Spring time in the rockies

This is what it looks like out my kitchen window this morning... can you say ick? I have a 9 mile run I am suppose to do this weekend in addition to swimming and cycling(!?) with the team tomorrow. Now while it is still coming down, it is possible it will stop soon and be melted by tomorrow, this is after all Denver and things like that happen all the time. But in the mean time I really need to come up with a game plan for this run. Do I just hit the treadmill at the rec center (oh my god I almost want to kill myself at the thought of 2 hours on a treadmill!) But the idea of 2 hours in that wet snow is not appealing at all either. Do I wait and see if it's melted by tomorrow afternoon? Will I be up to running 9 miles if I end up swimming and cycling tomorrow....oh decisions decisions!

Stuff

Food has been out of control. I need to get myself on track and start losing some weight. I guess it will not happen before my trip to Mexico in a couple of weeks. But I will need to get serious when I get back. An increase in exercise would certainly help! My running has been between slim and non existed. Have a swim assessment this week. Not that I need to much assessment to know that I need some real help! I plan to be able to swim with my face in the water this year! :) So I'm really looking forward to this swim training. The kick off for CWW was this past weekend. One of my friends went ahead and joined with me. I'm really excited to get started! I think this is going to be so much fun. My 1/2 marathon training is starting this week too. Although I'm doing a fairly easy schedule since my mileage has been pretty low I don't want to risk injury. I need to figure out a race schedule for the coming year. I'm certain that my goal is to do an Olympic distance. (although I truly can't imagine the swim at this point!) I just have to chose one. The boulder one is in July and the Aurora on in September. I have a fear of trying to do on in July already. And for some reason I'm guessing that Boulder is more hilly on the bike ride. Decisions, decisions! Must come up with a game plan!

Decision made

Well I'm bummed but I finally made the decision not to do another tri this year. Financially I just can't right now. (I'm going to have to start a fund for next year! ) I have signed up for at least one 10k as well as a class with a personal trainer that goes for 2 months, that will start on the 8th. I want to sign up with Tri club that is registering now and starts in ?January? So at this point my plan is to just get stronger and be ready to compete next season...I'm going to need a new bike at some point too...I don't think Sissy is going to cut it. But not right now.

And on that note had a pretty good ride yesterday. Forgot my helmet...grrrr...so had to pick up a new one at the bike store, but that's ok a spare is good. A couple of the girls that went with us were in from out of town and don't ride much. They rented some bikes. I struggled some, would guess in part because of the 6 mile run the day before and in part because of the absolute crap I've been eating! The route was not real hilly but had one 3 mileish hill which climbed about 300' (not big by many, maybe even most, people standards) and one smaller steeper hill, and then just some rolling stuff. 33.8 miles, 2 flats on the rented bikes, but other then that good.