not enough time!

Busy week at work, busy (and not so great) week of training = no time to blog. I'm basically just trying to make it through to the weekend, where I will try to make it through my long ride and long run, and then hopefully (crosses fingers) have a rest week next week. MUCH NEEDED REST WEEK.

I am in pure zombie mode - wake up, train, eat, work, sleep, repeat.

So, to substitute for an actual post with actual thought behind it, here are some photos! Some triathlon, some are not. Sorry for being so lazy!

Cayuga Lake Sprint Tri - I'm smiling!

Cayuga Lake Sprint Tri

And since I went to my parents' house this weekend for the annual Harding Pool Party, this is an adorable photo of my brother and I on our Fisher-Price plastic tricycles. I'm guessing I am about 4 here and he is about 3. We man-handled those things!

And since it is almost Fall and I have been reminiscing about running cross country, here is the Elizabethtown College's women's XC team in 2002. I am in the middle row, third from the right. I only ran my Freshman year of college and then I transferred to a D2 school - Slippery Rock U. where I joined the Equestrian Team.

ECXC rocks!

One final one.. if you want to know why I talk soooo much.. I kissed the Blarney Stone!

Ireland, 2003

lazy blob-girl off-season

My off-season = blehhhhhhh. I have been so so SO lazy!

My motivation is still MIA.

I guess this is the purpose of taking an off-season - am I right? To rejuvenate and get excited for next season. I think you know that it's time for the off-season to be over when you start getting antsy to train. That feeling.. is not there yet for me.

Currently, I feel lazy, sluggish, and a lot like the blob. Even with the accompanying guilt, I do not feel like working out. I have relished sleeping for 10 hours a night and clocking quality time on my couch. I do not miss the extra load of laundry per week. My cat is now even more clingy with me since I am constantly at home with her. (Although I will admit that I like when my clingy cat crawls all over me because I feel loved!) :) My appetite is FINALLY decreasing. My urine is no longer fluorescent yellow. My friends know what I look like again. My daily wardrobe has improved (slightly) from running shorts and a sports bra to jeans and a hoodie (heh). I am catching up on the 2 newest seasons of Dexter! I might have even gotten over my disgust of Gatorade that resulted from 238475893475 bottles of Gatorade being consumed from January through September! I still don't want to look at a Gu Chomp though..

I need something to fondly look back on in May/June and then again in August when I am at peak weekly training hours for the 2 Ironmans that I stupidly decided to register for. (I hear that Ironman year 2 with coach Mary Eggers is at a whole new level.. I'm psyched!) I need to keep in mind that halfway through my season next year I will be DYING for a lazy month of off-season.

If I were to keep training right through the end of the year.. I would be screwed for next year. I've been burnt out since Placid and if this is what my body and my mind need in order to get me ready for a huge (well, huge for me at least) year next year, then I'll be ok for a little while as a lazy blob-girl.. I might even secretly enjoy it! And potentially may carve a Homer Simpson-esque ass groove into my couch while I'm at it.

Cheers!