Journey to IMAZ 2017

Wow! Feeling super sluggish this week. not sure what my problem is. We had 18 miles on Sunday to run, and the weather was fantastic. I was sore by the end, but felt over all pretty good. Did go home and take a nice nap though! Nothing wrong with that. Also had a nice carb full meal when we took mom out to eat for her bday at Jack and Mary's! Yummy Chicken and Noodles! Good thing I was hydrating the whole Husker game the day before! i think that helped for sure. This week has been mostly shortly runs and bike rides. This weekend just has a 3 hour ride and 10 mile run. We are camping in Des Moines for Mike Kellar's bday so i'm going to see if I can do my 10 miler the night before so I only have 7 miles on Sunday :) Last night was a bit of a tough ride for me, just into the wind part of the time and it felt like my legs were super tired. It was great when we had the tail wind though! We did 2 hours on the bike so about 31 miles and then ran 2. We kept a pretty good pace of

Yesterday marked our 1st OWS that is the full distance of ironman!! I didn't wear my full wet suit becuz it was just too hot, but i did wear my lava pants. I felt so good and strong! I was super stoked! i was able to do 4000 meters and didn't have to stop at all. I took a honey stinger gel before I started and it helped a lot. It was super choppy coming back but I was able to swim it without a problem. I did have to pee half way and had to take a tiny slow down to be able to pee. LOL. Estella and I then ran our 6 miles. It was pretty brutal but luckily the temp went down and we did it together. afterwards we went to the store and got our supplies for Today's big ride!! Today started out awesome. The weather was cool, the wind was low. We did the route that mimics our IMAZ route. The loop goes to Fremont and by the time we got to Fremont, the wind had picked up so the stretch on Old HWY 275 was a full on head wind. It was tough, but i was able to keep it at between 14 and

Our last race before the big one!!! I feel very pleased over all with how it went. The swim was of course my favorite. I was playing a game of "finding nemo" I called the yellow buoys "blow fish" if they were round and sharks if they were triangle...I swam along trying to get past those and "find nemo" the orange buoy at the turn! i also tangled a bit with one guy who was by my side for a long time and finally said...finish him!! Sweep the leg Johnny! and got past him. I came out of the water in 34 minutes and was greeted by a guy on the shore that said i was the 4th woman out of the water!! YES! my transistion was kinda slow...over 2 mins but I got on my bike and got ready to face the hilliest course known to man! these hills are just brutal...not rollers where you can get momentum coming down and then fly up the other side...ooooh no!! these are down adn then flat and then straight up!!! i started to name them on my way..."mother dick" "

This week hasn't been too bad. Got to do an OWS on monday at candlewood on Labor Day.Also a 4 mile run with Estella before it :)  We did a mile and half. I swam masters on Wednesday and it was a lot of butterfly! not my best and not my fave but i survived! at least i got to wear fins most of the time so I didn't drown! hah. In biking this week Estella and I rode our 1hour 47 min with intervals out to Valley/LaShara. It was super windy so pretty tough this time, but I feel a bit more comfy on my bike.We ran a mile after which wasn't bad at all.  Then yesterday we did a time trial for 10 miles on "white trash" road in valley. I felt pretty good going out, head wind coming back but I was still able to keep it over 18.5 most of the time and I actually wasn't the slowest! Yay! AND no one passed me :) yay! Today was a day off and tomorrow we head to Lawrence, KS for the Ad Astra/Legend 70.3. This is our last race before the big one in November! Its a great time

This week has been a down week. I have been having some issues with my knee for some reason and i'm not sure its my bike or if its the run thats doing it to me...but it needs to stop! Our longest this week was a 3 hour ride (56 miles) and a 10 mile run today. It bugged me quite a bit today. One thing I really need to be better at is stretching! I used to be so good at it, but i've been a slacker!! I think as the miles ramp up I am going to have to start really making it a routine! I also have slacked on the chiro the last couple of weeks and this week with mom in the hospital. Poor mama! she's out and home now and hopefully doing better!! Tomorrow is labor day, so we're going to try and do our open water swim tomorrow instead of wednesday so i can actually be there!