Well, I know it’s been a while since I have blogged. . . I have been busy with recovery, work, and all kinds of fun stuff. The recovery is now in the stages where I don’t want to hurt someone. I tend to bite off more than I can chew sometimes, and I went back to work a week after surgery. I told myself I would do partial days but it didn’t work that way. I ended up toughing it out and going back to work full force. Who knows what I was thinking, but it is over and done with now so oh well.
Good news is that I got my stitches out last week, thank goodness, and was given the clearance to jog/run and start swimming this week. I did the Susan B. Komen 5k on Saturday since it is for such a great cause, and it didn’t go too bad. I have to say I don’t recommend not working out for 9 weeks and then doing a 5k after running only once in that timeframe. I never claimed to be smart. I did jog the 5k with a little effort, and finished right under 27 minutes. It was nice to help for charity, but I really enjoyed my jog by myself today much more. Now I just have to keep the motivation going . . .that should be interesting.
I do want to say congrats to ALL the hammerheads, age groupers, and spectators (me) who went out to the Greenwood SC Half! I went out to volunteer and cheer on everyone that I am normally racing with. I thoroughly enjoyed myself and agree with Kat Welling, spectating (is this a word) is exhausting! Sarah Parker finished her first ever half ironman, and did great! I couldn’t help but laugh when she was on the run course complaining about the run and in the same sentence asked if she could be ready for an IM by 2010. There were lots of great finishes on Sunday, and lots of pr’s. Forrest, the person who tries to keep me in line, had a great race beating his pr by almost 15 mins! Forrest, I think you have some work to do on me if you are pulling races out like that. Greg Spindler also had an awesome finish, 11th overall! If you haven’t met him yet, click on his link to the left and learn about the services he has to offer, they are well worth it.
I have one last person to congratulate . ..Lucy Allen finished her first 75 mile ride! She did wonderful, and also raised money for MS at the same time.
The last update I have is Zeal Optics is finally giving a coupon code for all of you to have so you can try there product! I will get the link on the left updated where it will have the coupon code below it, but for now you can go to www.pro.zealoptics.com (copy and paste website address), then the code you enter is ZEALBLOG20 and the automatically gets you into the site with the 20% discount. If you haven’t checked out these sunglasses, you need to. I personally have too many pairs, so my hubby says, and I am always trying there new styles. They are lightweight, versatile, and also made from recycled products!
Hopefully I am back on track and will be back to my website a couple of times a week! My mom always said if you don’t have anything nice to say don’t say anything at all, so rather than complain I thought I would remain quiet. Thanks to all the friends that have helped through the last month, I haven’t always been cheery! Regina and Ashley, the pity party isn’t over yet so don’t think your jobs are done. I won’t quit yet either:)
