10) In just one week, my Mom turns 50 years young!
9) Our family welcomed a new member - Kassidy Joye Paradowski - my beautiful little niece! Congrats to my brother Allan and sister-in-law Stacie!!
8) Close friends - Sean and Jess - will be tying the knot this Saturday, August 18th!
7) Ironman Sunday is only 3 weeks and 6 days away - it's soooo close!
6) Closure!
5) My good friend and training partner, Ed Peirick, is about to compete in his first half Ironman this Sunday. I have the utmost confidence in Ed and know he's going to do fabulous!
4) Trek World 2007 - Bikes, Bikes and more Bikes....
3) Seeing my best friend Sonia and her husband last week in Milwaukee...
2) Winning 4 out of 5 games of Shuffleboard against Jon Francis Lewis - new friend and favorite person to beat in Shuffleboard!
1) Realizing that life is full of endless possibilities....priceless!
(Did that just sound like a Mastercard commercial or cheesy Hallmark card?)
Back to training...
Training is going well overall. I have about 2 more weeks of building my training volume and then we will cut back for the final 2 weeks leading into Ironman. Last week, I had 2 significant workouts. On Saturday, I set out to ride the Ironman loop with my friend Jon. It was blazing hot and pretty windy, which definitely took it's toll on us. Overall, it was a good ride. We had 2 interesting incidents.
As we were riding along Cty G, there were several other triathletes riding along with us. The guy in front of me must have stopped paying attention for a split second because he started to go off the road, hit some gravel and almost wiped out. I was right behind him and was lucky to be able to swerve to the left and avoid going down with him. Not too long after that we were riding on Hwy 92 and I think we both agreed that we saw the weirdest thing ever lying in the road - a large butcher knife wrapped in a towel with some stains on it. Definitely made us both wonder!
After 3 long hot hours on the bike, we called it a day. We enjoyed some food and I promptly beat Jon in Shuffleboard. If this whole triathlon thing doesn't work out, I can always take up shuffleboard!
On Sunday, the Madison Multisport crew went back to Devil's Lake to swim across the lake and back. It was an awesome swim for the most part. The waves picked up on the way back and pushed me out into the lake and again I had to make a hard left to get back to shore. Nothing too interesting on this swim - I did run into a giant stick and pile of weeds in the middle of the lake. After the swim, we set out to run. The run was hot and humid. Ed and I ran together for 45 minutes and then I ran an extra 15 minutes to hit the hour mark. After the run, I jumped right into the lake - running shorts and all! It felt so refreshing. I am really ready for a break from this heat and humidity.
The week ahead is going to be insane - lots of training, Trek World, Sean and Jess' wedding...every minute I have is pretty much booked through next Sunday. Phew!
Check out my photos for some of the latest happenings!
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Yay first to leave a comment. I didn't even know about this page. I was just bored and typed in Kassidys name and this is what i got. Love you and you rock!
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