What's next?

Well the Big tri has past. I spent the last two weeks of training mulling over what I would do next. Lucky for me the day after Matt & I finished the triathlon Toyota gave me the opportunity (which I am taking) to run the New York Marathon. I'm hoping that the tri training will help with some of the really long runs that go into to training for a marathon. My goal is not to be fast, but just to do this event for fun (and reamain injury free!)

for the labor day weekend I put in a 7 mile run on the country roads surrounding LaRue, it was great!
This comming weekend I'm running the Banco Popular half marathon (13.1 miles), the following week will be a Sprint Tri in WI. After this marathon season, perhaps I'll join the Evanston Masters Swim team for the winter season.

We spent the long weekend in LaRue celebrating my father's 60th birthday. Like all good weekends in Ohio, there was an excessive amount of food, drinking, family, friends and pranks. Family from CO and OK flew in, and my nieces 7 and 6 mos from SC arrived. I had a great time teaching little Miss R all the fun of pranking, and showing some of the kids down the street how to TP a house. Perhaps the most important lesson learned from this trip was that fussy 6 month old babies should NEVER EVER be separated from their Mommy for more than 6 hours, and never 48 hours. It's good to be home.

Chi Tri

We did it! Special thanks to all who supported us in our fund raising for Team in Training, and for listening to us talk about swimming, biking, and running all summer. Below are photos Andrew took on race day.
Quick Summary
We woke up at 3:00 am to get all of our stuff into transition and ready to go. Matt's swim wave started at 7:30 and he was off of the course (done swimming, biking, and running by the time I got on the bike). My wave started at 9:30, and we both finished with nearly the same time of 3:30.

Results
I was 3:26 with an class rank of 180/256, sex rank of 810, and an overall of 3135 of 3928 (swim 35:50, bike 01:29:40, run 01:12:03). Matt 3:30:29 overall rank 3249 of 3928, class rank 432 of 484, sex 2390(swim 35:52, bike 1:34:50, run 1:02:28). In looking at our results both of us are blow away by how the four minutes between our finishes made such a huge difference in our ranks!

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We did it! Special thanks to all who supported us in geting

Long over due photos

In case you were wondering, this summer I did take stop training long enough to share in these spandex - free moments:



This weekend we bought four new tires! Only after getting a flat on the expressway. We got the tire half way changed but had difficulty getting the old tire off. Good thing we finally took Sharon up on that offer to get us AAA.



Anniversary # 2 in Wisconsin.



Cherry Pickin'




Mr. Skitters not feeling guilty at all about the expensive trip he took while we were on vacation.