I feel so boring these days yet this week I feel like I've run around non stop with my head cut off. I guess I've run around doing mostly boring stuff though, or work. Blah.
I did get to celebrate three new iron(wo)men last night which was lots of fun! Congrats HRTC club members to Laura, Tara, and Matt for awesome first-time performances at Ironman Canada and Ironman Louisville. Laura had a particularly interesting approach to her first ironman...one that did not technically start until just a couple of months before the race, because she had, you know, a BRAIN TUMOR removed ~4 months before the race. She had to recover for 2+ months from the surgery which did not leave much time to train. You would not have known it when she crossed the finish line a mere 12 hours and 36 minutes after starting her race last Sunday. She's a certified bada$$, but everyone already knew that anyway.
Last night I also taught Christie a very important lesson. We'll see how she performs this weekend.
Jon and I are heading to Austin tomorrow for the weekend - yyyeeeeeeeeesssssssssss!!!!! We are meeting my bestest friend in the world Kelly and her boyfriend Noah and plan to do all things Austin (they are coming in from San Diego). Whohoo!!! I just hope I have some energy to enjoy myself while I am there. Kelly is also racing the Austin Tri on Monday, so I imagine I'll see a lot of Houston people racing while I'm there. I'm ready to put on my cheerleader hat! (or would that be skirt?)
I have been wiped out all week from about eighteen million things happening at once. On top of that, I think my lovely POTS came to give me a quick knock in the head after Sunday's ride. Monday my head hurt so bad I could not see straight (...presumably from dehydration). On my run last night, three days after that lovely 86 mile ride, I was still having issues and was very lightheaded most of the time. So fun. I figured a little salt would be good and indulged in a turkey burger and fries afterward. I'm sure that will fix everything, right?
In other news, I have had two people say I look like I'm losing weight/look very fit, etc in the past week. Oh, how sweet they are because the scale has had an entirely different story to tell! Honestly I haven't so much been trying to be that good either, and don't see myself so much being good this weekend either. We have another Biggest Loser challenge starting up at work next week though and you bet I'll be participating. I need to get off the 4-5 lbs I have gained since CDA, but I am not in a huge hurry to do it...seeing 11x on the scale had not happened since I was 14 (until the weeks before CDA), so I know it does not come easily and will not come easily again this time either.
I did get to celebrate three new iron(wo)men last night which was lots of fun! Congrats HRTC club members to Laura, Tara, and Matt for awesome first-time performances at Ironman Canada and Ironman Louisville. Laura had a particularly interesting approach to her first ironman...one that did not technically start until just a couple of months before the race, because she had, you know, a BRAIN TUMOR removed ~4 months before the race. She had to recover for 2+ months from the surgery which did not leave much time to train. You would not have known it when she crossed the finish line a mere 12 hours and 36 minutes after starting her race last Sunday. She's a certified bada$$, but everyone already knew that anyway.
Last night I also taught Christie a very important lesson. We'll see how she performs this weekend.
Jon and I are heading to Austin tomorrow for the weekend - yyyeeeeeeeeesssssssssss!!!!! We are meeting my bestest friend in the world Kelly and her boyfriend Noah and plan to do all things Austin (they are coming in from San Diego). Whohoo!!! I just hope I have some energy to enjoy myself while I am there. Kelly is also racing the Austin Tri on Monday, so I imagine I'll see a lot of Houston people racing while I'm there. I'm ready to put on my cheerleader hat! (or would that be skirt?)
I have been wiped out all week from about eighteen million things happening at once. On top of that, I think my lovely POTS came to give me a quick knock in the head after Sunday's ride. Monday my head hurt so bad I could not see straight (...presumably from dehydration). On my run last night, three days after that lovely 86 mile ride, I was still having issues and was very lightheaded most of the time. So fun. I figured a little salt would be good and indulged in a turkey burger and fries afterward. I'm sure that will fix everything, right?
In other news, I have had two people say I look like I'm losing weight/look very fit, etc in the past week. Oh, how sweet they are because the scale has had an entirely different story to tell! Honestly I haven't so much been trying to be that good either, and don't see myself so much being good this weekend either. We have another Biggest Loser challenge starting up at work next week though and you bet I'll be participating. I need to get off the 4-5 lbs I have gained since CDA, but I am not in a huge hurry to do it...seeing 11x on the scale had not happened since I was 14 (until the weeks before CDA), so I know it does not come easily and will not come easily again this time either.
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I on the other hand have been picking up lost poundage from the side of the road and adopting it.