Kathleen's Adventures

I found it hard to believe it was already time to race, and to race long when this race approached.  I had only been in the water for 3-4 weeks by that time and that just felt weird.  I had to take 10 days off swimming after my Lasik surgery in early March, but the truth is I hadn't been in the pool more than a handful of times before that.  I did do a 2.4 mile open water swim race the weekend before Lonestar, which helped the half not seem so long. I packed up my car Saturday morning and headed to Galveston.  It was smooth sailing until I hit I-45.  Surprise, surprise.  Once I exited on the island traffic was awful too.  All I wanted to do was get there and sit by the pool with Kim.  I got checked in and registered and finally made it to the pool, by which time the clouds had come out.  Oh well.  We went to dinner with several of my Austin friends and had a good time.  Kim and I were at the Moody Gardens hotel and Alisa, Mel...

Six weeks and six days to the big day.  I feel like my training is coming along nicely, but the next four weeks will be the hardest yet.  I'm somewhat banged up, but not necessarily any more than I'd expect to be at this point.  At one point my right shoulder, hip, knee, and foot were all messed up.  That was pretty awesome.  Now I'm about down to two of those bothering me at a time - that is much better than four!  I'm in PT twice a week and have been a while now for my right shoulder/neck/scapula area.  Its messed up from sitting at a desk all day long but it gives me trouble on the bike - big time.  It feels like I have a small child riding around with me stabbing me in the back and twisting the knife around while they are at it.  Its lovely.  I think we are finally making a little progress there though, so that is good. Getting a little loopy at 9:45pm/mile 17 of a Thu night long run My long runs are building back up from m...