Long time, no post.
No particular reason; not feeling particularly inspired (or uninspired). Just not posting. You know how that goes.
Thanksgiving has come and gone in a BLINK. Hubby and I hosted this year. Served turkey and stuffing to 17 friends and family in total.
Warren's son spend the holiday with his mom, but we had the great honor of having his daughter, her fiancee and one of their friends join us for dinner. That really was very nice.
Our good golf friends, Paul and Deb, also joined us for dinner. They don't have other family here in Minneapolis, so we invited them to join the madness at our house. It was great to have them with us.
The other really cool part of the day is that Daughter and Fiancee both ran their very first 5K Thanksgiving morning! They joined Hubby, my great running pals Mary, Marcia, Gary and Marty and their families, me and 12,000 other runners at the TurkeyDay 5K held in downtown Minneapolis.
It was a blast and everyone did well. I'm very proud of them all for getting out there and getting hooked by the running bug.
Hubby and I had the rest of the weekend off. Slept late; ate leftovers; visited friends; slept some more. It was perfect.
Today, back to work and back to base training in earnest.
I took my base test with Coach Dan at SCS Multisport. I have some minor corrections to work on with my swim; a ton of work to do to increase power and endurance on the bike; and a few things to work on with my run, not the least of which is SPEED.
I decided to have him start sending me workouts now (which is just a polite way of saying I'll pay him to torture me). I've been enjoying my workouts waaaay too much lately, which just means I have not been working out with any amount of real effort.
He started me out today with 2050 yards in the pool, working on some drills and some builds; then I spent 40 minutes on my torture device, er I mean bike trainer.
YEEEECCCCCH.
Now I know that I'll have to become friends with my bike trainer, as I'll be sitting in the saddle a lot over the winter.
It is amazing how much tougher it is to ride the trainer than it is to ride outside.
But ride I will, whenever Coach Dan tells me to.
Looks like the long journey to Ironman Wisconsin has officially begun!
2 comments:
What is missing here is a trainer to tell me to just do it!?
Loved your Thanksgiving report.. lots of folks joining in the run.
Sweet.
You guys had a great Thanksgiving- yea! Congrats to your newbie racers and the rest of your pack. Good job with the swimming and bike riding. You're off to a great start!
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