where to begin...

I feel like so much has happened since the last time I posted! To save you all an hour or more of your precious lives, I'm going to bullet-point this post.

• Friday night we went to a CFL game. I wore my running shoes that have less than 40k. Blisters from walking around?! FAIL
• Saturday morning was our final clinic at the store with a Canadian Masters Cross-Country champion guest speaker, who gave us great tips for race day... Do's and Don'ts. Hope I manage to keep those straight lol
• Run. FAIL. Feet hurt, couldn't breath with the heat and humidity. Decided that I'm just not loving the shoes, must shoe shop post-run. Picked up these shoes, and some ibungee speed laces. Hope these will be "the" shoe, will be hitting the treadmill today to test them out. Looks like I now have shoes to donate to Fair Weather Runner's Shoe Drive for Africa :)
• Got the cycling jerseys that most of the group ordered at the beginning of the clinic, which one of the clinic instructors designed. SWEET! Can't wait to wear it race day!
• Triathlon training & fun neighbors (and maybe a drink or two or...) don't mix well. Went to sleep at 1:40am, alarm set for 5:50am. FAIL.
• Beach restrooms the day after a fair, or event. DISGUSTING. People are gross. FAIL.
• Open water swim, tough first two 400m lengths along the rope. Felt like I chest was constricted, breathing was difficult. Weird. Deep water swim around the buoys, with the black pool bottom, better.
• Post swim talk from the clinic instructors. This is it! 10 weeks of training was now complete, 1 week away from my first triathlon! Gulp!
• 3 of us brought our bikes to drive up to the race site to preview the Sprint Tri course, and make the best of the drive up. One girl hadn't yet decided on doing the race, since she's signed up for another next month already. She was so thankful we rode the course with her, and she's now registered :)
• 33k hilly ride done, dropped off our bikes, dipped into the Lake Couchiching, where we will be doing our swim next Sunday during the race.
• NEXT SUNDAY!?!
• My dad called me while I was driving home last night in 'cottage country' traffic. He'd gone out for a short run and couldn't wait to tell me!
• Since I was gone most of the weekend, I'm dreadfully behind on your posts. I will do playing catch up, but may just be lurking instead of commenting this week. I really need to do better getting to bed earlier, especially this week, and have a busy work week ahead.
• So while I still have a week before my actual triathlon and becoming a triathlete, it dawned on me that I may already be thinking like one. I had a few days off last week, so I made an appointment with my hairdresser, but worked it around my swimming schedule. Didn't want my fresh color/highlights dunked in chlorine right away ;) Ahhh, the things we do...

Have a great week!!