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are what I have right now. There are just some plain freakin' awesome people in the tri world, and they can do an amazing job of making you feel pretty good when you are feeling a little down and unsure of yourself.

See Greyhound's ode to me and two other awesome girls (MisheleK and Jane) here.

Thanks to him for enabling me to go to sleep tonight with a big smile on my face, and also thanks to him for bragging on my little rockstar law school friend who wouldn't brag about herself if her life depended on it!

As for training, it is going pretty well. I ran an easy 6 miles at the park last night and it felt pretty good. I've been on my trainer twice this week already (definitely a record) and am planning a lovely 3 hour trainer session tomorrow night in place of my long ride this weekend. I'm playing this weekend, and definitely looking forward to it. My niece Bennett is turning 1 and I'm going to celebrate in San Antonio with her, then I'm heading to Austin to run the 3M 1/2 marathon on Sunday. I'm super excited about the race - it was the first half marathon I ever ran, 4 years ago. I'm also spending the night with Caitlin and Peter in Austin which I'm looking forward to as well. We shall see what my new and improved speedy legs have to offer on Sunday. My half marathon pr is 2:21:59. My splits at the marathon last week were 2:11 and 2:19, so one would hope I will walk away this weekend with a new half marathon pr. This new, uncharted territory stuff is kind of fun!!

It's bedtime (past it actually...). This masters swimming stuff (T/TH at 6am) brings new importance to being asleep before the 10 o'clock news.

Comments

Go Mom Go said…
I found your blog from Greyhound. Congrats on you success and I will keep checking back to see how you are doing!
greyhound said…
Ah, shucks. It costs nothing to be nice, and you definitely deserve the props. I get so much energy from watching folks like you becoming something most people can't even bring themselves to dream about.
Liam O'Connell said…
kathleen

got to you through greyhound. i hope your half went well this morning. see u at the pool

Liam
Anyone that gets props from Greyhound is always worth the read.

I look forward to following your progress.

Stay tuned...

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