I'm on a train!

OK, so I couldn't think of better title for my catch up post. It was that or catch up post. Yeah, boring.

It has been a while since I've blogged and a lot has happened since March.

Race/training, I'm getting slower in my run, much much slower. I should be training hills but haven't for the last while. The heat was taking a lot out of me, I crashed and hurt my elbow, rolled the ankle, etc etc etc. Lets just say, I'm very slow and getting more clutzy, if that's even possible! I did, however come in first in my age group at both UBC triathlon races this year, did much better on the Subaru triathlon (although my running, so very slow!). Open water classes with Seahiker are going fantastic. I still get terrified (like the other night when the water at Jerico Beach was clear for once!) but I'm slower working through that.

I started a new job, working for another engineering company. That's going well, busy, and even got a spot bonus from the project manager on my project. I was surprised and amazed for getting a spot bonus from someone like him and for simply doing, what I thought, was my job! And yes, all the money was spent on race stuff, shocked? The downside, working in Gastown. There's so much to eat and buy in Gastown! I'm pretty sure I gained 5lbs in my first week working there. Delicious though.

Speaking of delicious in Gastown, Acme Cafe, Nelson the Seagull and Timbertrain. Three of my favorite places to go! Each different, each unique.

I got two weeks out to my next race and I'm terrified. I want to finish, even super slow, I want to finish and trying to remain positive in the face of me getting even more slow on the run is very difficult. I think the bike for this one will be decent, it's loops just around Stanley Park, the run is through Stanley Park and the swim is two loops of the water at Second Beach. Last year though, big thunder storm rolled through, crashes on the hill around the back of Stanley Park, and some of the swimmers had to be pulled out on the second loop of their swim. I will cry if this happens to me (the thunder!!). Yes, I'm a big baby.