10 more days

I have officially reached the before questioned taper. It is Thursday and I am on my second full rest day since Monday.... and I am still in my PJs thank you very much.

You would think I would have accomplished all sorts of things with all my spare time... And, well if you consider constant IM'ing with her... and her about what we are going to wear and what we are going to drink after we are crowed the winners of IM CDA, well than yah.. I've accomplished A.LOT.

I mean, I have in fact FINALLY narrowed down what I'm going to be wearing on the run to only 2 options. Trust me, this is a big accomplishment.

And I must share what my sweet, endearing husband said when I reiterated how important it was to have the PERFECT outfit...
"and you wonder why I always race better than you."

Yup... that is what he said. No joke. He might kick my ass, but people... I will be full on color coordinated and comfortable, that is for sure.

What else has been going on? Well, I feel pretty darn good that is for sure. I'm much more rested this year than last year. Last year I was sleepy and didn't want to do anything. This year.. I'm just feeling kinda normal.

Yesterday I did have a little scare. Well, actually it started on Monday when I woke up and my right shoulder and neck was all sore and my arm was going numb to my fingertips. Which started to scare the shit out me since this was the EXACT same time I started having neck problems last year, which led to a very uncomfortable swim and bike time at CDA last year... which then led to 6 months of no swimming and steroids and a very very fat face!!!

So anyway, I sorta had a freakout and went to my wonderful ART guy where he did some work on me and helped release some of the nerves that were being pinched. I'm still somewhat uncomfortable, but it's much much better..

Now if we could all just find a bubble to stay in for the next 2 weeks. Let me tell ya.. seeing this first hand about made me pee my pants in fear. have you every seen one of your bestest girls in the world's head literally bounce off the ground? Yah, kinda scary....

She's tough though... she's already back in the saddle.

For now, I'm just taking everything day by day. Doing my schedule and trying not to eat everything in my house. Which, trust me has been hard. Why is it that I'm more hungry now that I'm not exercising as much?

Tomorrow is our last big workout... 3:30 bike, 40min low HR run & 2000m swim..... And then we take our bikes to the Tri-Bike Transport drop off. Which, if you haven't used them is like the best service ever invented. No dealing with taking apart the bike, or putting it back together...
And the very very best thing. After the race you just hand them your bike. Which after that long day is like a little slice of heaven...

Well, now I'm off.. to possibly get out of my pjs.... I gotta get my bag packed to go with my bike, so then maybe all of this will seem more REAL. Jeez. I'll prolly start freaking out when I actually pull the bag out...

I can't wait to meet and hang out with all of you! It's going to be so much fun :-)

Oh yah.. and my race # is 1857. I can't figure out anything cool about that number though....