Tri Dreaming

I was motivated by all the blog updates and thought I should follow suit. We'll start with a quick recap since Saturday...

Sunday I went to Tom's spin class at 8:45. He's fun and always smiling which is nice. I used to go to his 5:30 am Monday classes all the time, but that was when I had a job and the classes weren't as full. Since then, there are no bikes left and I have no true reason to pull myself out of bed that early considering I teach the noon class on that day. Point being... I miss his classes, and catching up with him. Hopefully once I start my new job I'll be able to get in there more often. They also just started a body pump class in the same time slot so hopefully some of the cyclists will be drawn in that direction, leaving a bike for me. I think it might be too much work to bring in my bike and trainer for an hour class. We'll see how badly I need the motivation I guess. Sunday also led me to spending a great deal of money on X country ski boots, however they are super nice and came with free pilot bindings so that was a deal. Actually, they have been charged so I need to pay them off quickly. I owe MMM a lot!!! :) Finalized the day with body pump which was nice since I have been slacking on it lately. I definitely struggle through the later classes though, I seem to run out of energy by then. It was still good though!

Monday it was requested that I switch class times, requiring me to teach the 5:00 intro class and 5:30 regular class. It went well and everyone seemed to have fun. I had a great number of people tell me that I really worked them hard so that made me happy. I don't often attend the regular 5:30 class, but I know that my style of teaching differs greatly then the heavy rock methods of Eric. Other than that I wandered around the stores aimlessly trying to figure out what to buy people for xmas. I only purchased something for my sister so I'm really not doing well. Watched some football that night and went to bed fairly early. I'm trying to ward off a cold that might be lurking around the bend. I have too many workouts planned for the week for me to get sick now!

Today I attended the step class at 8:30 (which I am making great progress in, I might add- I am no longer the world's worst stepper!) and then ran 3.5 miles on the treadmill before stretching and heading home. Tonight is a swim class night so I'll be going there at 7 but have to leave early to get to my volleyball tourney at 8. I was excited because I had been told that we had the week off from vball so for once my night would not be double booked, but that's not the case. I do enjoy playing a lot, but the whole thing of having to always leave something early and sprint to the next is really becoming too much to deal with. If we win tonight I'm really going to struggle next week as we play at 6, I have swim at 7 and then play again at 8:30. Oh well, for the love of the game right? I just love too many games! I do think I will take the swim class again for the next session just to utilize the instruction. Hopefully I just won't have 10 other things on that night!

My final big news... I have been offered a job at TREK Bicycles Corporate so it finally looks like I will be entering the work force. I don't even remember what money is- but I sure am spending it fast in anticipation of those checks! I should probably stop that! I'd like to hang on to as many hours as I can manage at Harbor though - so I can possibly have the money to purchase a TT bike with my discount. If nothing else, the discount should help out in my training for the IM. It's not crucial that I get the bike since I just bought a sweet Bianchi last summer (which I love) but it might be worth it to utilize the discount not knowing how long I will keep the job. Anyway, that's the news of the day.

What did everyone ask for Christmas? I can always use ideas, although it may be getting late now. Have a good one!