7 random things about me

Was tagged by Jenna: http://journeytoironman.blogspot.com/

1. I did not understand what love was until I had my children. To love someone unconditionally, no strings, no matter what...I did not understand what this meant. To see their precious little faces every day, I nearly start to cry.
2. I dislike it when people say "It must be so hard to be a working mom!" Nope. I love my work. I am very lucky to have a super flexible job. I have never been very good at having my world center around someone else's. Not even my kids. Which brings me to...
3. I often feel very guilty about not being built like my mom was, super nurturing, over the top maternal, stay at home mom who baked, cooked, crafty, sewed...bleh. That stuff is just NOT in me!!
4. I know, I know...everyone has heard this one...but we were in a very bad car vs train accident when I was a kid. There had been 4 other people who had died a that very crossing that summer. I think about it sometimes when life gets hard and darn it, I was left here for a reason! So suck it up and make the most of it!
5. I think there is just no beating McDonald's french fries. But only when they are hot.
6. If I could meet three people (alive or dead) they would be: Winston Churchill; Alex Bauman and Robert Downey Jr (omg I have such a crush on him....)
7. Recently, I put the following songs on my iPod: "Let's go Crazy!" and "Rasberry Beret" - Prince. I mean...why not??

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that's 10!!

Pushup challenge: Sets were 6, 8, 6, 6 and the max I did was 10!
Matthew counted them all so he was the witness!! #10 was a HUGE effort and he was so cute "C'mon Mom!! Get to 10!!"

bundle up

Wednesdays are usually my swim days. But Shaun had to leave for work super early today so I did not have time to get a swim in. But I did have time to do a run. But it was not a very good run. I was tired. It was cold. There was lots of new snow so I could not see any slippery spots. My legs were not doing what they were told. Still got about 45 minutes in the tank so can't complain too much about that. Had a long talk with Coach Justin yesterday. We had a big long talk about power meters. The pros the cons. The whys and the why nots. They are expensive...expensive as in I am not sure I can justify that expense just yet for my triathlon life. You know? I have two kids I really want to help pay for their schooling someday....this is the thing I always think about when an "I want" purchase comes up...

Registered for the Hypo Half Marathon in February. eek! Let's hope for some mild weather right around then.

Had to start my push-up challenge again. Had totally fallen off the wagon. Did my first week, first day reps Monday night. 6, 6, 4, 4, max was 8. Today is my first week, second day reps.

I am beating my sugar addiction! Yep. I caved yesterday and had a piece (one piece) of fresh toffee some bad person brought to the office...but seriously, that is the ONLY sweet thing I have had in one week! And the two strawberry coolers at the party on Saturday don't really count...or do they?

happy anniversary!!

To my tri-buddy Shannon!! It was one year ago today that she BEAT her Kona-qualifying husband in a marathon! In August, Mr. Kona-qualifier's best Ironman time was beat by another local fellow so to keep Mr. Kona-qualifier motivated, Shannon bought the finishing picture, with the time above, of the other guy and hung in on their fridge! THAT was a good one!!!

Anyway, back to me, did my bike ride this morning. AND my core workout. At the triathlon soire on Saturday night, one of the gals there was telling me she does her core workouts in time intervals...do the excercise for 45 seconds or a minute with 15-20 seconds rest. This works WAY better as I was always doing them by reps and then stopping and then daydreaming and then fiddling with my watch or my iPod...so if you just get down and watch the clock, the time goes by pretty quick AND you get the entire workout in! Who knew?

In other news, Coach Justin has been encouraging me to find some shorter races to do. 5km and 10km runs. He says "Enter them ALL!!!" So I was checking out the local running club website and lo and behold, they are starting a 5km Race Series in January. Every second Monday of the month they are holding a timed 5km race, and posting the results on the website every month. I told Justin about it and he got super excited....the most excited he has ever got...and told me FOR SURE enter those. So off I go to pretend I am a runner starting in January. Me thinks I am going to have to put my ego aside and be okay with dead last place!

how NOT to start a Monday...

My 5 year old fell down the stairs today. From the very top to the very bottom.

After telling him about 100 thousand times NOT to play on the stairs. He got the wind knocked out of him and I cannot believe that boy did not break something. He was terrified, I was terrified, we did not have a good morning. They say the trick is not to panic...people have told me I tend to stay calm in a crisis...the go to person when things are crazy...little do they know, it is all an act, but when it is your child, this was very different. He is banged up pretty bad, a nasty scrape all the way down his back (we have no carpets in our house) and I am sure he will be black and blue. Needless to say, I was WAY late today for my Monday morning meeting...but what the hell...somethings are just a little more important than money.