Calgary and post Calgary

This is a really bad write up. I feel like I am all over the place. Lost my focus last week. Or never got it back after going to Calgary. I apologize. Next week will be better.

Mont- Tremblant- Got plane tickets and a place to stay. Or actually my mom did. She is a very good travel agent and sponsor. :) Gave me airmiles for my ticket. Leaving here Thursday and come home Wednesday. Hopefully spend a few days in Montreal or somewhere else fun. Then bust my ass for the Bobcat for a couple of weeks. The anxiety that race brings on is unreal. We got sent a contract and a bill from MSU yesterday saying it would cost 885$ to use the pool. Awesome. Thanks for telling us that sooner. Even a mild suggestion that we would have to pay for the pool would have been nice. Let the negotiations begin. I think we can get the price to closer to 500$. They had us using the pool until 6pm which doesn't make sense.

Sort of sad I didn't get around to writing a race report for Calgary. Someday, I might want to look back on all these blogs. So I am going to do a very brief summary.

Best race (in my mind) ever!
Fastest swim for a half IM (7th in AG out of water, usually I am like 25th)
Fastest bike for a half IM
Fastest half marathon ever
Fastest time for a half IM
AG 35-39 ist
World Championship in Mont- Tremblant qualified!


Question: Would it be out of the question to do the Madison Triathlon on Sunday. I would do it as a total training race. No expectations. http://www.themadisonmarathon.com/register.html#mt. Actually, don't want to do this. Would rather be home this weekend.

Schedule- Boss leaves tomorrow however he gave me a lot of work to do while he is gone. This week on Wed. and Friday I have mouse takedowns. They aren't stressful or a lot of work. Can work around them. Two days next week I will have really long days. This is for a paper rebuttal so need to get on same page as Alayna for those. Hopefully she is in today when I get in.
That was a lot of description for not very much information, huh?

Okay, now this week. This week did not go as you or I planned or expected. I was so tired all week. Each evening I tried to get enough sleep, but with work demands and let's face it social demands, I am still not recovered by Saturday.

I missed three workouts. The OWS on Wed. Was really tired and decided getting my shit together was more important. Then the ride and the swim on Friday. My grandma, aunt, and cousin were in town. It involved a long lunch and dinner at my sisters. I could make excuses why, but basically I haven't seen my grandma in a long time and really wanted to spend some time with her. (sidenote: got a paper accepted on Friday!! I am first author. Boss brought in a bottle of champagne). Did ride my bike around all day. Probably not for 1:30 though

My body is feeling recovered by Saturday, but my sleep and tired feeling is not. Erik even told my on Friday night to take it easy because I have been coughing at night. He never tells me to take it easy.

Anyway, now it is Saturday. I got up early to flag for the 5 and 10k and went on a ride on the TT bike with Lawrence. My legs feel pretty good. I am spending the rest of the day getting caught up with crap I don't have time to do this week such as Bobcat stuff, clean house, unpack from last weekend. PT!! I am going to go do a nice short trail run this evening.

Sunday- Work part of the day to infect mice for an experiment.
Swim was good. Felt really good. Got good sleep and am feeling a lot more energetic
Ride- Rode mt bike to Triple Tree and back. Nice little trail section. Can't believe it only takes two hours to do that.

Monday- Had a lot of work and a Bobcat meeting in the evening so ran in the am. My legs hurt. Felt really crappy. My right achilles and lower calf was pretty painful. Ended up cutting the run short and limping home. Took some advil and wore compression socks all day in addition to doing a lot of stretching. Hopefully legs feel better for Tuesday run.
Swim was good and hard. I swam most of those between 1:25 and 1:30. Thought I could go really hard on the last 3 with the longer rest, but those were slower.