It has been intense these last couple of weeks. Jerome was in Europe on business and I was flying solo. Usually I do not mind flying solo, but the kicker is our house is going on the market on Thursday and we have a LOT of crap to do. I do not like to clean. In fact, I had to call in the big guns last weekend and have my sister come up and help me. I think she was completely freaked out at the amount of work I had to do…but she has been great and we really hammered through some major organizational and cleaning issues in this house. Thank goodness.
On Friday night, I was close…close to tears. I had been not only been working all day every day but training and being mom…Jerome’s flight was cancelled due to our snow storm….I just wanted to lay in my bed and sleep! But, then, I got over myself and realized single parents do this ALL the time and they don’t complain, so why should I. So, I shut up and went to bed with my kids at 8:30pm and started the weekend.
The body is amazing, really. Not only have I been training normally, but I have been on the rivet in other areas of my life…and almost like pure, animalistic adrenaline is rushing through my veins. I put my head on my pillow and wake up 7-9 hours later ready for the next day. Thank goodness I am sleeping well. I got up early, did my brick and was off coaching Graham’s basketball game before 10am. I really have enjoyed doing this and it is honestly the highlight of my week. Working with these boys has been challenging but really just pure fun (and a tad exhausting!).
I had been looking forward to – and trash talking – about our bike TT that was on Sunday. Every so often, I do these computrainer bike TTs. They are so so hard. Pure agony for a 10k. Well, for some insane reason, I decided to swim Masters early Sunday AM for 5,000 yards and then drive to the TTs and then DO 2 of them back to back…with only a handful of minutes of rest in between the TTs….I have known some people (crazy) to do this before and I thought, “why not?”
See, this is exactly NOT like me. I am usually always somewhat rested for all my races…whether it be swimming or a run race 5k, I do NOT like going into events super tired. But, I was reminded yesterday how resilient the body is and how it is so amazing if in good shape.
So, I swam and swam and swam with the team Sunday AM…then, showered, talked and drank my Recovery Drink…then, I was trash talking Elizabeth and Ben on my drive down to the TT and stopped and ate. I arrived at the TT about 90 minutes before my start. I saw Elizabeth and was trash talking (ok, I was not) with her…she was about 1 hour before my wave. Anyway, I tried to warm up….but I was already so warmed up from swimming that I just spun about 5 minutes and talked for the remaining 85 minutes.
I jumped on my bike for my TT and I knew what the time was to beat and I was in the later heat (s)…so I just put on my IPod (yes, I listened to music for this) and rode hard. The room is hot and dripping with testosterone – all day hundreds of riders are in and out of this bike shop. 16 computrainer banks run for most of the day.
Ok, this hurt badly. I knew it would hurt…and it always does, but this TT was a rolling course…for me, a hair harder than the flat course I did here last time. I was working so hard and breathing so hard and I just wanted to vomit. But, I finished up and had the 2nd (at the time) fastest OA time. I was trashed. Elizabeth came over to torture me – as she drank her coffee and ate her PB Bagel – I sipped her coffee because I needed SOMETHING to jolt me into doing this again. Honestly, I was worried about the 2nd one – I am usually much more conservative than this! What am I doing!!?
My good friends John and Tracy set up for the 2nd TT and I got to talking to them – they were thinking I as nuts, but they did an Indoor TRI earlier that AM…geez!! At least I just swam! Anyway, they started the 2nd TT and I really was going to pay big time for my stupidness. Elizabeth asked if I needed a leash to reign myself in on this one – but she got smart and left. I am sure she did not want to watch the carnage for the 2nd TT.
I did it – hung on…power dropped by 20watts for test #2! That is A LOT….goes to show you how badly I suffered for TT #1….I mean I left it all out there, so the fact that I could even turn my legs over for #2 was purely a mental game.
After the 2nd TT it is now 1:30pm and I am OVER it. I can’t even cool down I am so tired. I get off my bike and talk some more (that is why I like these events, I can talk to people!) and change, go to Panera (next store) and drive home. My phone had died so I just drove home in silence. I was dizzy, exhausted and nauseous.
I got home…Jerome was outside painting the shutters and then tiling the shower upstairs. I could not even take a shower. I sat down, did some more trash talking on the computer, answered emails and played on Facebook. That is all I could muster.
Then, no sooner had I sat down, then I had to get up to meet with our builder and architect at our lot to go over the details of the house and how we want the house set up on our LOT..so we were outside in the snow forever walking our lot all while the kids had a snowball fight. I was so hungry now that I could not focus on anything but where we were going for dinner!
I got home at 6:30pm and took a shower, sat on the couch, watched the Oscars and worked. Finally!
I woke up this AM no worse for the wear but starving AND still a little nauseous! I am heading out to go running soon (edit: maybe later now) but Jerome woke me up at 5:15am to work on the tile in the shower. He has to get this shower done and needs to get to work, so this is the only time, of course. Did you know Home Depot opens at 6am? That helped us this morning!
The best news: The house goes up on the market on Thursday and we leave for Tucson! Of course…so looking forward to some R&R…sleep, warmth and Mt. Lemmon! I may sleep the entire weekend in the sun.
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