it good! O was totally believing it too, but of course I laughed and he caught onto me. I AM SO FUNNY! (not really :)
Anyway, I sort of got off track. My other good news for the day is that I discovered an open water swim race in late June that is only about 1 hour from where we live! SWEET! I am REALLY excited about this. It's the perfect opportunity to get some more open water and swim RACE practice!!!!! So as soon as I got home from work and the YMCA I emailed my coach to see what he thought. I know too much racing (and too little training) isn't such a good idea (I'm racing the Philadelphia Triathlon the weekend before) but this seems too good to pass up. There is a 1 mile race and a 2 mile race (and no, you can't do both because of the timing, I already thought of that) and it's in a lake. Anyway, it's not like I would even have to miss any training for it because it could just serve as my hard swim for that Saturday morning and I could do my long ride or brick after it! That's at least how I reasoned it all out in my head.
So AFTER I email my coach I think to google the race to see what the results were from last year. Not that I wouldn't do a race just because I would look really slow but I just wanted to see where I would stand. Holy crap. There was a 13 YEAR OLD GIRL that swam 17:47 last year! For a full mile! (and yes, I prayed a little prayer that somehow the course was short last year... :) Luckily the older age groups had much slower people so I won't be completely last. Either way, I really hope coach goes for it! :)
As for training today, I did a bit of that too! This morning I had a drill swim and then a short run. Then, this afternoon after work I made a reappearance in the weight room. Yes - the weight room! Haven't been there for a while! But now with my next "A" race quite a while away it's back to work. No doubt I'll be sore tomorrow!
Speaking of tomorrow I'm really excited! It has been quite chilly around these parts lately (38 degrees on my run this morning and I actually wore gloves!) but this weekend it's supposed to warm up! Tomorrow should be absolutely BEAUTIFUL for my long ride and I couldn't be more excited. I feel like I haven't got to do a long ride for a while so I'm looking forward to a 60+ miler tomorrow. And then on Sunday I will get to see my parents AND grandparents! And then on Monday I will be the equipment manager for a change and go to watch O race a 5K! (luckily the equipment needed for a 5K seems to be far less than that needed for a triathlon!) Many, many great things!
Hope everyone has a great holiday weekend!
Posted by beth at May 23, 2008 7:37 PM
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I so so so hope you can do the open water swim! I love those, perfect practice for tri-swimming and no reason to save energy for the bike!
Have fun on the 60 miler & I hope O kicks his own but in the 5k!! Enjoy your weekend and the family!
By the way, every race this season I have been warming up to the CD you sent me... there are 4 songs on there that totally get under my skin (in a good way) and get me on fire... thanks again & again for that and we will have to exchange tunes again when we update our music!
Posted by: Bree at May 23, 2008 10:39 PM