a new year

wow. miss an important blog post or two and suddenly catching up seems such a chore that i don’t even know how to begin. not that anything that has happened over the last few weeks has been life altering but i did turn 40 and end up flat on my ass for a week with an upper respiratory infection that killed my training routine. so where to start …

training and the flu. or cold. or upper respiratory infection. or whatever i still kind of have. i almost never get sick but this pesky little bug bit me hard. i know exactly where i got it too. the b$#@! who waxed my eyebrows a few days before my birthday was sick but i didn’t realize it until she was doing my pedicure. doing my toes sick is one thing. but doing my eyebrows sick! leaning over my face. so wrong! i was pissed! thankfully it took a couple days to hit so i wasn’t really sick for my birthday but after that i was done. completely. six days of not working out at all and three days out of work which is unheard of for me. as of last sunday i’m back up and running but i’m still not 100 percent. a lingering cough. chest congestion that makes it hard to sleep. and now the start to a stuffy nose. almost like it’s coming back to bite me again. i can not be sick another day! i’m over it.

i’m beginning to feel like i turned 40 and fell apart! ugh 40. not sure i’m ok with that yet. i know i know … they say 40 is the new 30. but who says that? i think it’s just the people who recently turned 40! seriously though i guess it’s not that bad. i don’t feel 40. i’ve been told i don’t look 40. so as the hunter wrote in my birthday card we’re just going to stick with 30!

my birthday weekend was wonderful. saturday an introspective ten mile run through the woods. followed by a perfect day of sun and fun on the boat with the hunter. i don’t think i’ve mentioned the boat yet. it was his birthday present to himself a few weeks back. nothing extravagant. just a little 17-foot sunbird. but we love her!

the hunter’s new toy

and after a day on the water we went home and took a brief nap (yup we’re old. we nap.) then headed off to ocean prime ~ a fabulous restaurant where my friend kat was throwing me a birthday bash. a night of martinis ~ a different flavor each round ~ with about twenty wonderful friends culminated with this …

sing me a song mr. piano man

the next day ~ my actual birthday ~ was father’s day so after a quiet morning together the hunter went off to get his girls and i went off to ride. forty miles. one mile for each year of my amazing life.

so i’m back again. forty and fabulous and ready to make this year fantastic!

 

may goals recap and june milestones

may was a busy month. lots going on at work and a pre-training ramp up on my workouts. i had some basic goals for the month and some added hopeful ones. here’s how i fared …

1. start writing weekly workout updates again.
   i kept up pretty well with this the first few weeks of the month then fell behind. but i caught up so i claim success!
2. solidify sab’s summer camp schedule.
   done! and even all paid for!
3. spend 20 minutes at least three days a week doing the PT exercises for my hip.
   fail. i started off doing ok. i’d shut the office door and get it done. but this was the wrong month to try and achieve it. i was just too busy.
4. plan the hunter’s birthday.
   done! plans were made. a slight wrench was thrown in them ~ for the better 🙂 ~ we adjusted and had a great birthday celebration. details to come.
5. create and order a 2011 photo book.
   fail. got a decent amount of pictures picked but still have more to go through. then there’s editing and placement.
6. do new lease for my tenants.
   signed, sealed and delivered. one less stress.
7. update resume
   updated and one new position applied for. doubt anything will come of it honestly, but it was worth the shot.

so now on to june. the end of school. the start of official training. the dunedin tri. my birthday! i turn <gulp> 40 on the seventeenth. i haven’t totally freaked out yet but i’m close. so though i have a couple goals for the month, i mostly want to just breath and enjoy my milestone … and all the tequila it’s going to take to get me through it 😉

1. race my first tri on june 10 and just finish strong! no need to set a goal. certainly not worth setting the goal of going sub 1:30 (though i should conceivably be able to no doubt). so no time goal. really! 😉 ha! right!

2. celebrate my 40th with delicious food, strong drinks and great friends! my friend kat is throwing me a birthday bash at an amazing restaurant. i can’t wait!

3. get in an early morning run at least once a week. i’m going to have to add in at least one double workout day for augusta. no doubt. but mornings are tough for me. i have no problem leaving sab home for an hour or so alone in the afternoon. but she’s an insanely sound sleeper and i just don’t feel comfortable that she would react right or even wake up should there be an emergency. but there are mornings she’s at her dad’s that i could get something in or i could run on the tread. but i HATE running on it in my workout room at home. there’s something about it that makes me feel so claustrophobic. i can do yoga or strength training in there easily but not run. so i moved it to the living room. ran on it last night in fact. and though i still hate the it, i can at least tolerate it now for training needs.

4. get films of the knee. i need to know what i’m dealing with. it’s not going to stop me but i need to know if the yankee can help at all.

that’s it. no lofty goals. this is my month and i plan to make it great!