I have a LOT going on...

I don't even know where to start this blog. First of all I turned 33.. gross. I'm not normally bothered by age but for some reason this year it did.

The big thing I did other than turn another year older having still put off the idea of having a child (while my eggs shrivel up), was to do a triathlon. This was my first one and it was a smidgen more than a sprint but not as far as an Olympic. It took place on Isle of Palms and was a .6 mile ocean swim, a 16 mile bike, and a 4 mile run. How did I do? I finished. I expected myself to take about 2 hours and ultimately I beat that time by 6 minutes which I was proud of. However, there is always ALWAYS that not-good-enough part of me. So when I saw the results and realized that I was 5th out of 5 in my age group I had a little bit of a 'failure' moment. I was happy to see that after all that I still ran a 31:57 4 miles which is the fastest recorded 4 miles I've done to date. I've been chasing the sub 32 minute 4 miles for a couple of years now. It's crazy that when I finally do it it was after swimming and biking for the past 1.5 hours.

Here is a picture of me coming into the finish. That's my friend Nancy giving me five. She is an awesome personal trainer to boot. I don't think I could have finished as well as I did without having gone through all of the bootcamp ass kickings that her and Cissy have put me through. SHOUT OUT!HOLLA






Shout out to Sarah too, she is my triathlon buddy. I roped her into signing up and she did great. She's got tri #2 in a few weeks. I didn't have the cash for tri #2 but I plan on doing another one soon. (Augusta half ironman is $225.00! Are you kidding me??) While I'm on the subject of signing up for things I perused the Disney sight yesterday to window shop the Goofy Challenge. (That would include a half marathon on Saturday and a full marathon on Sunday). It's $310.00.. wowsers!


I once again tried to get my infamous Disney pose at this race but I guess the photographer didn't get it. He got the "flex" instead.


That race belt is not flattering to my straight-as-a-board figure, what would Stacy and Clinton say?.


My time was 1:54:05. I wasn't last (outside of my age group). I wasn't even last in the awful swim. Did I already mention that the ocean was not friendly that day? The water was extremely choppy and I couldn't see the buoys or the pier that I had planned on sighting for. Honestly, I panicked a little (or a lot) and almost called one of the kayakers to take me in. I composed myself though and did a lot of backstroking,so no, it was not the best but it got me through the panic.

Besides that my diet has been going on for two weeks. I'm down about 3 lbs so far. My focus is on watching my calories, eating whole grains, and vegetables. My weight today was 116.4 and the body fat (according to the scale) was 18%. The seems like a lot in my psycho brain. I plan to keep up the hard coreness for another month and then I figure by that time it will have just become nature and I won't miss pizza, and chocolate, ice cream, cake, and all those things I LOVE.

Anyhoo... stay tuned for my next blog which will include details about my fitness photo shoot that I did on Monday and some pictures to go along with it. If you're wondering, I have no idea what I will do with the pictures.