So sorry so long...

My apologies for not posting for so long. I was out of town for two weeks and then sick last week.

I am now in my 6th week of training. The running is frustrating me to no end, but the biking and swimming are coming along well. Wow -- I can't believe it's been 6 weeks already. It's going by so fast.

The running is definitely going to be the hardest for me. Fortunately, it's the last thing. I figure even if I can't run the full 6 miles, I can definitely at least walk it! I've done that before -- walked 6 miles! No problem. So I'm not too worried, and I know it will improve over the next ten weeks we have left. Speaking of running, I have to do that tonight after work.

The great thing about training is that I've been finding different places in LA and even Bakersfield that are perfect spots to train and be outside versus the gym. And swimming is the best thing in the world, I've decided. You hop in the pool and the day melts away. For some reason, I can stop my mind while swimming and only focus on that. I can't do that with running or biking. It's like meditation for me. For an hour, two times a week, my mind is calm at rest. It's awesome. Although I do have a tendency to be so focused on stroking and turning and kicking that I tend to forget to breathe. I'll go 10 strokes and then all of sudden have to gasp for air at the surface cuz I forgot to breathe after the third, sixth and ninth stroke.

Yesterday, we were running drills and somehow I managed to cut everyone off as I swam sideways across the pool instead of down the lane. I'm still not sure how it happened, but when I hit the wall, I thought to myself "my goodness, I made it all the way across already." Then I stood up only to realize that I had hit the side wall instead of the opposite wall. The girl who I had just cut off was standing up right behind me and asked "do you just want to stay in this lane?" My coach was standing where we had started laughing at me and wondering what I was doing.

So, all in all, things are going good right now, despite my frustration with running.