AND I RAN....

Well today I must have been channeling Forrest Gump. I went to stone mountain on the first most beautiful day of the year, and jogged 5 miles!!! I have been doing around 3, but today I kept going, and the best part of it, is that I can see how swimming is helping my whole body. I was never really out of breath while jogging. I stepped it up a notch on the hills and sprinted to get the blood flowing harder, and it felt great. Now though, I am tired. I think I will watch a movie and veg for a while.

AWESOME DAY TODAY

So this morning I went to the pool and swam lightly for about an hour, just to stretch out from yesterdays bike ride. Afterwards I stopped by Kroger to get some food in my stomach, and to my joy they were giving free cholesterol checks at the pharmacy. Now, I have never gotten my cholesterol checked, so I was a bit nervous(and I hate needles), but after my 10 minute test, I was happy to find out that I have like no triglycerides, or really any cholesterol in me!!! I am super healthy...yayyyy!!!! So then I had fried chicken for lunch, no joke, but just three little wings with watermelon, and olives. Afterwards, I went and met an aquaintance from Tri your best-at Tri your best to look at a Trek road bike he had offered to sell me. I looked the bike over and bought it for a great price. I am very happy because the bike is actually my size, and even though it is steel, it is light!!! I brought it home, and cleaned and regreased everything, as it had been sitting in his garage for a while. It shined up nice, and tomm. I will get it adjusted, get new tires, and a new chain, as well as new bar tape, and hopefully have a great ride!!!!!

YES!!!

So today it warmed up to the 60's and I went to Stone Mountain Park and rode 12 miles, it felt so good. I read in Bicycling magazine on some tips to go faster, so I just practiced those, and then wound up trying to race cars :) It was such a nice day. I had on my short sleeved jersey with my windbreaker on, and felt great. I cannot wait until this weekend, Sat. is supposed to be in the seventies!!!!

swim, swim, swim

so i swam monday for an hour with my training hand paddles, had a killer swim clinic at dynamo for 2 hours on tuesday, then today i ran 3 miles and had swim class again!!!! tomm. it should be warmer, so i hope to get on the old schwinn.

3 days Grace

no...not the band...just 3 days of rest, thanks to a killer bike ride.

Wednesday swimmy class

Well tonight we had swim training with TNT, the strokes are now coming together, and they are difficult to learn and master. But I have signed up for some swim clinics, and I still have a very long way to go.

Tuesday biking madness

Well on Tuesday I met up with a friend I had met at Tri Your Best to go ride at Stone Mountain. Ben rides single speed, while I am on my oversized schwinn worldsport. Well I decided to head off to the hard course of the bike ride, which is alllllll up hill. I thought I was going to have a heart attack. But I made it through, and after I caught back up with Ben, we did another loop. So needless to say...I worked out enough for the day. The most awesome part was that Ben gave me a Bianchi frame in my size, that I am going to try to use as my tri bike. THANKS BEN!!!