Tri Dreaming

This has to be a short one as I'm already an hour late for work. I woke up feeling pretty crappy this morning and thought that everyone would benefit if I slept for an extra hour rather than going to work and not accomplishing anything because I felt ill. Hopefully this extra hour of sleep will help... I'm not sure yet. Needless to say, I bailed on my early cycling class this morning so unless I summon up the motivation to go tonight... I will have used up both of my free days before the week even got going, as I didn't work out yesterday either. I don't think 20 yards on a pair of snow shoes would count as a workout. I'm definitely a fan of them though! Need to find myself and extra $125...

The weekend was fun. Went skiing on Saturday. A little of 6 miles I think. It was fun and the weather was awesome... not too cold for once. Xcountry skiing really is a pretty, calming sport... until you have to climb the hills that is. There were quite a few of those. Unfortunately, rather than making me stronger, I think they were killing me. Apparently, the way I push with my pole on my right arm is really really screwing up my shoulder. I really need to work on that if I'm ever going to make it past a couple of miles. By the end of the 6 I was skiing without poles or with only my left which is quite a bit slower and clumsy.

Sunday was the quadathlon. It was very cool, but I felt like a slacker for just sitting there and not doing anything... good thing that motivated me to work out later huh?! Anyway, one of the guys in my masters swim class showed up and parked in the next spot so that was kinda cool. It was fun seeing him... haven't seen him very often since the class ended. Also stayed and talked with the winning relay team for quite a while afterward. I think they said they were from Baraboo and all 4 of them looked extremely familiar, and they actually approached me with that thought, but we couldn't pin down where we'd met. Turns out one of them did the ironman last year, and at least 2 of them are signed up for this year so we exchanged email addresses and maybe have some training partners along the way. They were all very cool.

With that, I suppose I should get going to work. I'm still feeling iffy so maybe they'll let me leave early. Wishful thinking... happy training.