Work, Work, Work

It wasn't all work today, but it was too much of it.  The sad part of it is that I should have done more.  This release is going to kill us all!  I don't think it will ever be done.  I was very grateful for the extra hour of sleep this morning.

If you are in the Bay Area and want to start cycling, I highly recommend the clinics by Savvy Bike.  I took the 101 - Basic skills clinic Saturday and it was wonderful!  I still can't ride without hands, but I am a lot more comfortable on my bike.  I've even signed up for the hills clinic in February. 

I'm not sure if I mentioned in my last post, but I decided to sign up for a Cinderella Classic bike ride in Pleasanton.  It's 65 miles with some hills.  Hills scare the crap out of me!  I know if I train I can do the distance, but the hills.....  I was looking a bike groups and Velo Girls has a group that will be training for the ride starting in January so I went ahead and signed up.  The first ride is 15 miles and the second is 20 so I'd better get riding!

Swimming wise, I'm very glad that I can swim three nights this week.  It was really hard for me to only swim one night last week.  My mental health needs more than one night!  I found an open water swim on January 4th from Alcatraz, but I'm not sure if my surgeon will clear me for the swim.  I'm having my dog ears taken off on December 20th and I can't swim for 2 weeks.  The swim is 15 days, so that might be a bit too close.

Somewhere in here I'm going to start the couch to 5k.  I haven't figured that out yet.  I updated the app today so I'm ready to go.  I have 10k on Sunday that I'm totally not trained for.  I'm just going to join and enjoy the walk.  If I can run a little in there I will, but if not, that's ok too.

I'm still looking for a tri next year.  I just can't find anything until September/October.  I didn't really want to wait that long, but I guess I can if I have to.

Do you have any goals for next year?

Food wise, the weekend hasn't been great.  After the clinic yesterday, I stopped at the Lobster Shack and had a lobster roll - they are sooooo good!  And I had a tri tip sandwich at the Warriors game.  Trena did help - an It's It sounded really good, but I didn't REALLY want it so she talked me out of it.  Tonight, I ordered a pizza.  After finishing the slides, I just didn't want to be in the kitchen. 

Hopefully I can plan meals for the rest of the week tomorrow.

Hope you had a great weekend!

xxoo

Deb