Fit & Fun: Tri Training

Sprint Tris are not something I excel at. I come in around the 75% or maybe even lower. I mean in High School I definitely would have dropped out of the club that had me beating only like 25% of people. Cause I mean that is a failure right? That is one way to look at it. Another way to look at it. Is that two times now I have trained for something a lot of bodies can't do or choose not to do.  Then I finish that. I don't finish last even. I don't even finish in the last 100. To be exact I beat 144 women across the finish line. :P That really isn't the point. But whatever way you view it, I see as a win. Here are my 2017 results and then my 2015 results---SO CLOSE TO EACHOTHER! Check out how much faster my transition times were! No I will never be the fastest in my age group. And truthfully I don't want to train hard enough to not be that person. But for two years, I have trained and bettered myself. I said I wanted to go faster. But I went 13 seconds slo

Here we are! Almost there. I don't have a lot of time cause I need to go get my clothes all set and ready. My sister and her family are leaving the country tomorrow. So I need to get everything ready so I can run around saying goodbye and go pick up my Tri packet. This week, I have been on my bike and in the pool. And working hard. And on Sunday the Tri happens. Wednesday I got a massage. Which did help my body loosen up. I had this very young massage therapist will my muscles to release. Which was very different from my regular massage therapist (who is out of town) who is in her 50s and is firm but gentle. Alas, I needed a massage so I went to a local spot and I am glad I did. I am still a bit sore but by Sunday I will be all good. SO my game plan for SUNDAY. On Saturday I will be doing a bit of carb loading and eating a good amount of protein. I may eat a Five Guys :P though spaghetti is always a great carb loading meal....though i stay away from THAT much gluten. I will

It isn't easy to blog about training. It isn't easy to tell people when you fail to do something 100% "right." But for a person training for a triathlon. I think it is better to realize you can do something imperfectly and succeed. Then just tell you that unless you hit every work out you will fail. That unless you have been an athlete trained by the best coaches and have the most expensive shoes you are not worth anyone's time. Worth...is it something earned? Is it something from within? Who gives it to you? I spent Saturday with my extended family. And I thought about some of that. As I watched the kids scramble over each other for attention and yell in facsination at each other. As I had to explain to the aunts who I see a couple times of year I don't have THAT job anymore now I am just a retail worker. And no I don't have a boyfriend anymore...as my sister runs after her two gorgeous children. I try to to remember my worth and my choice to live the l