Tri-ing the iPad

So in a pure Oprah moment we all got iPads at our company AGM on Thursday. What a crazy event. Now we all now I am not an early adopter of technology. And I am not a fan of the limiting Apple technology. Probably would never have purchased one of these for myself t any point in time. But for the most part it makes for a nice alternative to surfing the Internet while watching tv. It is fun to watch those endless take that videos that are my guilty pleasure. And it works ok at the moment as I try to sit here and type any entry. Not sure it is something I will embrace for the long haul. But we shall see. As for the training. As noted, I took a little hiatus after that GingerSnap race. I wasn't planning on it. My gym bag was packed that following Monday. I was standing in the work room at the office and an overwhelmingly unpleasant felling came over me. stomached cramps my be an understatement for the description. So that night ended up with no gym. Running on a treadmill with that feeling was not at all appealing. To tell you the truth I am not sure what kept me away from the gym the rest of that week. I should probably had made notes. Last week I had that crazy early meeting - alarm goes off at 4am and on the road before 5. That had me down for the count Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. I think by Thursday going to the gym seemed futile. Oh no, that wasn't it. Our AGM was Thursday. And I got to be dd for said coworker. Not too sure why I never worked in running or something on Friday. Instead I organized a closet in dire need of attention and reworked some of my home office. Then it was out to dinner with mom for her birthday. So we end up at race day on Saturday. Now I had read that you really shouldn't let more than 3 days lapse with the run training. And this had been two weeks. Not sure what I was thinking in those terms. Bfearful I suppose for lack of any better descriptor. My friends and Inmet up with my mom and her friends. We got settled in and off we went. KA and I held pace for maybe the first 5 minutes but that's when I start to lose stamina. So she went ahead. RBM had long since pulled away from the crowd. And somewhere behind me were my mom and her friends. And on I went. I hindsight I was surprised to notice that I kept up with my minute on minute off challenge. Andital I had averaged a good pace given my lAck of training. So this week I am capitalizing on that enthusiasm for some more gym visits. Well except tomorrow - it is moms real birthday so martinis and friends are in order. I will head back to the gym of for the rest of the year. This week focusing on the 4.6 average. Next week will add the sprints back in.