Bead’s Blog

I changed jobs a few weeks back. I had to end my gym membership to the Y near my old job. I finally got my paychecks coming in at the new job so I got my membership at the Y closer to home. I was going to try and get there over the weekend and bring the girls(I got the family membership) but it didn’t work out. They wanted to go outside and play at the park rather than swim at the pool.

The iPod was charged up, and my gym back was packed so I had my first day at the new Y. I had been there before so I was familiar with the layout. I got onto the elliptical for about 45 minutes with a 5 minute cool down. I skipped the weight machines(for now) and went to the pool. It felt good to swim again. I did an easy 1/2 hour.

It had been about a month since I closed out my old gym membership and had been in the gym. Feels good to get back in the groove.

Well, it is finally Friday. I wore a Hawaiian shirt for the first time a the new job. My boss liked it, so now it will be a institution here.
I am almost over Bronchitis. I was hoping to get my long run in tomorrow but the weather looks craptacular. Snow/freezing rain? Where is the spring weather?
I’ll be up at 6am to decide. Cross your fingers.

Well here I am!! Okay, no more applause. Well this year my main goal will be the ChesapeakeMan Iron Distance tri in Maryland September 30th. I will do a bunch of sprint tri’s, a few olympic and maybe a 1/2 IM if I can squeeze it in.
My other goals are to complete 3 marathons. I have 1 done so far as part of the Goofy Challenge down in Disney. My next is the NJ Shore Marathon which is at the end of April. My fall marathon will be the NYC if I can get in and if not the Baltimore Marathon.
I will fill in the gaps with some 5k’s, 10k’s, some bike events when possible.
I want to spend more time on the bike than last year, I felt that was my weakest event. Hopefully I can fine tune the swim and the run as well.
I have met several trifuelers in the past year and I hope to meet many more. I will post whatever event I am doing and maybe get a trifuel contingent going.
Now the next trick is to get the training log going too.