Triathlon training: Week 6, Day 1

Alright, so I slacked a bit last week. I got 4 workouts in (Sunday was the 90 min. practice triathlon, boot camp Monday, then double workouts on Tuesday) and then after that I just stopped. My body was so sore by Wednesday from boot camp and my 2-a-day Tuesday that I had to take a rest day, I was absolutely exhausted. Intended to get back into things Thursday, but then a stressful situation came along that took my focus away from everything. By the time it was Friday...well, the weekend was here! So you can imagine how my workouts went (non-existent).

For the most part I've enjoyed the triathlon schedule, but lately it's been making working out feel like such a chore. I know I have to really focus these last few weeks. Honestly, I feel so ready for this race though and I just want it to be here already!

Had a great workout today. I swam 30 minutes - 36 laps! Then I jogged outside for another 40 minutes. That damn cramp on my left side was coming back again and really slowing me down.

This weekend I went out celebrating a couple birthdays, and I must say it felt great to feel "skinny" - to not worry about what candid pictures are being taken of me when I'm not looking and all that. Friday night Nels and I went out to downtown Naperville to celebrate Jacklyn's birthday:











Here's a picture of me last year at Jacklyn's birthday, you can definitely see a difference.



Saturday night, Nels and I went downtown to Wrigleyville for Kelli's birthday at John Barleycorn! I was so excited to go and Nels and I even took a nap during the day so that we wouldn't be lame and go home early. Unfortunately, we did anyway. I've been having some sinus/cold thing the last few days, and walking 20 minutes from our free parking spot to the bar in the humidity did not help this. My head was pounding, I couldn't breathe, and I was feeling exhausted. There was some sort of film on my contact lenses and every light I looked at had a huge aura around it. We stopped by Ian's pizza first so that Nels could try some of their interesting pizza I was telling him about! He got chicken taco and I got tortellini pizza:





I was hoping to feel better after the pizza, but unfortunately, it didn't help. We only stayed at John Barleycorn about 90 minutes, and then I was feeling so lousy and exhausted that I had to head home. We did get a few cute pics in though:







I'll be having a fun time with these girls next Saturday too, because it's Brittney's wedding! Can't wait.