'I can do this all day long'

'I am fit, I am strong, I can do this all day long!' - This is the borrowed mantra that saw me get through a hour & 1/2 run session. Last night I was due for my long run of the week. The squad training at the runners club was only going to be a 1/2 hour so I went down early and did slow laps of the oval for an hour and then joined the squad for run, walk & sprints for the last 1/2 hour. Then heading home to my family whom I have almost forgotten what they look like this week.. Aaron had the children washed, feed and homework done and the yummiest dinner waiting on the table for me.. How lucky am I? xxxxxx

This morning it was back to the pool for a 6am start.. Worked more on the tucking of the chin and sinking bottom and added to that a left arm that wants to help out the right one. But I am still in the fast lane and am keeping up and feeling really good at the end of the sessions.

I am meeting some amazing people, being invited on rides & runs left and right and really having the time of my life. I am resting now until tomorrow night when I have another Runners Club session. I am heading to bed at 8.30pm every night and am missing my little family so am going to spend the evening giving them some attention.

Busy few days coming up with training - Will update as we go! xxxxxx

Sleeping, sleeping and more sleeping....

Hiya all,

City 2 Surf... such a fun event. The sun was shining and it was such a beautiful day to be out and enjoying. Courts did really well and was happy to go off and run her own race. Gem as sticking with her Mum. She ran the whole 5km... very proud.. She is not keen on just running so I have decided not keep pushing her. She loves the swimming and is still enjoying the bike riding. She will still have to do some running for her Trystar training.

I used the 5km City 2 surf as training really because I had to run at Gemma's slow pace.. but I still enjoyed the day. It did help stretch out the legs from Saturdays 56km ride and get the butt moving which quite frankly is still not quite recovered.

I did however drop into the bike shop and pick up a new seat for Stella, one recommended by the ladies at the bikeshop as a seat with alot more give. That and the knicks (padded pants) seems to have done the trick.. now just to get out and toughen up my butt.

Swim training at the pool 6am yesterday morning and boy what a fantastic session. I put myself into the medium lane, after two laps the coach asks me to move to the fast lane. (First time in my life I have ever been asked to move to a faster lane) So off I go doing the drills. Coach tells me that I am lifting my head, try tucking my chin down and that will stop the sinking butt. At this point I have nothing to lose. I give it a go and guess what NO MORE SINKING BUTT... WWWWOOOOOOHHHHOOOOOOOO!

In the afternoon, the girls had swim squad and then off to a bike riding and road sense lesson for the girls and I.. Girls did really well and I just kicked along on Stella, enjoying the ride.

This morning Stella and I hit the road with a new group of really nice ladies. One of whom has done 6 Ironman events (crazy chick) and we managed to cover almost 30kms this morning without even thinking about... I was too busy chatting to worry about anything else... and I kept up easily. Maybe I am getting better at this caper than I thought.

Poor Aaron doesn't get to see me any more... When I am not waving goodbye off to either training or some event... I am harrassing him 'Is dinner ready yet? I'm starved!' or I am falling asleep on the lounge and he is having to put me to bed. Usually around the same time as the kids. Heehehehe... I have no idea how I will cope when he goes back to work!

Runners club tonight for my long run and swimming again in the morning. Will let you know how I go.

Happy exercising xxxxxxx

56.69kms and one very sore bottom

Stella got a new seat this week... not the mountain bike lounge chair seat anymore but a super slick racing seat that helps her go very fast... one teeny tiny problem.. I am having trouble seating down some 6hours after my ride... I am sitting just on one cheek while typing this blog... oooohhhhhhhhh.. and I had to buy the padded pants in preparation.. not pretty I am going to say out loud.

But the good news is I kepted up with the group on the long ride today and learnt how to draft in strong winds... I wasn't even such a nanna on the hills today.. and at the end of the ride noticed that we had almost done 57km... wwwooooohhhhooo.

We have the city 2 surf tommorrow and the girls and I are doing the 5km run.. Next week life as we know it will cease, because all we have time for is work/school and training. Will do a quick blog tomorrow to let you know just how well we did..

Training Program - 93 pages long

Hi,
Having spoken to Coach Crealy last week about the need to put together a training program to get my self ready for the coming months. She requests that I send her a list of all my planned events along with a timetable of when I am able to train.. Then I get to wait nervously while she works on the perfect program for her little perfectionist. Then it arrives... all 93 pages of it... and added to the pain is that the actual program section is in miles and yards so I had to do the conversions.. 93 pages...

While having a look at my 93 page program, the have-a-go program for the womens tri arrives.. and as I have paid the fee for the girls and I to do this program I am now thinking of how to incorporate it into the one Sarah has sent through.. Now if that is not enough, Gem has swim squad twice a week and both girls have Trystars (Triathlon for kids) training Friday afternoons.
Boy life is getting a)very busy and if I am not careful b) very confusing. So I have the calender off the wall. Pieces of paper all over the desk trying to combine programs and list events and where everyone has to be on each day... I need a much bigger calender.

I head to bed for a much needed early night and Stella and me hit the road for a 20km ride this morning, again freezing the wazoo out of myself until about 15 mins in.. then I notice the sun is out, birds are chirping.. and I am flying along.. I did my 20km in around 45 mins so very happy with that..

Going for a short 3.7km run with the girls this afternoon to get into the swing of things for the City 2 Surf on Sunday. I love my life.

A happy little note - Aaron is recovering nicely from his hernia operation. He is going crazy from having to rest and relax and do nothing but he is doing really well. He plans to be the official team photographer for us on Sunday.

Busy Girl

Hiya All,

For those of you interested here is my racing schedule until May 2011. I feel tired already.

17.10.10 - City 2 Surf Fun Run 5km (with girls)
24.10.10 - Margaret River Fun Run 4km (with girls)
31.10.10 - Club 1 Triathlon 250/12/2
28.11.10 - Women's Triathlon 200/10/2
19.12.10 - Club 2 Triathlon 250/12/2.5
16.01.11 - Club 3 Triathlon 250/12/2.5
06.02.11 - Club 4 Triathlon 250/12/2.5
27.02.11 - Club 5 Triathlon (maybe do 750/20/5)
20.03.11 - Club 6 Triathlon 750/20/5
17.04.11 - Club Champs 750/20/5
07.05.11 - 1/2 Ironman Busso - Team Confessions - Run leg 21.1kms

Rest Day Antics & an Early Morning Ride on Stella

So my definition of a rest day is curling up on the couch with a nanny blanket and a chic flick and not moving for the entire day. Why is it that everyone else can't get on board with this idea. Yesterday was my rest day after a very tiring weekend exercise wise. And I had to go to work and actually work. What is with that! Then when I get home Aaron annouces that we really should move the house around like I had suggested 6 months ago, and as his parents are coming tomorrow we should do it now... so the evening was spent moving heavy furniture, vacuuming, dusting, making beds.... aaaaarrrrrgggghhhh... I have renamed moving heavy furniture strength training..

So this morning I had set the alarm for 5.05AM (only crazy people get up this early) and spent the next half an hour fighting with the nagging woman inside my head.. I really wanted to roll over and go back to sleep, but she wasn't having a bar of it... I finally gave it and got up and dressed and out onto Stella. I can say categorically that I did NOT enjoy the first 15 mins. It was icey cold.. my fingers and ears hurt they were so cold.. Then something kicked in about the time the sun fully rose and I was riding along the beach matching pace with a seagull feeling amazing. So I put my head down and headed for the lighthouse and home again. In total 25kms in 1hour.. Then back home to get ready for work and out the door before 8am... I totally love school holidays and not having to get the kids off to school.

After work today I am heading out for a 1/2 hour on Stella and a short run around the lake to get my legs running again.

WOOOOOHOOOOOO - Getting the exercise buzz back... xxxx

Another stack on Stella..50km ride & Cross Country Struggle

So now that Netball is finished I went on a group ride on Saturday morning... It was nice to get on Stella and after my initial nerves settled it felt amazing to be out spinning those wheels. I was doing ok in the first 25kms... the wind was behind us.. on the way back we had head wind the whole way and I really had to work hard to keep up. So we reach town and had maybe 8km left to ride... approach the busiest set of traffic lights in Bunbury on a Saturday morning and I unclick from the pedal put my feet down and just toppled over (in front of the group)... My legs just decided to stop working.. Mortifying.. I picked myself up and finished the ride and am trying very hard to just forget the stack.. Apparently their are two types of cyclists, those that have fallen off and those that are going too.. It seems I am in both categories... Sarah has set a challenge for the next 10 days... To stay on Stella... Yeah right... not likely in my case..

Cross Country was yesterday... I went with the plan of doing a 5km run, and as the course was just around the corner from home I decided to jog there do my run and walk home.. nice in theory... I start the jog and really struggled... I walked/ran the approx 2.5km there and then really struggled to finish 2.5kms of the 5km.. I walked/jog home but have really lost some ground with my training.. With my first Tri in only 4 weeks I have alot of work to do... Man I hadn't realised it was that close... blind panic is setting in....

Rest day today and then will be stepping up the training...