5/9/12 thru 5/14/12

Thoughts and organization.
First, Congrats on Ben Hoffman's win and that other girl you coach Cherisa Werrick (sp?). Looks like she had a good race. I found her blog and she seems pretty cool.

I am getting excited to race. I need something to convince myself that I am fit.

Swimming: New summer schedule at MSU is 11-1, 4-6:30, and 10-12 on Saturday. Closed Sunday.
                 The swim center is closed on Saturday and Sunday.
                 Still not sure about Masters. I just sent an email. But it looks like big swims in the pool might
                 have to be on the weekday.
                 Masters is having a 5k swim on June 10th. Sounds awful, but if you think it would be good, I will
                 update my shuffle.
                 May 18, 19 and 20th Swim Center closed for a swim meet.

Knee seems to be healing pretty well. I think I'm going to have a pretty big scar. Probably should have gotten a couple of stitches.

Wednesday
Skipped the run since the doctor scared me into it. But I did do the group ride with the Mules. Ray showed me some new town loops and connectors which include some climbing. He always rides fast, so I wouldn't say the ride was super easy. Started out a little early before I met them to get in some extra time. I think total ride time was a little over 2 hours.

Thursday
:45 minute run. Felt very, very good. I just needed to get out and run. Didn't even care where I went. I don't know if I have ever felt that way before. Just free. The trees are all blooming and it smells absolutely wonderful outside. Stood under one of the white blossoming trees for a little while and just enjoyed how pretty it was.

Friday
Love it. Basically a day off, with 2 total hours of excercising. Ran at lunch for 30 minutes. Felt good. Rodes after work on the mt bike with Erik. We just tooled around on the town trails. Not anything hard.

Saturday
Ride with Art, Lawrence, and Erik. Headed up Hyalite since the road opens tomorrow. Then over to Gateway and over to Gallatin Canyon. There were herds and herds of bison on Turner's property. I was pretty cool and made me wonder if that is what the prarie used to look like. The ride up Hyalite was good, rode pretty hard, but after that we didn't push it hardly at all. Oh, except Gooch Hill. I wanted a little effort so rode up pretty hard. Think I need to be better about being more focused on these rides. Total ride time was ~4 hours and we were out for ~5.
Met up with some friends who just moved back to Bozeman. I am excited for them to be here.


Sunday
Woke up and looked at knee and went back to bed. Was really tired and just not motivated to get to swimming. Submitted the job application for the Director of Parks and Recreation today too. I think I was kind of stressed out about it. Feel very relieved to have that part over. It was a lot of work to get that all together.
Good ride. Kept the pace up and going. Felt strong and fast.
Run- Couldn't pass up a trail run. Had everything ready when I got back in from the bike. Jumped in the car and was running within 30 minutes of the ride. Hope that is okay, it was just to nice out to be on hot pavement. Run was good. Decided I wanted to make it to the 4th bridge. There was some snow and navigating around trees. Total run time was a little longer than prescribed. 2:15 instead. There is this little uphill part of the trail the last mile or so on the way back. Was motivated enough to push it on that part a bit. I actually crave the hurt a little bit. Was happy with the run.

Monday
Tired. How did that happen? Going to shock the body back into swimming!!!