Tri-Dogmom

Yesterday was my first ever trip to a med tent, all inclusive with an IV.  Not exactly how things were supposed to go, but hey, we ask a lot of our bodies, and in return we should be taking care of them, right? I was on the fence about racing Soma.  I raced all summer long, had a lot of success and had a blast!  I wondered if I should be doing a long training weekend instead.  But, I talked it over with Michelle (probably secretly hoping she said no to racing) and she thought it would be a good idea. I raced Soma last year before IMAZ and had great days at both. I waited until Tuesday night before they shut down online registration.  I had some concerns about the water (the last race was almost cancelled), and to be honest I was worried about being a bit run down.  The past 6 weeks have been a whirlwind between our last month of fun and training and visits in CDA to packing up and moving back home and trying to get settled and back to normal life in 24hrs.  That included hoping off

Here we are almost 2 weeks passed our arrival back from CDA, and still trying to catch up!  I actually got to do some of that today. Analyze training plans, do some back and forth chatting with my own coach and strategize some final key workouts for one of my athletes as she heads into the last stages of Ironman AZ training. For the past 4 weeks life has just been crazy busy.  I am one that thrives on staying busy and actually somehow am much more productive with the more I have to do!  But, over these past few weeks it's almost been too much for me.  I really had to focus on utilizing every single hour of the day, and look ahead at my work meetings and training plan to try to figure out how to fit it all in.  I don't know how it happened, but work got so crazy busy at the worst time!  With Ironman build in full swing, trying to do all of our last minute bucket lists in CDA then packing up and traveling back home there were not many spare hours (or minutes) in any given day.