Rolling Along!!!

I have wanted to blog but just have not had the time to sit down and type!  So, here are my bullet points to ease my rambling mind:

  • I am excited (and nervous)!  This is the Masters Swim State Championships week and weekend!  Thousands of awesome swimmers down at UIC swimming for 3 days!  I have worked hard at getting back into swim shape to race these girls.  I am even tapering for this meet.  I did my hard run workout today and will do my hard bike workout tomorrow and then that is IT.  I am racing the 1000 on Thursday night and then Saturday and Sunday I am racing:  100IM, 200IM, 400IM, 50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free, 500 Free and all relays.  Needless to say I will be a mess when this is done.  The competition is stiff this year.  The gal who is seeded first in the 200 Free in my Age group is seeded at a 1:59…just to keep things in perspective!  So, I must rest (not that I will swim a sub 2 min 200, please…but so I do not get blown out of the water!).  And, doesn’t sitting on bleachers soaking wet all weekend sound like a good time?  LOL

 

  • I had a track workout today and I was so excited about it and it was a tough one.  The prescribed times were not too fast but the 50 mph wind gusts and rain were SUPER challenging.  But, the last thing I would even think of doing is miss my track workouts. I beg and beg to do them, so when they come, I better shut up and do them. Winds or not.  And, I nailed it.  I know people driving by thought I was nuts.  I would come around one bend and not be able to take one step forward…I was stopped dead in my track!  But, I can feel my run fitness coming back and yesterday I even ran 8 miles easy…at a pace faster than I raced my ½ Marathon at in March.  So, progress!

 

  • Speaking of the track,  2 weeks ago was my first track workout in over a year…and I was so nervous for it.  I barely slept the night before and when I was meeting Dave at the track I seriously was worried about what the workout was going to be and if I could will myself around that track.  Dave has not seen me run in over a year…as I was focusing on the IM and my Achilles last year…so on my first lap he peered over his glasses and let out a primal “ughhhhhhhh”.  And, I am not sure I was supposed to hear that…but I did.  He said, “You look like a Triathlete not a runner.”  (that is not a good thing, by the way)  And, he was right.  All my swimming (and honestly, it is not that much) creates massive shoulders and lats on me…and makes me look massive…and really clumsy on the track.  And, heavy.  I felt heavy.  Well, truth be told, I may be, but getting that rhythm back is so critical for me to run well….and I just had NO rhythm at all!  By the end of the track workout I did see a 2:xx for my 800 but not without a full blown effort.  BLAH!!!!

 

  • I had the pleasure of co-hosting Jessi Stensland this weekend for her Movement U Strength Clinic (http://www.gojessi.com/movementu/).  I have been corresponding with Jessi over the last few years and asking her to come to Chicago.  She asked if I could get the athletes and I said, “yep!” and we had nearly 21 at the clinic at ProKine Fitness.  It was awesome.  I highly recommend going to one of her strength clinics….it was extremely beneficial.  OH, and here is the truth…Jessi stayed with us at my house and slaved over the food for the clinic all day on Friday.  She made homemade hummus, etc.,.  On Saturday (day of the clinic) she made my breakfast as I packed the car (oranges, bananas, organic oats and almonds), then we had a snack mid day of organic greek yogurt and fruit…then for lunch these wraps with veggies, hummus and quinoa…then I had a Lara Bar mid day.  By the time I picked my kids up at my parents house at 6:30pm I NEEDED food.  No more bird food.  I needed MEAT. I was dying.  STARVING.  We did movement all day, but still….I still was hungry at Masters yesterday AM too!  No wonder she is tiny and ripped and I am a slob.

Here is a pic of myself, Kate and Jessi.  Jerome loves Jessi.  She is like the younger, hotter and ripped version of me.  But, Jerome would starve to death if he lived with her.

  • And, lastly, over the past 1 + or so, some of us local Triathlete Moms have been writing sections of a book a friend of ours is working on…about being a Triathlete and a Mom.  It is going to be super cute.  Yesterday we had the photo shoot for the book..and we all had our kids there.  It was fun and just nice to catch up with some of these gals that I spent so much time with over the years and especially before kids.  Great group!  (not sure when the book is coming out, but I will let you know).

This is not the professional pics, of course..we were not allowed to take pics inside.  So, this is the group outside:  L to R: Lindsay “hair” Zucco, Christine “I don’t have makeup” Palmquist, Elizabeth “guns” Waterstraat, ME in the visor, Jenny “I just had my 3rd child, help me!” Garrison and Carla “I got guns too” Hastert.

And, then, of course, me with Max Waterstraat.  He loves me.  He played Kid Rock and Lynyrd Skynyrd on my Iphone.

 


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