Things I shouldn't say...but

I'm a big mouth. Ok, I amend that... I say things without thinking them through sometimes. I can easily turn a budding friendship into something that is a bit awkward. I can't help it. Trust me i've tried and tried to censor myself but to no avail. There are people who love me anyway--people who know that I truly mean no harm but sometimes lack tact. There are so many things I censor and thus don't post here on trikarentri but i've decided to let loose.

• I hate the people who just moved out next door to me. They were meth addicts (and I suspect from the weird nighttime traffic to their house) dealers as well. They were jerks who ruined my ability to sit outside and enjoy a beer or a glass of wine. I'm GLAD they moved to Wyoming. Yes I said "hate" and I stand by use of that word. Oh, and they were horders too.
  
• I have HORRIBLE mood swings due to hormones. They are getting worse. All chemical interventions (i.e. BCP) have failed. Husband is upset with me about 4 days a month because i'm a real bitch. Today is one of those days.
  
• Stupid Garmin is not working properly these days. I have a love/hate relationship with my garmin.
  
• I'm pretty sure I'm an evil step-mom.
  
• My newest juicing concoction at home is cucumber, carrot, celery, parsley and garlic. The parsley is supposed to help with the garlic. I'm not sure it really does, but I enjoy the taste and I feel a lot better if I have a couple of glasses a day.
  
• Ordered a cord of firewood to be delivered thursday--guy never showed. after 3 hours of calling with no answer on his end, a gruff voice picked up the phone and said there would be no more deliveries for the forseeable future because they are short-staffed. They could have called us and told us this before we waited around like fools for hours. They said they were going to call and inform people over the coming weekend. Kind of lame.
  
• Rode my mountain bike this week and I LOVED IT!!! I learned how to roll downhill over rocks without crashing. Only downside is that my "kibbles and bits" get a little sore the next day. Yes I said "kibbles and bits" -- what do you call it?
  
• RugRat #2 scored big with a 4.25 GPA for the semester. Thats on her permanent transcript!!! I am so proud of her!!! All while running cross country and enjoying an active social life.
  
• I discovered "Soyrizo" tastes really really good with fried potatoes.
  
• I'm getting an Indira Gandhi streak of grey in my hair. Or maybe its Stacy London. I'm not sure but i'm not dying it. I think it is kind of cool.
  
  
• I enjoy reading TMZ sometimes.
  
• I once put Nair in someones hair conditioner. Yes I did--she deserved it.
  
• I am fascinated by the LDS church. No I am not a member, but I am just in awe of how a ragtag bunch of handcart pushers could create a theocracy in the american west in the 19th century. Fascinating. Oh, and the polygamist history is cool too.
  
• My great grandfather was a polygamist in India. I guess that was fairly common. My maternal grandmother is the first child from his second wife--so, I guess I owe my existence to polygamy.
  
• I can't wait to run 18 miles tomorrow at 7 a.m. Really. (I had to throw in something sports related)
  
• I will be doing 2 half ironman races next year. Possibly a third.
  
• Considering doing an Ironman in 2013. St. George, UT.
  
• One of the funniest, truest things i've read in a long time is this article titled, Triathlon is a stupid sport

Three Things Thursday

1. Running Group was AWESOME!! I hate speed/track work, but with a group it was really fun and easier. We warmed up with a 2 mile run; did some drills (i.e. butt kicks, high knees, etc); did 1 mile of strides; then 2 mile run cool down. Someone told me that with this group, they improved their marathon time from 4:50 to 4:20. Holy SH!T!

2.I have been looking into the P90X system, but there have been so many bad reviews on Amazon.com that i'm a little scared to plunk down $100+ if the darn things don't work. Anyone have good experiences purchasing from Beachbody or Amazon?

3.Running Group schedule is a lot more intense than my Matt Fitzgerald schedule. Not sure if I should bring pick a different Tri Schedule with more running or if I should only do the run workouts that correspond to my tri schedule. Hmmm... decisions decisions.

Run like a hamster

I have always had trouble with running on a treadmill. For some reason I feel like a hamster on a wheel--going round and round. Yesterday, since my half marathon schedule called for tempo training, I decided to break out my new Runervals DVD titled, "Tempo Training".. Perfect, right? 45 minutes of tempo training was exactly what the schedule called for and that was the length of the DVD workout.

I started off with a base pace of 3.5 mph as Coach Troy suggested (using a recent 5k time).. All was good. But then, Coach Troy started on the actual workout.. Increasing the run by 3mph and increasing incline 2%. My treadmill has incline, but no way to measure it, so I just guessed.

It was hard. Really Hard.
It didn't help that RugRat#2 and hubby kept coming into the room and asking me questions which required long answers. Like, "What are we having for dinner?" Or "When are we going to eat?" or my favorite, "What happens to an isotope when a beta particle is removed?" Really? REALLY??? I'm kind of busy right now. Trying to breathe.

So after 20 minutes of the 45 minute DVD I quit. I was getting too many distractions, and my water bottle kept threatening to jump out of the holder on the top of the machine. With a vision of what would happen to me as I slipped off the back of a water-soaked treadmill, belly down (a la Brady Bunch Movie)--I quit.


Dejectedly, I started figuring out dinner for my aparently helpless and ravenous family only to find out that they had just ordered Chinese take out.
Great.

In any case running 3 tomorrow per schedule then heading to San Francisco to visit family members and do a long run there.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to all!
Going for a PM run today and then mid morning brick on New Years' Day!

What are you doing to celebrate?

Early Run

Just a quick note. Today's early run was cold, wet, foggy and asthma-inducing.

That being said, I did the typical 3 miles in 31 minutes.
Going to do another 3 tomorrow.

I listened to:
Beyonce, Crazy in Love
Depeche Mode, No Good
Depeche Mode, No Good*
Something I can't remember cause I was wheezing.
Janet Jackson, Rhythm Nation
Kanye West, Stronger
Katy Perry, I kissed a girl
Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, Good Vibrations

*This song played twice in a row. Weird.