Wednesday, December 27, 2006

After Christmas Ramblings

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. We've been playing a lot of Mah Jong as a family, which is a tradition at our house for this time of year. But I would have to say that my most cherished Christmas memory from this year would have to be when my 13yr old daughter said grace before the Christmas meal. It was a beautiful, heartfelt blessing that almost brought a tear to my eye. Even though the teen years can be 'trying', I am really enjoying watching my kids develop into the distinct individuals that they are becoming.

Santa brought me a Garmin 205; I can already tell that I am going to have fun with this new gadget. If anyone can suggest some training analysis software that is better than what it comes with, please let me know.

I started feeling motivated to get moving again after being mostly lazy last week. I ran 4.8 miles on Christmas afternoon with my husband while the turkey was cooking. Yesterday I did some core and strength work in the morning and went on a 12.4 mile bike ride in the afternoon. This morning I was in the pool at 6am for 1750.

Plans through Friday: Repeating the 4.8 mile loop later this afternoon (and compare to Christmas day run... oooh...ahhh...data...*drool*). Spinervals and more core/strength work on Thursday. 2250 swim and 6mi run Friday.

Oh, and apparently I have created a substance potentially harder than diamonds which is now stuck to the bottom of our 5qt stock pot. Cool, huh?

4 comments:

  1. Check out Sporttracks for Garmin software...I like it alot and it's FREE!

    http://www.zonefivesoftware.com/SportTracks/

    Glad you had a Merry Christmas... :)

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  2. Congrats on the Garmin!

    Children are a bit like Tri Training... We live for the "moments" when they are absolute angles and tug at our heart strings. :D

    Have fun in the 10K. I did my 1st 10k run last year - sure, it was painful, but I thoroughly enjoyed it! Drink two cups of coffee an hour or so before you run - caffine has been shown to be a effective (and legal) performance enhancer!

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  3. Impressive holiday workouts!!!!
    Jenny
    Happy New Year! Don't you just love your kids? I swear I can't remember my life before they came along... so awesome you enjoyed a special moment on Christmas. ;-)

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  4. Cool x-mas toy, I think the garmins are pretty good. You can map routes on google earth.

    Mah Jong, I grew up with that, thou my parents played for money with their club of friends all night long.

    Happy holidays.

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