Tri-Dogmom

I'm sure some of these will be repeated on momo's blog! I'll leave her feet picture to her! Here we go.... From left to right: Me, Maria (behind), Sara, Heather, Stacey, Mrs. Cashman, Melisa, Kirstin - All hail the wine bar!!! Maria & Heather Krista & Sara - I really need to work on these side angle shots - NOT flattering on the face! Dave & Stacey - aren't the newleyweds cute? Pre- dinner 'cheers' Melisa, Shane & Krista Big J & Momo Shane & Krista and here we have.... momo dancing on the counter... showing up the girl in the half top!

Saturday was a FANTASTIC day! S & I started out with a pretty darned good bike ride. We headed up north to do some hills. Like, remember that awful, horrible route that I broke down and stopped in the middle a few months back because of the wind? Yah , I kicked it's A@@ on Saturday! We were pretty slow on the way up. You know... just getting into shape & having a few extra lbs REALLY DOES make a difference.. As we started the descent S looked at me and said something like... 'Ya know. I think we've got the master plan. Get Fat & out of shape.. then torture ourselves on theses hills - then suddenly it's all going to come together & we'll be thinner & faster and SO much better." Or something like that.... And, on the way home we were a little shy of our time goal, so we climbed ANOTHER extra hill. just because. Then, onto the REALLY fun part :-) We had a girls afternoon at our wine bar planned to celebrate some birthdays. My dear...

Ok.. this is kinda a big deal. I have never ever ever changed my hair color. Just highlights, that's all I've ever done... Lately, I've just been feeling so boring. Plain Jane (not that there is anything wrong with that...). We've had some huge life altering changes here in the LaPan household, so maybe I justt wanted to make a little exterior change too? OR, maybe cause I'm 30... I'm all brave now? HA, hardly..... I just started to feel like my blonde hair wasn't me anymore. It was faded and the roots were ugly, and well... I felt sorta washed out. Oh, not to mention the pony tails. When was the last time someone saw me without a pony tail? Even when I wasn't working out? Well... it's probably a good clue when I went searching for a BEFORE picture and found NUTIN. Ever single picture in the last year (with the exception of Momo's ugly fat face picture of me at my surprise party where my face was still all jacked up and fat from the steroids) I w...

So, today is the day.. My "new look" will hopefully happen! I'm been searching thru all the trashing magazines for the new Ashlee look, with no luck. I think that picture below came out right after lasts weeks issues, so the new ones are out today, and I will be hitting the stores before my appt tonight in search of that picture! Yes, I know far too much about the gossip magazine world, but hey... to each their own, right? The last week has been about more building with my mileage. I'm pretty happy with my progress thus far, considering my ZERO running for 4 weeks in December to let my IT band heal, and just barely building up on the bike again. I was able to run 4 times last week, M, W, F & Sunday... with two :45 mins . I finally got my NEW SHOES , and although they are quite a bit different the relief in my knees has been heaven. My old shoes were so worn, especially on my right foot, that the inside toe was basically worn to the sole - no thick rubbery...

So a few days ago I posted about my hair turning darker. I've been contemplating a "new look." I've always had blonde hair. And, always had blondER highlights. As the years have gone on the roots keep on getting darker. And, now that I'm home for work, and IM training, and well.. just plain old lazy, I don't like the upkeep. It's super $$$$, time consuming, and if not done every 8-10 weeks (which it NEVER is) it looks horid . So.. I've got a wild hair up my you know what. I'm thinking RED. Not flashy red like my boots or my purse... But a dark/brown red. I have made an appt with my hair gal for next Thursday . We will check out my roots and see if it is possible... and possible without high maintenance up keep. So, I've been searching for some pics to bring to her. This morning I found these new celebrity pics posted of Ashley Simpson's new do. It is EXACTLY what I'm looking for (color). So - I will wait and see if my OK magazine t...

I don't know how the past year flew by so quickly. I started posting on this blog, pretty much a year ago. My first post was on 1/31 to be exact. It was just days before my 20 week road to ironman would begin. Here we are again. I seem to be in a similar place. More confident in some ways, and less confident in others. I know that I can do the training. That I can swim over 6000 yards. that I can bike 112 miles on tired, fatigue legs - then get off the bike and do a brick run. I KNOW that I can finish the IRONMAN . When I signed up for Ironman CDA , just days after finishing it last year - I thought I could do so much better. My swim is SO much better than I performed. I left the bike with so much energy left. I could have gone harder. Not harder in that I would torture myself... but a little faster and still have fun. The run on the other hand, I have no huge expectations. My run is not my strongest link. I have had some fast days, but I'm not consistent, and most of all, I ...

Well, I had a great plan for Sunday. Unfortunately, traffic jams and so many people made it not so perfect. At first the plan was for Shane to drop me off around mile 2 so I could run 3miles with momo . Then, he would park and meet us to pick her up at like mile 5 and run into the finish with her. Well, I sorta overdid it on the training this week. That is apparently how I roll. I just had the fire in me after the Mexico vacation and wanted to get back into the swing of things. I'm not good at just easing into it... and I was feeling it! So, I decided to take a much needed rest day on Sunday. Looking at the half marathon course map, and trying to figure out the best way to get Shane to meet Melisa, we found it. Right off the 51 highway I could get down the 24 th Street & McDowell. The map showed it about 5.5miles, and a water/ accelerade station. So, the plan was for Shane to be there at the end of all of the chaos of the station waiting for her. Momo is pretty easy...

Really? Did we REALLY need another excuse for a margarita. Apparently so. Last night, my mom stopped by and gave us some belated Christmas gifts. The big one.... Shoot, aren't I supposed to be training for an Ironman? Actually, I HAVE BEEN. Check out my sidebar. I just updated it, and I have SOO been training. No distance to brag about, but the effort is there! Now when are we going back to Mexico??? Cheers!

This seems to be every one's favorite question for me. Like I just turned 80 or something... Ok , so there are TWO things that I feel, or that have changed. 1. My hair is TOO dark. I was a toe head blonde kid. I started highlighting for fun when i was a teenager. I've never stopped. Now, it just keeps getting darker and darker and darker. Not good when you have VERY light highlights. Looks like a skunk on my head. I HATE.IT. I'm working on a solution to this one... 2. I can NOT. EAT. EGGS. PERIOD.... Ugh. I have struggled for a while to find a solution for my non-meat eating self. I don't eat meat because I don't like it. It grosses me out & makes me gag. I eat chicken, but only GOOD chicken and GOOD restaurants and the expensive stuff like$5 per breast at the store. I love fish, but picky about that too. I tried every type of recovery drink out there to get some protein. After throwing up about every single one, I quit. Tried various protein ...

Wow, what a couple of weeks they were! The weather was GORGEOUS. The drinks were, well.... I'll let the pictures speak for that one. The company couldn't have been better. The exercise was, um...somewhat there. Does a 10mile round trip beach walk to a BAR count?? ......I can now successfully run 30mins with NO IT pain!!!! The REST was ABUNDANT!!!! Shane & I drove down to Mexico on Thurday afternoon, we got the truck unloaded and had a drink.... or two... or, well WHO is counting? We tried out our new Kayak....several times. On my birthday, Shane called our Dolphin friends over and we enjoyed quite the show just 10feet from our boat! It was AMAZING!! Then, we headed out for birthday lunch, and drinks.... Christmas involved breakfast mimosas Napping and lots of presents for the kids.... Then Shane & I had a few MORE drinks.... This is our view from the upper deck On the 28th our friends Carrie (superfan), her brother Chris & his wife Karen came to play!! Chris got...