Tri Dreaming

So I was thinking about my blog yesterday and realized that I forgot a major event in the afternoon of skiing on Saturday. So in case I've never mentioned this, I had never been on skis (downhill or xcountry) before we began our little journey otherwise known as skate skiing. This may play a small part in why I am having a harder time picking this up, but the real purpose of this knowledge is to proclaim my fear for hills (going up sucks, but down is much scarier.) Keeping this in mind, I will continue on with my story... so we're skiing, I finally make it up this gigantic hill with my poor little cashed arm to hear Mark say "that should have been the last hill to climb" so I'm all pumped that all the tough stuff is behind me and continue on skating gracefully along the path. I turn the corner and there it is... the mountain of xcountry ski hills. I completely freaked out and apparently tried to turn to avoid flying down it at that moment meanwhile choosing a much better route straight off the trail and into a huge thorn bush. Lemmie tell ya, that felt great! I was tangled and laughing so hard that I didn't move for a good 5 minutes. On top of Mark standing there laughing his head off (it all makes sense why he was still wearing his helmet when he passed me now doesn't it...) the only other skier we say all day passed us at that time and also got his share of laughs in. I'm glad I can at least keep everyone entertained. I did make it down the mountain by the way... not so sure how I'd do at downhill...

Ok, back to the present and now that I've wasted all my time embarrassing myself, I'll keep this short. After taking 2 lazy days off, I pulled myself out of bed early to hit the pool before work. I can't say the swim felt great, but I managed to get in about 1700 yds in a half hour before dragging myself into the locker room. That was an adventure as the power went out leaving me stranded in an unfamiliar club in pitch blackness. Went to work... blah blah blah, left early to get back to the club to sub for cycling class. I think I killed the majority of the cyclers, including myself, but I think that's what I needed. No more slacking.

Tomorrow I plan to go for a run (hopefully during work) and then hit bodypump since I've missed it for the past 2 weeks. Tomorrow is early yoga as well. Skipped that last week too... wow, don't I sound like the dedicated athlete! Lovely.

Aight- good night all! Rest well.