Hello!!!
Sorry it's been so long since I've written--I was working, taking a class and training. I have pretty much been gogogogogo for almost two months now, but things are finally (!) slowing down! :)
My training has been going pretty well. There was a snag for two weekends where I had to work out an over-training issue, but I did 21 miles last weekend and 24 this weekend, and felt pretty good during them, so I think I'm fine now. This weekend I'm doing a half marathon in Maine (so excited!!!) and then my first triathlon is on 7 September. And then a full marathon in Ohio around the 21st of September. My bikes rides (one 200 mile and one 50 mile) are coming up in October, a full marathon in November and then the Dopey in January!!
I'm VERY nervous about the open water swim for my tri still, and the fact that it's been too stormy/yucky to swim in the Gulf of Mexico lately is making it worse. I'm just going to have to do the best I can but I'm still pretty uncertain about that. I would really like to get a swim in before I head to Massachusetts and Maine, but I'll have to find a "Beth-sitter" for the swim. I won't go swimming alone (for obvious reasons) and most of the beaches here do not have life guards...so, I'm going to see if any of my friends are available to make certain I don't drown or eaten by a shark. At the very least I just need someone to chill on the beach and have a phone handy. :) I'm working on that.
The weather here has been SO rainy this year! We've been cooler than normal because of the rain, but I'm getting pretty waterlogged because of it. I'm willing to bet that this winter is going to be exceptionally mild, based off of the extremely mild summer. To me, that's good and bad--no freezing runs, but no break from the heat and humidity either. The upside would be that biking is much more pleasant in warmer weather and swimming is easier to find/do. The downside is IT WILL STILL BE FREAKING HOT AND HUMID. Ah, the problems of living in a semi-tropical paradise... ;)
I have surpassed my $1K goal for the 200 mile ride in October; I cannot thank everyone who donated enough!!! I'm humbled by how much I was able to raise and look forward to completing the ride.
