and you think training is hard work....

Yep...made it into the salon yesterday to get my roots looked after...the foil and the goo that goes into my hair!!! And I got bangs for the first time in many years....they are apparently in for this year. Who knew??

whew...that feels better...

Got up today and got that run in. I feel much better about that!! I don't have a lot of extra time so when a workout goes wrong or time runs out, I get a bit panicked as I really want to do this half ironman and I don't have the opportunity to make up workouts really ever. So the workout was 3 times 8 minutes at my tempo run heart rate. Basically one notch below the barf zone. Today, I was done my second interval and I started to cough and then I gagged and stopped and gagged again!!! It was very, very close...ewwwy!!

Tomorrow I am up very early to get my 2.5 hour bike ride in. My buddy Shannon has agreed to meet me at 6 bells...thank-you Shannon!! And we should have all of the world's problems solved by about 6:45. Sunday calls for an 1:40 minute run so I am going to skip swimming and get up early again and get that run in.

My children make me laugh every single day. They are always doing something or saying something that makes me just stop dead in my tracks. We get so busy with our lives and my kids have taught me to just slow down a bit and enjoy the ride. Keep it simple. Yesterday, I had gotten cross with them in the morning for bugging each other and fighting. I felt really bad about it all day as I had that bummer run and my shitty mood was certainly nothing to do with them. And they are two little boys who love to rough house with each other. And I was really only upset because they were getting dirty....seriously, that should not be a big deal. So I bailed out of work early and went and got them and we hung out in the back yard for a bit. I was cleaning things up and Luke wanted to "help". He will be 2 later this month and when a 2 year old wants to help, you can guarantee the job will take 4 times longer than you planned. I asked him to pick up the leaves and put them in the garbage can. So he went and picked up the leaves...one....at....a...time!! And was SO proud of himself!

Happy Mother's Day!!!

And this is what I have to look forward to....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKXFqGUGdTk

the worst run...ever...in my life

Not a happy run today.

Was seriously ticked this morning after I finally made it home. But the only person to blame for this one was me. I knew I had a hard run to do today and I kind of blew it. Strike one was that I stayed up too late and I was tired from the week so should have been in bed in good time. But really...I found this book, I need to tell everyone about it, it is called "Rescuing da Vinci". A huge history buff right here and the book is about Europe's attempt to save their artwork and their culture and how they did it before the Nazis got their hands on it. For example, they encased many of the great marble statues (David, Moses etc.) in cloth and bricks to hopefully save them from bombing. They hid thousands of paintings and artifacts in mines. It really was fascinating, but by me getting into this book, helped to ruin my run this morning.

Strike two was that my heart rate would not register correctly on Garmin. I had to stop several times to adjust the strap. When I started out, it was reading 160...huh? Took me several attempts to get it right.

Strike three was that I was supposed to be doing 8 minute intervals at my tempo heart rate. Once Garmin got figured out, and I started the first tempo interval, I just could not make my legs go any faster. It was a really awful feeling. Then Strike 4 was that when I looked down at Garmin, I saw that I had forgot to reset the display to show me the lap time. I could not remember when I started and just frankly gave up on the whole thing. Walked about 30 minutes to get home almost crying the entire way!!

So there you have it. A tough one and I just quit. Not happy about doing that as I have that half marathon in a couple of weeks. Was really looking forward to running under 2 hours....now I am not so sure. I may have to readjust my goals and just do the run and my plan B has always been to register in the Regina half marathon in the fall and give it a good solid effort at that one. ARGH!!!!!

swimming today

Got up. Got dressed. Got out the door. Got parked. Walked into the building. Into the locker room. Undressed. Wandered onto the pool deck. Jumped into the water. Swam up and down and up and down and up and down the lane for about 50 minutes. Nothing to report. Kind of a boring morning at the pool.
Matthew had a soccer game last night. What fun!! The 6 and under teams play 3 on 3. No rules as far as I can tell, just run around the field after the ball...all of them, at once. They don't keep score but M's team was scoring a ton of goals so the coaches decided to start them well over 3/4 of the way down the field closer to M's team's goal posts. That helped. Only two kids left the field crying during the hour...one of those kids left twice. Amazing the power of a mom's kiss on a bruised shin!! I enjoyed it and Luke had a temper tantrum right there in the middle of everything as he wanted to play too...fell flat on his stomach and cried into the grass for several minutes, peeking up over his hands to see if I was watching him. Obviously you ignore it, but OH SO cute!!!