This weeks big challenges

[threadwalker]

1. Work: Partner with group X. Progress is good.

2. Projects: Sew eyelets. My lunch and BART project this week. I should get 90% done by Friday morning.

3. Kids: N needs to read more. sigh. We seem to cycle up and down on the reading and it's in direct relation to my energy/input on this. In order for all of us to succeed, I need to get to work early by 7am so that N is doing his evening reading earlier enough while he's still alert.

4. Fitness Challenge: My company has a holiday on Friday, so I'm going to mock-up my triathlon on Friday while the kids are at school. It won't be as hard as the "real deal" since I won't have open water, rolling hills or other racers to deal with. But it will be a good practice run and my home-base will be Cowell Pool in Concord.

After I am done torturing myself Friday and get cleaned up, it will be time for a robust, protein based lunch. If anyone's in town (Contra Costa Co) and interested in lunch plans, shoot me a message either here or a text on my cell.

And after that's all done, I shall retreat to the Corbie Cave for sewing madness and another installment of Babylon 5

Right now my plan is to load my car with my bike, bike gear, and running gear. I'll dress for the pool in swim-suit (not tri-suit since I don't want to douse it in chlorine; you aren't supposed to wash them with soap because it might damage the high-tech fibers). I'll probably get to Cowell Pool (Concord) around 8:00 am. Then I'll swim 1000 yds (longer than tri). Then change in locker room and scoot out to bike and put it together. I will either do the trail near by (15-18 mile loop) or come up with something that's less chopped up with intersections. And then, getting back to car, change into running gear, stow bike, and run 4 miles.

This will be a great gear and transition run through.
-Time to open up the heart-rate monitor and put batteries in it.
-Time to get some Goo.
-Time to get the camel pack cleaned out and set up my own aid station at my car.
-find the special biking socks
-see how my tri-clothes fit and move on me - rubbing = bad!

I like this plan. It is a good plan.

Comments

[shutt3rg33k.livejournal.com]

I feel vaguely guilty for enjoying the weekend working with the boys.

[thread-walker.livejournal.com]

Why would you feel guilty? I enjoy that stuff, too. Healthy, bracing work in the great outdoors. It's awesome. I'm glad you had a good time; you deserve it.

(still confused about why you'd feel guilty...)

[shutt3rg33k.livejournal.com]

Some silly notion that I should be playing with the girls, maybe helping with the sausage-making. But, honestly, I'm better with a hammer than a whatever you'd use to make sausage thing. I did mean it when I said vaguely... ;)

[thread-walker.livejournal.com]

lol.. well, I think all of us just need to embrace who we are and be able to honestly enjoy the stuff we enjoy without trying to fit into someone elses ideals. I think it's hard enough to figure out who we are from the inside out without internalizing outside expectations.

[beanolc.livejournal.com]

Ignore that silly notion! I'm usually more comfortable around guys, personally. Besides, it wasn't an either/or weekend... those were two separate efforts that just happened to have a common thread.