Sportin' the Tri for the Cure

Now back to our regular schedule.....


Sweaty Betty-----Nice----------->

I have a long weekend! After the concert I knew I wasn't going to want to work Thursday so I took the day off...and who wants to go back to work on Friday, so I took another day! After only about 5 hours sleep, (since I didn't get to bed until about 1 a.m. and can't ever sleep in!) I went out to do my planned 6 mile run.....as my previous post was titled I felt like I was flying...not that I was going that fast but I sure felt light on my feet for some reason. Even after a few Sweaty Betty's last night, very good stuff by the way! The first 3 miles were most enjoyable...after that it got a little more difficult and the last mile not so much fun, but all in all a very good run. I spent some time thinking about what I have coming up in the next month or so. Tri for the Cure is next weekend already! And then there is something every weekend after that for the month of August....well that's if I sign up for the Creek Streak Olympic, which I'm planning on. So I have 3 tri's and I'm thinking of a 10k....does that sound like to much for one month? Yes kind of. I will need to be careful not to overdo it and get hurt but I don't think that will be a problem. I will use Tri for the Cure and the 10k as training. So any way part the reason I started thinking about all of this is that I was sportin' all the Tri for the Cure stuff today.Which by the way I love! This is the shirt from 2008 race. My first tri, not only do I love it because of that, but I love the fit. And or course I rarely run without my fav Tri for the Cure cap!


Sweaty Julie---not so nice------ :)

Perks and no Pain

Volunteer! What a great time I had volunteering at the finish line of the Boulder Peak Tri this past weekend, and you end up with a goody bag and a t-shirt. (I kind of like this one too! Pretty blue!) It is so much fun to see the reactions of everyone when they finish. I loved that almost everyone finished looking strong and happy. Somewhat unlike the finish line of a marathon. I saw lots of pain on many of those faces. If you've never volunteered I highly recommend it. It's fun! And best of all I got to see Kathleen from Dare To Dream finish. If you haven't read her race report hop on over and read it. She did a fabulous job in overcoming some pretty major obstacles that were trying to get in her way.

Baby steps. So this week is the week I plan to test the waters and see if I can actually do that Olympic distance tri I've been thinking/training for. Creek Streak Tri . My plan is to start with a 1500m swim tomorrow at the Stroke & Stride . I'm skipping the run part because I know I'm slow and don't want to be last. :) Ok that's only part of the reason. I also have a long run I need to do Friday and don't want to mess that up. And then my next baby step, I'm assuming here that the swim goes well. I've signed up to do an oly rehearsal with CWW on Sunday. Now if all goes well I will go ahead and sign up. I for the Creek Streak. There are not a lot of choices for oly tri's especially in August so I picked this one because I just don't feel confident in my abilities to do Rattlesnake and the only other one I saw was in Boulder but it's the evening/afternoon one and I wasn't sure that's what I wanted to do. So that leaves Creek Streak. While the course is not that exciting it is known. I'll be doing Tri for the Cure out there the weekend before as I've done the last 2 years as well as Crescent moon last year. Baby steps that's what I'm taking.