A Little Time to Just Be

Bought myself some bling to wear daily.

It has been just shy of 3 week since Victoria chewed me up and spit me out.  I have had ample time to reflect, although I think of something I could have done differently on a daily basis.  I've pondered it enough to know that I am going back next year to do a better job.  I want to own the course rather than it owning me.

The last 3 weeks have been incredibly busy but awesome.  After getting back we had a house to get ready to sell (mostly Derek's job) and I went to Denver for work.  But missing was routine training that has been a part of my fabric for the last two years.

When you are constantly striving to race longer distances there isn't time to slow down and truly enjoy what you are doing.  You build this base of endurance and you don't want to lose it, but it's not good to maintain that level of fitness (unless you're a professional athlete).  So since my race I have done exactly 1 spin class and today I ran 4 miles.  Thats it.

Knocking the dust off my shoes- literally.  Last run was a trail run.

I have some plans coming up for races but none of them are long or taxing so for the month of July I am going to enjoy my exercise.  I have a 5k in a few weeks and then plan to do some biking in MT.  Then in September I signed up for my normal Lake Stevens triathlon but instead of pushing myself to do the Olympic distance I happily registered for the sprint.  I like the sprint distance, it's fun and over in less than 90 minute so it doesn't eat up the entire day.  So happy races coming up.

But the end of September offers a big bike challenge- 200 plus miles in 3 days for the Tour DaVita.  So I have lots of biking time in front of me - but it's not a bike race so I don't need to focus on speed to make cut off times.  I just get to go have fun. (And sleep in a tent - not so fun- but it's all part of the experience right?)

I have been getting to have a lot of fun with my family and enjoying walks to the coffee shop followed by walks on the trail.  So slowing down while preparing to speed up is what I need right now, no matter how uncomfortable it feels.