Endomondo Playing handball Workout

Endomondo Playing handball Workout: "was out playing handball 1.75 miles in 39m:57s using Endomondo."

i have just downloaded this feature to my phone
a friend from high school has been using with his cycling for a while now and he thinks this one is pretty close to target with distance calibration...
so i wore my garmin and turned this on today...

it was a walk - no idea why it says handball!!
this is near my mom's new house...
will keep giving it a try

slow weekend...

yesterday was more of an ireland day than a tri day...  good thing i changed the name of the header on the blog....  i had purchased the tickets way back...  then it was all about creating an itinerary and making hotel reservations... that was spent online with google maps determining how long we could drive at a given time and where we would end up...  from there hotel research and hotel reservations...
now i am back to the details of the itinerary...  printing detailed maps and figuring out what specifically is available to be done at each stop...
today's weather is about the same so i could actually finish up the itinerary by this evening...

no run

feeling not that good - constant feeling of drainage and throat clearing...  fearing will lead to a headache...
gotta go to bed early tonight as tomorrow is an early day...

run again tonight

i was going to go running last night after straightening up the house
somehow that never happened...
so it IS going to HAVE to happen this evening...
shooting for the whole 3.1 miles... we shall see how it goes

Light a fire to painting

My mom is going through all sorts of paint chips since her arrival.  Trying to determine what colour scheme she'd like to use in the new house.
All the while, I still have a number of areas in my house that are not painted - sun room, stair well, guest bath, guest room...  Gosh and I have been in the house for years...
You would think it would light a fire under me...  But not so...
Speaking of paint and fires...  WOW - footage of HWP today on bernews...

run run run...

the 5k i signed up for months ago is in 2 weeks...  my focus is to keep running running running for the next 2 weeks to hopefully get my endurance for the run up to some sort of consistency for the 5k...
so today's jaunt to the gym entailed - 2 miles.. i was going for 3 but my phone kept wringing so i stopped...
so the track at the gym is 12 times around for a mile... i have finally graduated to 2 times around at a run - 1/6th of a mile...
so think evening was a 2x walk; 2x run for the 2st mile,
1x walk; 1x run for the second mile... couldnt find my foot pod to clock pace etc...
and tried pandora on the droid not too sure i like the service... it is slower

Now that that's behind me

i hate that it never rained but glad with everything else i got done over the course of the weekend...
now in 2 weeks i have a 5k that i signed up for
i was pretty pleased with my run yesterday and Saturday...
the focus will be running and stretching etc for the next 2 weeks...
did not make the AM run this morning - alarm did not go off... still working on figuring out the new phone :)

14.2miles on bike

and 1 mile on foot
so no tri today and no new cool tshirt or challenge of the travel and the crowd
but i enjoyed myself...

No rain

For those of you who officially heard I would be doing another triathlon today, that is not the case.  I was having too much speculation on the weather - rain and heat.  So mid day yesterday after seeing some photos of local rain in Wilmington, I opted to stay here instead. Now at 630 AM it is warm out there but no rain.  So I am going to throw the bike on the car and go for a ride. 

Saturday AM

So here I sit. I am outside the hair salon. The girl who cuts my hair was kind enough to reschedule my appt to 9am so that we could cover some gray - its really not a case of being blonder these days- before the Ireland trip.
I am so on the fence abt tomorrow that it is safe to say I am at NO. It rained all day yesterday - local flooding even made the national news. Today it has been foggy, sunny, cloudy, dark + cloudy, dark clouds in the distance, sun has gone away.
And it really comes down to - do I want to drive 3.5 hours today to Wilmington - potentially in rain, to pay $150+ to sleep in a hotel, to get up at 530am to potentially have it be raining there?
I won't compete in the rain - I have had that agreement with myself for about 2 years now.
Adding to the $ mix - well the rearranging of the hair won't be cheap. The new suitcase I had to order for IRL wasn't cheap. My mom wants to get new cell phones before our trip.
So like I said I am pretty close to being at NO.
And I kind of hate that. Struggle with whether or not I am letting myself down or not.
Silly. Must be some childhood something or other.

off to bed...

thanks to all for the well wishes and the motivation...  now just waiting to see what the weather...  4 days of potential thunderstorms across ALL the Carolinas... brings... and if the drive et al stay on the agenda...
will keep you posted!

now there is rain

not sure what to make of it...  it has been pouring down rain since about noon...
so back on the wait and see mode...

Emily went poof....

So 2 days worth of obsessing over the NHC site for nothing.  WHICH IS WHY!!!  I hardly ever pay attention to the weather. 
So I swam, sauna, ran tonight.  All the while playing some positive internal self talk for Sunday's race.  I had seriously talked myself out of the race with all the thought on the weather.  I am still somewhat hesitant.  The heat potential for the weekend and the thunderstorm threat has me a bit ill at ease. 
I am in that keep moving forward mode tonight and hope to keep at that pace through race day - and the race.
My swim time is in the middle of the pack.
I have pulled up all directions - to hotel, to packet pick up at local bike shop, to race site...
I need to find out about late check out - I need to be able to leave the little guy at the hotel in this heat...
And then I need to work out what to pack - sleep clothes, swim shorts, jog bra, swimtop, socks, sneakers, swim cap, goggles, ear drops, bike, helmet, baseball cap, water bottle, step ladder, coconut water, sun screen...
CAN'T THINK OF ANYTHING ELSE - can you?
oh - change of clothes in case i decide to maybe CHANGE before i drive all the way home...
will keep everyone posted

race day

Emily seems to be stalled just south of Haiti....  not sure what that impact will be on ETA for Wilmington.  I have realised I dont really need to decide until noon on Saturday.  And the planner in me is trying to be spontaneous like that.  It is hard.
No need to help with the move yesterday - most things were unpacked by the time I got home.
Tonight gonna swim - let's hope the thunder storms stay at a comfortable distance until after pool time..
ALSO going to try a yoga class...  interesting...
As for carbs - the race usually only takes about 90 minutes - and my stomache gets so torn up with the nerves that morning that my food intake that morning is not that great...  not going to worry about this too much as I get my head around the weather and travel times etc...

how can that be...

i hate that the dress i just put on for work this morning is snug
you know you can feel the dress on you
not tight where you cant breathe but snug
and i am hating that at the moment...
sure i have fallen head first off the 17-day diet thing... i had some bday celebrating and baby shower distractions... then i got thinking about carbs for the race...  so this week hasnt been all that stellar on the first 17 days bit...
i had expected as much when i first started counting the days etc...
now to start the next 17 days after Sunday - which will bring me right before I leave for Ireland...  if I can lose anoter 5 pounds by then I would be happy...
we shall see how that goes...

Weather update

So I successfully got up and did another walk through the neighborhood again this morning.  Interestingly I have found a muscle in the front of my leg that I assume is from the hills in the neighborhood and the walking versus the run/jog.  I would like to keep this in the rotation in preparation for lots of walking in Ireland.
I was planning on going to the gym but my morning got too confusing - do I get up straight away throw on clothes and head to the gym?  what to do about the morning coffee?  what about breakfast?  what work clothes will travel OK and not get to out of shape in the locker (these lockers are smaller than the Y variety)?  and with that the concept did not happen...
when I count objectives and time frames etc on my fingers - it could work - i just need to get the little coofee, food and clothing logistics in place...
I will not be working out this evening - unless you consider unloading my mom's car load of stuff a work out...  and it very well could be just that...
And then there is this ever daunting storm way out there south of Puerto Rico...  According to the local weather man - the storms are slated to impact the rip currents and such.  They do not expect there to be much in the way of wind and rain.  I have until 6pm on Saturday to cancel my hotel reservation so I guess I will continue to play by ear...  At the moment Emily looks to have slowed down some which could mean eventually picking up strength over the warmer waters...  So we shall see...
Of course the introduction of this concept of not racing into my psyche does LOTS of damage...  I start to think of all the other things I could be doing with my time etc... 

EMILY...

something else to contemplate....
I hadnt been paying attention this morning - Sam Champion mentioned Emily heading towards Florida and that was about all I paid attention to... the name reminds me of the storm in Bermuda - was that 1987?  but other than that it did not register...
OH but look at NHC
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at5+shtml/204113.shtml?tswindloop?#contents
I know by the time others look at this the forecast can and will change..
but in the hours of 2am Sunday morning to 2pm Sunday afternoon - Emily or whatever is left of her is slated to be right over Wilmington...
And in my mind - I do not want to drive 3 1/2 hours to the coast to ride my bike in the middle of a tropical storm...  That bike is still new and my own personal safety is not that crazy...  I will decide a little later in the week as to what I am doing...  I need to double check the hotel's cancellation policy as well...
Who WOULDA thought!?

vacuum

that is what pre-empted this evening's workout...  needing to vacuum before my mom's arrival...  i have a small version of a pug accumulating on my floors in the form of dog hair...  so that won out over the rest of the game plan...
tonight is National Night Out - totally forgot about it - now that I have already eaten I have learned there is someone selling BBQ in town - BUMMEr
AND it is National Ice Cream Sandwich day - and I would love to run out and grab an ice cream sandwich.... actually if I had known I would have made my own..  oH wELL...
and now that the vacuuming is done and it is only 730 I contemplate on what else to do with the evening....

swim bike run...

i am trying to do the walk in the morning this week - get the muscles moving etc...
and last night i did manage to get all the other aspects in
i thankfully did a 12x4 swim at the gym - had to share the lane for a bit which i am good with given the hectic pool aspect of race day...
i did 20 minutes on the stationary bike - gosh a road bike sure is a whole lot easier to ride than that thing...
and then did a quarter mile on the track - sure that wasnt much of a walk but it was really just an effort to feel how it all works one after the other
gonna try to do the same this evening
tomorrow - hold on to your hat with this one - i am thinking of heading to the gym in the AM to swim
i have company arriving tomorrow so wont be able to go after work
i made dinner when i got home - thats an odd one - cooking a good meal at that hour - i dont think that is a good use of calories so late in the evening but better than a bowl of cereal
good thing tonight will be better

nothing

those are my results in training this weekend
i knew saturday was going to be a wash - i did not anticipate the same for Sunday... 
i was making arrangements for our upcoming visit around the house and by the time i was done the air quality had the best of me... i know i could have gone to the gym but my get up and go had got up and went...
the biggest effort of my day - walked to R&C to drop off some food and the grocery store to get some more food.... 
already got a walk in this morning - now to pack gym bag for after work