Life, Post-Tri

I miss training for the Tri. I miss the group training sessions. I miss the people. I miss the coaches. I miss pushing myself harder than I ever had before. So, I'm not stopping. The tri crew and I are signing up for more. There's a sprint in Montauk in October and a few more races in September some or all of us will do. Tomorrow I'm riding with the tri girls out to Nyack- a ride I've been hoping to do for awhile now. Wednesday I met the gang for a 4.5 mile run in the park... based on how I ran, you wouldn't have thought I did a tri two weeks earlier! Needless to say if I don't keep up with the running I know my endurance will vanish. So i'm running and swimming and biking and pushing myself (not as hard but still) to keep going.

I'm experimenting with different classes at the gym that I was too wary to try earlier- went to an intense, crazy, weight/cardio/painful class lead by a US Army Master Trainer- I don't really know what that is but Gerald kicked my ass! He teased me throughout the hour and I broke a sweat within the first five minutes. For the first time, I was the most fit woman in the class and it felt good.

Afterwards I treated myself to a much needed pedicure- something I had been avoiding because of the awful looking and sometimes painful black toe on my left foot. I didn't want to risk getting an infection before the tri. But today I went and a sweet woman named Debbie made my worn out feet look purrrty. She gave me an extra 10 minute reflexology massage to work out the strained muscle in my calf and she told me I work out too much. Me? Me? Puhlease! I just laughed and sat back to enjoy her fingers digging into the pressure points along my ankles.

Since I'm not training the way I was, I have more time for all of those other things that were put on the back burner for a few months. This includes going out more, stepping back into my social life, spending more time at work and finally finishing my darn thesis. Did I mention how much I miss training?!

Congrats to Danny who placed second (5th overall) in his age group at the Insbrook Sprint this morning. Whoohooo!! What a Tri Rock Star!