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April 8, 2009
Back To Reality
Hmm - I believe the last time I wrote I was still enjoying the beautiful Californian sun. And now I'm back in Pittsburgh where the snow just melted this morning. Something wrong there. Something very wrong.
But let me back up a few days. Our flight landed around 12:30 am on Tuesday morning in Pittsburgh. O and I followed the usual protocol - he went to retrieve the car from the far, far away extended parking and I went to baggage claim to retrieve our gear. As I stood outside waiting for O to come around with the car, I was FREEZING! It was cold and windy and dark and as cars came around I could see they all had snow on them. SNOW?! Wasn't I just wearing shorts?
By the time we got all the bags situated and drove home, it was around 1:30 or perhaps even 2 am. I walked into a very cold house. What's up with that? We had lowered the heat some while we were away but this felt VERY cold. And then both O and I realized that it was around 52 degrees in the house and, yep, the furnace wasn't working.
I wanted to get back in the car. Drive straight to the airport. And board the first plane back to San Diego. STAT! Curses!
Furnace not working. Very cold house. Very tired from a day of traveling and still sore from the race. Double curses.
I went upstairs to change and tried to picture myself in the warm sun. O went down to tinker with the furnace. I think I must have fallen asleep on the bed waiting because the next thing I knew I woke up wrapped in several blankets with a hat and hood on and about 6 layers of shirts/sweatshirts. Oh, and my compression socks. I was quite the fashion queen! But luckily, by 3 am, O had gotten the furnace to behave. Thank you O!
Great to be home right?! :)
In all seriousness though, it is nice to be back into our little routine and reunited with our furry Roxy dog! :)
This week I've just been taking it very easy. I think this is something I failed to do well last year - after my big races I always wanted to rush right into the next training cycle and by the end of the year I was mentally fresh, but not so much physically. It's a long year - I keep reminding myself! Plenty of time to train!
So I swam a little yesterday, rode a little today. Tomorrow I'm going to go to masters again (yippeee!!) and then sooner or later I will run. :) Next Monday I will start anew and I can't wait! Coach filled in my program for the weeks to come and I always get so excited to see what lies ahead. And I even added a 10K running race in there (per coach's suggestion) which is very excited because I LOVE to race - no matter the discipline!
I've used the extra time to get caught up on life again (it's surprising how far behind you can get in a span of 4 days) - doing some work, preparing for a nutrition class that I'm going to start teaching next week, catching up on emails and doing lots and lots of stinky laundry. The bag from the trip that contained our dirty laundry, some of which was wet, was LETHAL!
We are also taking advantage of the light training week by going on another short trip to West Virginia to see family over the Easter holiday. Very much looking forward to that! We are going to a baseball game! And no worries, I will be wearing my thermal underwear to that one... :)
So that is life after San Diego I suppose. :) Not too bad if you ask me!
Posted by beth at April 8, 2009 9:10 PM
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Dirty laundry from races is the worst! I just dump the bag in the washer and don't even care about mixing colors.
Posted by: Maggs at April 8, 2009 11:01 PM
Hey - I would be totally FINE if you two headed back to San Diego! Noodles date!! AND you could use the coupon... :) Yea! I'm on basically the same 'week-off' schedule as you. And it feels really good to take a step away. Gosh Beth - you're setting yourself up SO WELL for a really strong season! It WILL be great!!!!!!! Isn't it FUN looking at the next training block? A little scary...but exciting as well. I'll be thinking of you on Monday when I start mine... :)
It was SO GREAT to finally meet you! Congrats again on a really great season opener against a stupidly hard field (STACKED!), and getting the Clearwater Slot! Awesome!
Posted by: marit c-l at April 9, 2009 12:13 AM
Happy Easter to you and Oscar. And Roxy, too. Have a nice trip this weekend and stay warm! (I am wearing long underwear right now. Andrew busted me last night and I told him that when it snows in April, I will wear whatever I want!) Cranky furnaces are !@#$%^.
Posted by: Danielle Pedergraham at April 9, 2009 8:05 AM
Hey, welcome back home. We felt like you in December when we landed at JFK after a week in Hawaii and it took us 45 minutes to de-snow (is that a word?) and de-ice the car at the airport to get moving. But the summer is right around the corner so let us both look forward to it. Have a lovely Easter holidays.
Posted by: Angelina at April 9, 2009 10:54 AM