A Memorial Weekend Wish

for good weather:


Hats off to veterans and those serving in the military. Our family appreciates all you've done and sacrificed for our freedom.

And other updates

Aside from finishing the triathlon, here's what else has been happening:

Colin's in a big potty training regression phase. {insert sarcasm font} It's pretty awesome {end sarcasm font}. He has more wet pants than dry pants these days. He gets so busy he forgets to tell one of us. Or I ask him and he says no, and then 5 minutes later he pees his pants. It's so frustrating I want to scream and cry. But I don't. I just have to have scheduled potty breaks built in the day I guess.

We took one side of Colin's crib off. We did this for a few reasons.
1) I heard a story about a 2 year old who climbed out of his crib and started having seizures. He was admitted to the hospital and died a few days later.
2) I thought it would be easier for him to use the bathroom at night if one side was off, so he didn't feel like he was trapped and his only option was to wet the bed.
3) He wasn't sleeping well. I've learned that when he's being a stinker, it sometimes helps if you challenge him. Then the problem goes away.

Well, a week later after completely unsuccessful weekend naps, the side is back on. We did this for a few reasons.
1) He fell out of his bed at least once a night, which didn't seem like a big deal to him, but we'd have to go and put him back in bed.
2) He still had the same amount of accidents, if not more.
3) He's sleeping better now with the side on.
Thus, the experiment was a dud. Try again later.

One of my best high school guy friends, Troy, who lives 20 minutes away from us, had a baby on Saturday. Well, technically he didn't have a baby, his wife did. I got to see sweet little Lauren and I look forward to hopefully spending some time with them this summer. Troy is a teacher too so it shouldn't be too hard to find a time to meet up.

7 more student days until summer starts! On Thursday we're going to Como Zoo so it's not even a real school day!

Triathlon Rundown

Here's the rundown of the Root River Triathlon day-of-fun on Saturday:

I woke up at 4:40 before my 4:45 alarm. Steph, my friend/partner picked me up at 5:15 with 2 of her male co-workers. We drove an hour to the town we were racing in. We checked in, dropped off our bikes, dropped off our canoe, and waited and strategized until 8:10 when it was instructions time. Our canoe heat was #5 out of 16. We paddled away from the shore at 8:50. (We're the girls in blue below)

We canoed 6 miles and it took us about 1 hour and 14 minutes. We had a heavy aluminum canoe, and us 2 girls were racing against 2-man/mixed teams in Kevlar canoes. Not fair ;) We got out of our canoes and transitioned into biking.

We biked 8 miles--2 small hills and 1 humongous hill. I am so proud of myself for pedaling all the way up that monster. I learned a lesson about torque that night from Kevin. Apparently I wasn't using full advantage of my bike's gears. Good to know 12 hours too late. Biking took us 35 minutes. (We're both on the left)

Next up was a relatively short 3 mile run, at least compared to 6.5 and 8 miles. I ran my well with a time of 26:45 which means I ran 1 mile in 8:55.

Our total time was 2:29:57. We didn't know our transition times counted, or we would have been quicker about putting our shoes on and whatnot.

I finished 103rd for women and 33rd for my age group.

I'm so happy to have had an awesome partner and friend to do the triathlon with. There were a few times Steph had to wait for me (like on top of that monster hill), so I hope I didn't slow her down too much ;)

I was a little sore the rest of the day and on Sunday, but I'm doing fine now. I'm so happy that now I can be LAZY!!!!!!! And maybe run a little here and there when I want.

Would I do it again? Yes. But hopefully I'll be able to bike train a little more next time around. The weather was too cold/rainy this year to do that. And although Steph and I kept up with the other women/women canoe teams very well and we're proud of our accomplishment, the mixed teams sure were moving a lot faster on the river!

Thanks for trying

...to vote on my hair poll. Great timing to add a poll because Blogger was down for a day or so. Apparently they lost some posts (and some polls...). They got my post back up and running, but no poll, on Saturday morning. Thanks Blogger. I had to make my own decision. ::sigh:: I went with short and I'm lo-o-oving it.

Hair Do or Hair Don't?

I have a hair cut scheduled for Saturday. I always always always debate between getting my hair cut into a short bob again
Or growing it out
Or maintaining at medium length.

Which do you like best? Because honestly, I don't know. Keep in mind that I'm running a triathlon next Saturday and, well, medium length that can't go into a ponytail is not idea. I like the idea of ponytails. But I also like the idea of wash-and-go short. This not only applies to the triathlon, but summer as well. Right now it's just long enough for me to put it into a decent ponytail.

Vote in the poll at the right. Please and thank you. You're the best.

Triathlon training

T minus 17 days until Tri Day. Last night, I biked about 4 miles, took a half hour break to read bedtime stories and puff on my inhaler, then ran 2.75 miles. And I survived just fine. I'm still working up to biking 8 miles and running 3.2 consistently, but I'm getting there!

As my marathon-running co-worker says, "It's not like I run 26 miles every day to train for a marathon." So I figure if I bike 8 miles sometimes and run 3.2 miles sometimes and do a little of both other times, that'll be good.

My other co-worker and I checked the 2010 race results, and it's looking like the race will be about a 2 to a 2.5 hour ordeal in total.

Bring it on!