A New Day, A New Week... and a Vacation!

Well today is Monday & I typically hate Monday's, but I'm only working 2 days this week so I'm feeling a bit more tolerant today :-) Thursday morning I'm leaving for PC Beach for the Gulf Coast half ironman. Lana is competing in her first half IM & I'm mainly going to cheer her on. I'm also part of a relay team, doing the 56 mile bike portion of the race. I feel sorry for my teammates!!! I am not EVEN trained! I have been on my road bike a total of 2 times this year, not including the trainer rides. But hey.... the name of our team is "Here for the Party!" so...... I'm not too worried about it! Thursday is going to consist of vegging out on the beach with a very tropical -tini, -rita, or something along those lines. The weather is forecasted to be beautiful... highs in the low 80's and lows in the upper 60's for the evenings. So, Saturday there was supposed to be a 50 mile group ride meeting at 7:30am. I desperately needed at least 40 so my body doesn't go into complete shock Saturday morning. However, it stormed Friday night and was still drizzling rain Sat morning. So, I had two options & riding in the rain was not one of them. 1) Push the ride off until Sunday morning 2) Plug Black Betty into the trainer & spin for 2.5 hours.

I chose #2. Ugh.... that was my longest trainer ride by far. The first hour I was entertained by CMT's top 20 countdown. That's a drag when you're riding your trainer, but it was that........ or stupid cartoons. I tried to work in about a 50 minute routine and do it twice. I cannot say that I even rode all that hard because I wanted to make sure I just spent 2.5 hours in the saddle. I definitely worked up a sweat!!! My sports bra expelled around 8oz of sweat when I rang it out afterwards and I basically had to mop my floor under the trainer.

Saturday night? Wedding bells were ringing in Wartrace! My good friend Brian tied the knot with his beautiful bride Angel. This wedding was totally goregous being outside on a farm & the weather was blissful!!! Afterwards, Bethany & I went to the reception. There was a margarita machine & we couldn't wait to check it out! We stuffed our faces full of Bell Buckle cafe catering & then mainly focused on the margi's. The dance floor was hopping!!! But I think the party really didn't get started until Bethany claimed her fame to the special song that she owned :-) You go girl! She dropped it like it was HOT! :-) LOL


Sunday morning? Church. Yep, that's 3 in a row for me. Me & Jesus are talkin more lately... that's a good thing. I think I overheard him tell me the other day he's got a lotta work to do on me!!! :-)

This week I am going to try to take it semi-easy again so that my legs are rested for the relay at Gulf Coast. Today I am going to do an easy 5 mile run during lunch & Wednesday I plan to try and do 7 miles. That will be all unless I take a nice easy stroll Thursday evening at the beach when the sun is setting.