Chilly BRRRR!

While I love cold weather running (I roast after about 5 minutes!), I did find myself fantasizing about running in a tank and running shorts...as opposed to insulated running tights, tank, jacket, mitts, toque....and not to mention how nice will it to be to breathe warm air and not have that dry cough after sudden intake of cold air into the lungs?!?  Here's to the warm weather that is to come.  In the meantime, onward we press with the training towards the Oliver Half Iron....

UBC Tri finished!

Today Chris and I completed the Olymic and Sprint Tri, respectively.  I've got  a six year old excited to chat right now so will finish this post perhaps when they are in bed....which might be after I'm in bed!

Overall results:

149/335   5/20   F3539   2005 T Niki CUMMING               161   19:47  148   48:57  158   23:16 1:31:58.7 5   

Age Group results:

5/19   F3539   2005 T Niki CUMMING                 5   19:47    4   48:57    4   23:16 1:31:58.7 

Very excited with my results, and very tired.  I waited all evening for them to be posted and now I must rest!

Make that 10pm

My bedtime is getting earlier and earlier of late...to the point I'm looking at the clock at 8:30pm feeling like it's midnight.  I cannot wait til I can wake early to daylight and start the day with a run!  Who am I???

Swim Bike Run!

That is the mantra these days, in addition to eat sleep read, in addition to a typical day in the life of a mother.  Over the past few months I have learned that I am a much happier Mama when I have gotten the training over with prior to picking up the kids...the days where I would hop on the spinner AFTER putting them to bed are long gone!  Most days, training is complete by noon which feels great! No more guilt-ridden evenings where I have a hard time falling asleep because I can't shake the guilt (cuz I skipped something I wasn't supposed to skip....) 

Days are like this:

Wake

Eat 

Get them off to school

Swim/Bike/Run - 2 per day

Fuel, shower and nap if necessary!

Pick them up from school 

Homework & dinner

Kids to bed, Mama to the couch!  2 hours of stretching in front of the blessed television.

Sometimes a bit of blog reading, tri reading, etc etc.

zzzzz like a log, can't stay awake past 11pm these days.  Good news is I wake around 7am feeling ready for the day, and most importantly, EXCITED!