Monday - Friday
Wake up Monday, head to the airport way too early, land in some foreign country, pray customs would let me through with my kashi/luna/power bars, sit in meetings from 8-7 with a late dinner (hoping for a pre midnight finish so I could wake up and train), get on a plane Friday, and head to the house.
Saturday/Sunday
Fit in a week's worth of training in two days in the HORRIBLE Texas heat while trying to fit in my domestic and wifely duties for a husband who sees me 48 hours a week. Pack and make sure my passport has pages left in it, and do it all over again. I think I had 2 weeks between Memorial day and Labor day when I was in Houston. One was 4th of July week and the other was some random week in August. I am hoping that I will be able to stay in town the full month of September so I can get some training in and see my husband who I know has it way harder than I do when I am out of town. Soon this will change, but that is for another blog post. Oh and the kicker? We moved and instead of renting a new place we decided to buy. Literally within 3 days we went from looking at rental houses to putting an offer on a house, while I was in some place other than the US. My poor mom made it her full time job to get all of the paper work in order, and this was a lot for two people who have not lived in the US for 3 years and one of them is a Canadian. Thankfully she was on summer break. This means we are in Houston for the foreseeable future. It was really because of a culmination of events including Chris landing a sweet job he really likes, both of us realizing a mortgage is cheaper than our rent was and the interest rates being so low. Plus we love Houston. Aside from Austin or Hawaii there is no place we would rather be.
Needless to say I avoided any big races, which meant I couldn't do Calgary 70.3 like I was hoping. It also meant that this was the longest block between races I will ever have and it allowed me to really focus on my running and nutrition. Good thing, because when I am on the road, the only constant is a treadmill. I also took up yoga (or my form of yoga - really just doing downward dog 2 times a week) to help me get some of that flexibility back that I lost somewhere in the last 5 years. Also, that is another thing I could do in a hotel room. The next race on the schedule is Kerville half, then back to back races for Austin 70.3 and Oilman. Oilman is on our anniversary - lucky Chris. I may let him stay in the hotel and watch football instead of watch me out on the course.
Here are just a couple of photos from the summer in no particular order.
Nola in her happy place. It isn't Hawaii, but it is sand and an ocean.
My adorable niece and mom. Chris and I are scared to have kids because we don't think they will be nearly this cute. Seriously.
At my grandmother's 90th birthday. She is the youngest 90 year old I know. She was up dancing with everyone until way into the night at our wedding.
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