It's been a Month?!?!

What just happened?  An entire month – that’s what happened! 

Most of November was spent recuperating from my bout with pneumonia and some unfortunate side effects (tendinitis) of my antibiotic used fight said illness.  Towards the end of the month I realized I better get myself moving because June is right around the corner.

On your mark!

Just a little scrape

 I managed to get in a little ‘virtual’ race with Miss M on Thanksgiving.  It was a nice simple mile run for the #bebravebethankful race benefiting one of our TriFecta team members who is battling ALS; it was my first actual run effort in about 4 weeks.  

Meryl fell about a quarter mile in but pushed through and we had a nice little jog.  I 'let' her win.

Half way through

But two days later I hit the pavement for real, expecting a huge disappointment in my aerobic ability and time. 


Much to my surprise, the 3 miles passed with ease and I didn’t lose a second off my time. 

A few days ago I made it back into the pool- yes only the 2^nd time since September…  I have to say it wasn’t as bad as I expected and although I have ground to cover it’s not as much as I planned.

I have been spinning for the last month or so and was hoping that would transfer over to my road bike; but, I found out on Wednesday that isn’t true.  What should have been a simple 30 minute ride was disappointingly slow and my legs were TIRED! Biking has been my biggest ‘strength.'  I  have a lot of work ahead of me - I need to get back to where I was in September, and then get faster, and practice hills.   

My training calendar is planned all the way out until June 12^th.  When I think about 6 months conceptually it seems very distant. But when I look at it from the work outs I have to complete, it is going to be here before I know it. 

Here’s hoping Santa brings me lots of fun Triathlon gear to make the training a little more fun!  In case Santa asks- this is a bag I really want from Betty Designs.