Kathleen's Adventures

I forgot to include the turkey, bacon, avocado, blue cheese club sandwich on the huge porch at Central Market last Saturday night as one of the huge highlights of my first week!  Wow that was good. Austin is absolutely kicking my butt.  I did a 10 mile run tonight and nearly died.  Are we noticing a trend here - that I have nearly died during/after each workout?  Hopefully that ends somewhat soon!  To be fair this run had a good 5 mile section in the middle that had far more up than down.  We just kept going up and up and up.  The last 2 miles were down or flat, so that made it okay.  I had a blast running with the girls and hope to run with them again.  It was 92 degrees at the end of the run at 8:45pm.  BUT it wasn't super humid and actually felt pretty good once the sun started going down. This morning I had a bit of an interesting "scare."  Sometime in the last 2 weeks or so I was in Houston, I felt something that had poppe...

Goodness - there is so much to say, but I'm beyond too tired to say it all!  Below are a few highlights from my first week or so in Austin: -  I did my first T3 ride Saturday.  We rode a "flatter" route and it still kicked my tail.  Kim and Tim were both in town so it was a treat to have old friends in my new place.  Near the end of the ride, I comforted myself by thinking "well, it can only get better from here" when I was dying.  The Austin terrain is either going to kill me or make me stronger...let's hope for the latter! -  Tonight I tried out the PAC tri group and it was awesome.  If I do their Tues/Thu open water swims and spin class on a regular basis I'm going to be ready to at least kick my own butt before too long (not necessarily sure about anyone else's though!).  I was also greeted with a huge rainbow as I walked on the little trail down to the lake on my way to the swim workout.  Doing a full workout in a lak...

Enough about me, now for my friends.  I have obviously been somewhat MIA on my blog, but recently I've also been MIA on all my friends' blogs.  Wow - they have done a lot - and I want to share! Liz had a smokin' PR at the Seattle Rock n Roll Marathon. Jeremy just took care of some "unfinished business" at IMCDA.  Jeremy was hit by a car training for his first half ironman in 2007.  It was bad.  But, in true ironheart fashion, he not only came back, but came back at twice the distance of that race he was training for.  He had not yet done a half ironman by the time CDA came along - he wanted to "finish what he started" three years ago in a GRAND way.  And that, he did. His hometown newspaper also wrote a nice article about his journey the week before his race.  I'm sure that was no pressure or anything! Greg .  This one really needs a post of its own, and hopefully it will get one soon.  Greg was married to Stephanie Johnson....

A LOT has gone on in the last week.  To say it has been a crazy one would be an understatement.  I guess the biggest news to come out of the week is that I'm stepping out of my comfort zone...about 165 miles out of my comfort zone.  I'm moving to Austin. Soon.   I interviewed for an internal audit position on Monday and had verbally accepted an offer by Tuesday afternoon.  I start work there Wednesday, July 21.  This is something I have wanted for as long as I've been away from Austin (6 years), but something I did nothing about until just recently.  I'm going to wear out the word "bittersweet" very soon, but it is the best way to describe the move.  A friend told me I was "sappy" - what her kids call sad and happy.  I think I like it!  I am soooooo excited about the new opportunity, new experience, new city, new people, all in a place I love.  At the same time I'm scared, overwhelmed, and beyond sad at the thought of leav...