yikes...

I only have NINE more days until my race. I'm sooooo nervous! I'm driving Brad crazy. I can't remember if I've mentioned it here or not but I'm doing a sprint-triathlon on the 26th. I'm not in it to win, only to finish it having done the best I can do. Anyone who knows me knows that I am not an athlete. I'm a slightly-heavier-than-pre-pregnancy mother who has set a goal to be more healthy and trying to accomplish it. That being said, I've been working really hard on this. Six weeks ago, I couldn't run 1/4 mile straight and now I'm up to three miles.

At the risk of embarrassing myself...

The race involves a 300meter swim, a 10K bike ride and a 2.4K run. I'm not afeered of the swimming. I can do that in 8 minutes, which may be slow (I don't know) but I just do what I can. I can tell a definite improvement in my biking here recently. Every time I go somewhere, I try to pedal it as fast as I can, sometimes with Ezra on the back. I've "bricked" a few times, which is when you bike a fair distance and then immediately run. This feeling is like when I was a kid and tried to jump on the ground after having jumped for a long time on the trampoline. You just can't do it. So my post-bike mile run takes me THIRTEEN minutes. It takes me half a mile to feel normal again. haha. Hopefully, I'll feel a bit more competitive on race day and will push myself. Oh, and I've improved my normal mile, though. I'm now under 10 minutes (fresh) which is down from around 12 minutes in the beginning. I just look at how far I've come and know that I shouldn't worry about where I place; I should just be happy that I'm finishing!

My in-laws will be here for the race which means that anything I do will always be remembered. I just hope I'm not embarrassed! And if I am, they must remember to forget it. hahahaha!

If anyone has any advice to offer, I would greatly appreciate it either here or in an email. :)