thanks - quick update -- more detailed update to come...

Hey -- thanks to those of you who asked.

Long story short:

Job is great. Organization is great. Students are great. Co-workers are great. (To Lisa, in inaugural RTB fashion...."It's greaaaaat.")

Job is taking up A LOT of my time right now. New job transition, so it was anticipated. It's all good, though.

Ummm, except one thing: I did anticipate balancing my training and exercise much better than I have been. Ready for this? I started mid-February, so, oh, I have been there about 7 weeks now. I hope you're seated. I am actually starting my 8th week. In 8 weeks, I have managed to gain ~8-10 lbs. Yeah, that is right. I have exercised about 3 times within this period. Once with my coach, one spinning class last Monday, and another spinning class tonite.

I tried last week and only made it to spinning once. I hit my ceiling this weekend. My tipping point, if you will. No more. I went to spinning tonight and will need to get moving this week.

This must change.

So, thanks to those of you who wrote and asked how I'm doing. I'm doing great. Outside of this one thing. This one thing that affects so many other things. So, I'm starting to balance a bit better. That doesn't mean less hours (the transition still calls for a good number of hours) what it does mean is:

1. Exercising now -- a lot more


2. Transitioning the exercising to training once again


3. Getting my foot to PT (I have appointments that begin next week)


4. Start running as soon as my PT gives me the go ahead


5. Get into a resistance program at the gym


6. Get into the pool (and see if swim buddy will be at the Pond in June and if he can go earlier to accomodate my work schedule)
   

I could go on, but this is enough for now...... #s 1-3 are good enough for now. baby steps.


St. Croix Tri is 1st week of May. I plan to do it, but just do it, now. Like, get through it. And enjoy the sun. And go snorkeling. And go snorkeling. Oh yeah, I just said that. And more snorkeling. :-)

And is it so bad to say that I want to start running now for Reach The Beach?!!!? I don't want push my running. As I loose the 10 lbs, (priority folks....) I can push the biking and even the swimming (which is soo bad right now), but the plan is to ease back into the running so I can get over the plantar fasciitis, because there is nothing worse than not being able to throw on my running shoes and take a whirl around the Charles. Or up & down the hills of my neighborhood.

Soon enough. I sure hope this new PT is good. (Yeah! I have a new PT! I need someone with evening hours due to the new job. Can you believe it? If you were following my blog 2 yrs ago, I'm sure you, too, cannot believe I am not going to my 'PT God'. But alas, I need evening hours and he has left his group practice to open his own in a few months....maybe he will have evening hours.....we shall see. New PT guy has no idea of the standards he is being held to.... I am told, however, he specializes in feet and I'm all over that.)

I'm off. I plan to check and see what's up with you over the next couple weeks. Thanks for checking in with me. I appreciate it. I am alive.

Needless to say, my triathlon goals have altered a bit this season. I'll post these "revised goals" once I have two visit at the PT (after next Wednesday). I do have the Cohasset Tri in June, in my schedule, though. (Meaning, I have actually registered and paid for this race.) They are racking my team together in transition. Fun stuff.

Peace and be well everyone! Will be back end of next week.

Happy training. :)