DH is home from his business trip!!! YAY!! WHile he was gone we did projects one was my closest. There has been a shirt in my closet for over about 9 years. This shirt is has had a tear in the sleeve a non repairable tear and yet I've kept in in my closet for this whole time we are talking before I had kids. They day I got this shirt my BFF & I went and got our hair done & went shopping while our husbands were hanging out together. So we called them and told them we are going out and when they came to meet us at the Mall my husband said "Our wife's got Hot!" This was the last time I remember my husband telling me I was hot and I believed it. Now I know there were other times he has told me I was hot but for some reason I distincly remember it and that I felt like Hell yeah I'm hot! Honestly that is the only reason I've kept that shirt for that long. I was bummed about getting rid of it but I realized I needed to let go because I am not the same person who wore that shirt. I'd look at that shirt and think about how great I looked back then. This shirt is not fixable and I have come a very long way since then. That shirt symbolized someone I kept aspiring to be again but I can't become her again and that is a good thing. I have grown in so many ways. I am a mother now of 2 little boys and a wife of over 10 years. I have health aspirations now along w/ goals to complete 5K's & maybe one day the Disneyland 1/2 Marathon. The person that bought that shirt would never have these goals.
Tomorrow is the Color Run and I am more than a little scared. I don't feel prepared and I am worried I am not going to be able to complete it. But I keep reminding myself that I completed the Warrior Dash w/ NO training and this is just a 5K no obstacles. But the thing that was nice about the obstacles was it gave me resting time. This is 100% running but the website says it is for anyone. It may take me an hour to walk it but I know I can walk 3 miles w/o stopping.
I told you I signed up for a triathlon w/ my BFF? In the beginning she said that she'd stick w/ me but if I couldn't complete the swim in 1/2 hr she'd have to leave me in her dust because if you can't complete it in 1/2 hour they don't let you continue. I totally got that & understood. Well now it has changed and she is saying she isn't waiting for me at all & she'll see me at the finish line. I get her reasoning. She said she is doing this for her and she wants to beat her time when she did this 13 years ago before she had kids. I get that I would want that too. But now I am toying w/ the idea of not doing it. I need that buddy system if I don't have someone there to distract and keep me focused I can get lost in my head and talk myself into quitting. At this point there is NO WAY I can swim a 1/3 mile. I am not worried bout the 12 mile bike ride or even the 5K at the end because I have already started the training for that. She thinks that I am stronger and more powerful than I give myself credit for and that I can keep up w/ her if I just start training.
I found a couch to Sprint Tri 12 week training but the assume you are in better shape than I am. Cause you should be right? I mean anyone in their right mind should be in better shape than I am when they think about signing up for a Triathlon. I just counted the weeks and we have 14 until the Triathlon. I feel like that is pretty realistic time frame to get ready for it because I am not worried about the bike ride at all. The 5K I am 2 weeks down on my 9 week C25K so no problem there. But the swimming…….. I have NEVER been a good swimmer like I've never tried to and when I took the one set of lessons I did as a kid I didn't really excel at it either. So not sure how I am going to survive this. I've watched some videos on youtube that were pretty enlightening. It says the most important thing is to be tall in the water and that if your anyway near the 5ft to 5.5 range that causes allot of difficulty. So great being 4.11 I am already at a disadvantage. *sigh*
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