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August 9, 2010 · 2:21 pm

I Wanna Run!

Ah, Monday.

Well, Tate completely ROCKED his first triathlon on Saturday!  As usually he took the whole 28.5 miles of mountain biking, whitewater kayaking, and uphill running in stride.  He is an excellent athlete and next year he plans on actually training for the event.  Without training he squeezed in 2nd in his division!  I am so proud of him! He was only a wee bit sore on Sunday.

The before

The after (refueling and looking just a tiny bit tired!)

My niece spent the day with me and she was quite the little athlete herself!  She LOVES these jumpy things and they had 3 at the starting area.  She jumped for 7 hours!

The jumping was only interrupted by participating in the 2.5 block 8 and 9 year olds race.

Being around all of those athletes was really inspiring and I woke up Sunday morning excited to run.  I hadn’t run in three weeks so I was unsure at first how my body would handle it.  I ended up running 40 minutes with just a few one minute walking breaks and feeling great.  The neighborhood dogs came with me and, while I have no desire to have a dog of my own, I love running with dogs.  They always look so happy to be running!

The run got me thinking about my workouts for the week so I decided to set some goals for the next 7 days.

Today is a yoga, arms, and maybe run day.

What are your exercise goals for the week?

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August 7, 2010 · 1:02 pm

Captain’s Challenge

Happy Saturday!

I am gearing up for an action packed day.  Well, I won’t actually be involved  in most of the action but it’s still exciting, Tate is doing Captain Thurmond’s Challenge today!  This triathlon is 28.5 miles of biking, whitewater kayaking, and running.   Relay teams are a popular option but not for my hubs, he is a one man team!  The run at the end is 8.5 miles with the first 5.5 miles uphill!  The Challenge is in Fayetteville, West Virginia, a town where we lived for the summers from 1998-2001 while working as whitewater raft guides, it’s going to be fun to spend the day there.

This is his first triathlon and I have no doubt he is going to ROCK IT!

This morning I made Tate a huge bowl of oats and then snuck in a 12 minute yoga session while my hard boiled eggs were cooking.  Brief but effective, I was correct in Thursdays prediction that I would be SORE and the yoga really warmed me up for the day.

It’s an arms day for me.  I am working to get back on my daily arms/abs, I was derailed a few times over the last two months due to illness.  In my car, aka my closet, I keep this great weight set that I bought at the Salvation Army last week.

Have weights, will travel!  So today I plan to fit in some exercises while waiting for Tate at one of the transition areas.

Have a great day!

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