It has been a busy month with training, dogs, family and work. All is going really well and training is really starting to get going. I'm really enjoying getting to know all my TNT tri teammates and (really) the challenge of the workouts as I start to get serious about the tri season.
We had our first team workout February 6th during the Indy ice/snowpacalypse 2011. The morning of our run we got 5" of unexpected snow. It took me 30 minutes to get my 4x4 FJ Cruiser the 2.5 miles from our house to the Eagle Creek 56th street entrance (normally about 5 minutes). Here are a few pics (including a shot of my yaktrax):
I'm shivering in the ultra reflective purple:
And our fun breakfast later (Allen got out of bed to join us):
The big challenge to training lately has been my busy work travel. Depending on where I go, this can mean excruciating miles on the dreadmill in a Memphis hotel gym (why is 4 miles on a treadmill like 15 miles outside???) or gorgeous runs on Santa Monica Pier in California:
Right now I'm flying to Orlando for a 1 day work trip (on flight wifi=awesome). I'm looking forward to 80 degree weather but no workout in the heat; I rode on my boring bike trainer today and tomorrow's my rest day. :)
I better enjoy the rest day as Saturday is our first training ride and the forecast is for 43 and pouring rain. Lovely. I'll be on my sturdy Trek road bike as my 2009 Felt tri bike is in the shop due to a recall. It's described as risk of "catastrophic fork failure" (how could fork failure be NON catastrophic???). Hopefully it will be fixed soon.....
In other news, thanks to all of your generous support, my fundraising is going well!!! I'm nearly 90% of my way to my goal and the top fundraiser on my team! I am very lucky to have such wonderful friends and family. It makes all this training and cramming workouts in worth it. The LLS does so much for research and patients, and I am so proud to help out this wonderful organization.
Well, that's it for now. Panga sends her hello's as well!
All the best. Please consider supporting my mission to fight blood cancers!
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Farewell pic from the plane....
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