Welcome 2011

With a new year are new goals. The more I think about it the more I like the word "goals" instead of "resolutions" when talking about a new year. 2010 was a good year with lots of milestones and adjustments for me. So looking forward to 2011 I have come up with goals to strive for and hopefully achieve most of them. Here are my goals for 2011.

• Try a new recipe every week
• PR a race
• Keep working on my 2010 goal of having more patience (in general)
• Finally organize my GARAGE!!!!
• Travel to a new place (State or Country)
• Pick my IM for 2012
• Try a new sport
• Join a swim masters workout
• Bump up Yoga to 4 times a week
• Spend time with my girl friends a little more and finally....... Try to be more understanding for my son and Mark. Understand that they are men and they just don't think the way I do and therefore that is what causes me stress.
  

This sure does seem like a bunch of goals. But I think that they are doable. I will work on my Dirtydaizies website and work on blogging more with pics and whatnot so that in case anyone out there in cyberspace finds this at all intertaining they can laugh and share some stories.

Welcome 2011

Training for an Ironman

Yep....... Some people just don't get it! We're crazy!!

In between Christmas and New Year

It's that time of year...... tween. The time in between Chrismas and New Years. Christmas was fantastic other than I was sick with a nasty throat/sinus/bronchial infection which I had to call in the reinforcements "Penicillin" to knock them out!! Because well after all it's Christmas and I had family at my house in SD and then family at Mark's and my place in SP. It was a nice Christmas at home in SD with my son (down from SFSU) and my mom and Mark and his cousin and wife. The pork tenderloin from Costco was the BOMB!!!! Very yummy with all the fixings. In the morning Mark and I headed up to SP for round 2 in SP. Mark's kids Ali and Jacob and my son Clint drove up later in the morning and Mark and I prepared for the Christmas Day dinner feast. We had Ham with all the sides you could imagine. Very yummy!! It was very nice to celebrate the holiday with Mark' brother and his wife and his cousin and his wife again and my Dad. So, we drank (my dad as usual drank the scotch/whiskey bottle dry), we took pictures and just like that...... Christmas is over. I find myself feeling a little deflated that Christmas is over and excited that the New Year is about to begin. With the New Year are new resolutions and new thoughts on how to get faster train more effective and seeking out the new bikes and gear. You know..... stuff that is just out of reach price wise. Well enough about that. Saving is the big word of the year for me which I have been practicing for the past few years and learning to live on a small budget. Ok, so enough about finances. Now let's PR some races!!!

No blog like the present

Well....... blogging has been non existent and life has been crazy. So since I haven't blogged since like July. It's time. There has been so much going on that there isn't enough MB to hold it all. Let me just say, now that Christmas is here and the New Year is fast approaching. I'm really happy that family is around and that my relationship with Mark is on a steady path. Friendships seem to grow and more now around the holidays. Workouts are up and down due to colds and rain however they have been productive when I'm able to get after it. I have a few races coming up and need to get beck at it. Yoga needs to be more of a staple in my diet as does some lifting. This year I will work on my writing and take up another language (French) and maybe plan a trip to England France and Scotland for next year. My mother will be 70 and my aunt will be 80 so we intend to celebrate. I'll be cooking more vegan now that my son is at SFSU and my mother eats anything I cook so why not. right?
I wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Safe PR of a New Year. I know I'll try to get that on the books.

-Simone

Forced recovery

Well that pesky issue with my ITB/periformis is still bothering me and I've been hitting it with all of my guns. I think that it's gotten a bit angry with me. First I started more intense yoga and rolling it with the roller, then it was the cortisone injection, then ART (Active release therapy), then a deep tissue massage from my bomb massage therapist Dani. I just love her!! And well things are just so so with it. I've cut back on the running and jumped up on the bike and swim. Though when I get off the bike it's a bit sore to walk. It doesn't bother me when I'm on the bike just when I get off to walk. So, this trip to Alaska is much needed recovery. One week of hiking, kayaking, ice climbing and camping. It will be a much needed rest and recovery. I hope this will help.

Alaska will be sooooo much fun. I'm taking my son who is 18 and just graduated high school and received his Eagle Scout rank. So this will be a double celebration for us. It's just the two of us and we haven't gone away in a long time. I really enjoy camping and hiking with my son. He is such a great helper and loves outdoors just like me. I hope the weather holds out and I can get used to the many hours of daylight. Sunset around midnight and sunrise up at 3am. Tylenol PM will be on tap for this trip just for insurance. I will miss my bike but we will be hiking soooo much that hopefully it will make up for it and not aggravate my ITB. I'll be bringing a tennis ball my roller so that I can get some more relief as well.

When I get back it will be off to SF for the marathon (well half marathon now) Stupid ITB. But that's OK. It's just for fun anyways and it will be a workout instead.

Sydney will have day care 3 days when I'm gone so she will be very happy. I know she's gonna miss her morning walk/runs but hopefully she will have a great 3 days of play with her friends. She will be one year old on July 16th when I'm gone so I'm gonna miss her birthday. I better bring some treats home for her.

I've got plenty of GB for the camera and my candy charger so lots of photo's to follow. The nice thing about this trip is NO CELL PHONES OR COMPUTERS!!!!! I'll be totally in nature and will have to wait until I get home to be on Crackbook and blog. Hey, that's perfectly fine with me.

See you in a week. =))

Blogs

I really enjoy reading blogs. It's nice to read about a race or and idea on nutrition or just some experience that a person has had. It can make for some interesting reading to say the least. Happy days and keep on blogging!! =))

So much to say so little time.....

It seems that I've wanted to blog a bunch and then when I have time I get distracted. Even thought I don't have any followers on my blog it's still nice to write thoughts down and maybe share a little of what is going on in my head. Not that you might find it interesting.

Workouts have slowed a bit because I have this pesky pain in my crest of my pelvis that I've been dealing with for the past 3 weeks. I've tried rolling yoga and message and it has only gotten just a bit better. Even Arnica or Motrin has not helped. I had a cortisone injection last night and hope that it will ease it up a bit so I can back into my running mode. The bike however is looking good and I seem to be riding more lately and really enjoying it. I seem to be getting stronger and stronger and I really like to see that improvement.
I'm supposed to run the SF marathon July 25th but with this injury I have been set back a bit and I'm trying to get into the half instead. Which is a major disappointment!!!!!
I'm focusing on my swimming as well and I really want to crush my next IM distance race next year. I don't think I will ever be a 10 or 11 hr IM'er but maybe 12??? I seem to think that it is all about the bike and the run. And if I can just get those things dialed in and make my swim strong I may have just that chance.

As for races this year I really look forward to Soma 1/2 in the fall and I hope I get into IMAZ if not back up plan is full Vineman in July. Seeing the improvement in the past 6 months really shows me that I can do this and I can become faster. Sometimes the brain takes over and lets be slack off and I really need to stop. For example..... This morning I was going to ride to work now keep in mind that I had a shot last night in my proximal IT band and it was a bit sore. So I blew the ride off and decided to swim instead. Once again changing my mind. I look at it as..... I'm not really training for anything other than the marathon and well you know how that's coming along. So, Lots of riding and swimming this week and maybe a run on Friday I hope. I feel that I've taken so many steps back in my running that it's a bit frustrating!!!

I hope I haven't bored anyone and thanks for letting me ramble on about my frustration and stuff. I hope to get out of this funk and maybe I just need a good slap to snap me out of it!!