One Crazy Month

I need to get back to blogging. I want to get back to blogging. Whether I will actually succeed in getting back to blogging is another story? (You could easily substituted the words “losing weight” for blogging in the last three sentences…)

So what have I not been doing in the last month:

• I have not been doing the sixty day challenge
• I have not been losing weight (in fact, I’m up a few)
• I have not been blogging (duh)

Thankfully, what I have been doing has been a lot more exciting:

• I have worked out, almost religiously 4-5 mornings during the week and either one day or both a weekend. I even got to ride my bike outside lat week!
• M and I wen to see a house for sale at on open on house on 2/22. At that point in time, our plan was to sell our house in the fall of 2011.  We were merely checking the place out. Turned out we loved the house (or thought we did). Needless to say 2011 was not happening; we listed our house one week later.
• We sold our house after it had been on the market for 3 days. The first offer (and only offer) was for $2k less than our list price – we couldn’t not take it. At that point in we hadn’t even looked at the original house we liked or any other house for that matter. The sale was finalized on 3/5.
• Sometime before 3/3 I registered for an indoor triathlon on 3/14.
• On 3/3, I won a race entry for a 5k on …. 3/14.
• On 3/6 I ran a 10k (training series run). I ran in it 58:49, with a pace of 9:28. Definitely an improvement over last year, but I was hoping for a pace closer to 9 minutes, which is what I need to break the 2 hour mark in the mini marathon.
• That afternoon we went to look at the original dream house. Turned out it wasn’t so dreamy. We saw lots of issues, our realtor saw even more. That night M and I were so depressed as we realized we’d be homeless on 4/24 if we didn’t find a new house. I really haven’t been that emotionally exhausted in a long time (which is good!).  We immediately commenced searches on realty websites. M found a bunch of houses. I found a few (my preference is closer to downtown than M’s). Our realtor found a few more.
• On 3/7 we went looking again. We saw some truly terrible houses, some okay houses and then went to the last house. The last house was one I had picked. It’s a mere 4 miles from home. We fell in love. We went and looked at it again on 3/8 and put an offer in that night. By 3/10 we finally had a done deal. We move between 4/22 and 4/24. So much for fall 2011 (and I couldn’t be happier – I have wanted to move since…well…I moved in with M originally. I’m not a fan of the suburbs.) Here’s a sneak peak of the house. We are doing the inspection Saturday and I will take many more pics:
• On 3/13, I went to an Endurance Symposium at a local YMCA. A co-worker of mine who does triathlons invited me and I thought it was a good idea. I had a good time, won a pair of $95 shoes, and joined the Y and a triathlon training club at the Y (my co-worker’s real reason for inviting me was to get me in the triathlon training club I think. He’s been telling me to do it for a while).
• On 3/14, I decided I’m officially addicted to racing. At 8:20 a.m. I did an indoor triathlon (15 minute swim, 25 minute bike, 20 minute run) hosted by the new triathlon training club. I won – there were only 2 people in the experienced division, but I actually officially won the women’s division. Don’t be impressed by that. You can however be impressed that immediately after the triathlon I hopped in my car, drove downtown, and ran the 5k. It wasn’t my best 5k – 29:46 (that’s my official time; they didn’t have starting mats. My real time was 25 seconds or so different than that). I’m not mad about my pace considering the triathlon earlier that day, but I’m going to pick up the intensity of my runs and move back to 4 days of running I think.
• This week I started working out at the Y. Monday (spinning) and today (killer strength workout) I did with the triathlon training group. Yesterday I did a workout by myself running and swimming because I couldn’t make the “team” practice. Because of joining the group, I am going to have to change how I train but this will hopefully be for the better!

And that brings us almost up to today. It’s been a crazy month. I’m trying to get a concrete training schedule in place for the next year with my races all mapped out. I am hoping to do a few Olympic distance triathlons, a bunch of sprints (some for workouts and not as races), a few half marathons (one with my mom so speed won’t be a goal, finishing will), and a marathon (or 2 if I get in NYC and am really crazy since that’d make 2 marathons in a month!).