Before

After

Before his hair was much longer and this was the compromised length/style.

After church, I took the kids, plus our neighbor friend, to the pool on campus at Georgia Tech.  It’s actually free for kids under 18, which is music to my thrifty ears!  We had no idea all these years they could come with us for free!  We’ll definitely be using it more often.  There’s also a rock climbing wall that I’d love to have them experience too!  We stopped for a milkshake on the way down, and stayed just long enough for them to burn through that sugar!

Hot tub was for “adults” only, lol! Actually you had to be 16 and up! Muzikchick and I in the hot tub!

Neo posing ever so nicely for my photo.

Brother and sister sitting nicely together…I’m glad I got a picture of it, because it didn’t last long

Hubs stayed back and worked on some photo editing and caught up on photography videos (with the Food Network in the background).  He’s had a busy couple of weeks at work and hopefully only one more, so he’s needed a little down time.

A brick is refers to training on two discipline during the same workout with minimal time in between them.  For example, biking several miles then running or swimming then running.

Today’s brick was 18 miles bike and a 4 mile run.  It went surprisingly well.  I have to admit when my alarm went off at 5:15am on a Saturday morning I considered various reasons as to why I wasn’t able to go, none of which I knew my training buddy would believe.  I laid in bed for about ten minutes and finally sat up and eventually made my way to getting ready.

The sky was beautiful this morning as the sun was coming up on the horizon.  I was a little late because I took a detour ie: I got lost, but found my way about 15 minutes late.

Starting out on the bike, I was sucking wind, but it was a long stretch with a gradual incline.  I was actually surprised when we arrived to the turn around as to how much energy I still had left.  The ride back was much better (what goes UP must come down).

Our run started out fast and again I was sucking wind and had to walk a little bit more, but tried hard to keep a 5 minute run/1 minute walk pace.  We averaged a 12 minute mile, which I was pretty happy with considering I’d not done THIS much training in 10 months.  It felt AMAZING to finish all by 9:30am and have the rest of the day open!

Hubs made me an awesome omelet with a heart shaped tomato on top!  I devoured it and the rest of the plate!

I took a shower and Hubs and the kid did some errands while I took a much needed nap!

Maybe it was the pressure laid on pretty thick by my training buddy, or maybe it was just the Tri-itch that I tend to get occassionally, but I signed up for my first sprint triathlon today.  I say that it’s my first sprint because I’ve honestly never done one before.  My first triathlon was an Olympic event and my second one was a half Ironman, so as you can see I tend to leap into things.

I’m actually really excited about it.  It’s a good length and one I don’t have to stress too much over, it’s a hour for the house and it fell on a weekend we didn’t have company, plans or would be out of town.  Hubs will be able to go and take pictures, so it should make for a great day!

A sprint triathlon is a 400 meter swim, 12 mile bike and 3.4 mile run.  Sprint can vary, but this is typically what you’ll see.  So the swim is about 8 laps in a pool or 16 lengths.  I did 20 this morning.  I ran a couple times this week and averaged about 3 miles, I’m hoping to pick up a little speed between now and then.  Ugh…the bike.  It’s my least favorite of the three, but I have a brand new bike which should make me feel more comforable.   Hopefully once you’re reading this I will have already put in 18 miles on the bike and on a 4-mile run.

An Olympic Triathlon is typically 3/4 mile swim or .9 miles, 24.8 miles on the bike and a 6.2 mile run.

A half Ironman is 1.2 mile swim, 56 mile bike and 13.1 mile run. Total distance = 70.3

An ironman is twice those distances, so 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike and 26.2 mile run, total distance = 140.6

Let the training begin!