Tri-Dogmom

A couple weeks ago I received a surprise present in the mail. A fellow blogger/reader/runner wanted to send me one of her beautiful necklaces she designed. The picture below doesn't do this cute little necklace justice. The little charm tags are shiny, flat and lightweight. The necklace is something you could actually wear for training, racing or every day. I train with my dogs on almost all of my runs, and if you've known me for a while, than you've seen the picture below. This sign of Baxter was put out on the bike course of my first Ironman for inspiration. My dogs keep me on target, and well if nothing else help the negatives splits.. Now, I have a little token of inspiration that I can bring with me any time I want :-) Thank you Sarah at TAG YOUR IT! DESIGNS Please take a look at her website and consider her when looking for that perfect little gift! As a special surprise, Sarah is offering a gift to someone else. Click on the giveaway page and enter "tri-do...

Officially into week 2 of my training program. After having a half ass-ed summer of racing and training, followed by a marathon gone wrong, followed by 4 weeks of Mexico/Seattle lazy party bliss, I was ready to go. I spent 3 weeks in January just getting used to the idea of 3 runs, 3 swims, 3 bikes and 2 hours of strength training per week. Mind you, all of those workouts were at a very easy effort, except for the strength training. Actually, I'm pretty sure the strength training is what is kicking my butt. Like I said, "My everything hurts." Daniel the torture training is really stepping it up a notch. I can see the smoke coming out his ears as he plays around coming up with new exercises for me to do, testing them on himself first to see which muscles they target best. I think he's on a mission to get me in tip top shape. I trust him, he's been training me for years. He knows my weaknesses and he knows what I need. It also helps that he did Ironman Canad...

This year, it was just Shane & I in Mexico over the holidays. Christmas Eve morning, my birthday, we woke up did my birthday workouts (3.2mile run, 320crunches & 32pushups), bloody marys for breakfast & sat on the deck in the sun. It was fabulous to say the least. Thankfully for the internet, I got to enjoy all of my wonderful birthday emails and facebook wishes. The best of all came when Shane handed me a card. It's not the first time Shane gives me a card with a "you get this, or you get that," so I wasn't surprised in the least! The card was an IOU for a BRAND NEW ROAD BIKE, of my choice. He printed out a picture of the Ridley Noah, because I had only been obsessing over it for like a year since I first laid eyes on it. But, he said the choice was mine, I could get whatever I wanted. After a lot of online research, I did determine the Ridley wasn't for me (reviews that it wasn't for the 4hr bike ride time rides), and after a trip to the bike sho...

Feb 1st .....(I did try to post this yesterday, but was having some technical difficulties..) January has come and gone. As I mentioned in my last post we had a lot of things going on. Ironman registration, race planning, new bike, new job. Well it's all coming together, and started with a last hurrah in Rocky Point. Our friend Jeff joined us (thanks Nat for letting us borrow him) and we had a blast. We had lots of yummy seafood, and cervesa. Here's Shane with his "combination PLATTER" at Reginas! Beach walk and a nice run. Met a lot of our Las Conchas neighbors and socialized. And ended the weekend with a GREAT Roger Clyne show at JJs Cantina, complete with a beautiful full moon! It was a quick and fun weekend. And then we woke up Monday morning ready for our fresh new start. A new training schedule in tow starting with a nice 5miler run, then a pretty tough masters swim workout. Oh - and a VERY quiet house with Shane back at work! He's interested to find out...