Its been two weeks of respite.

I took the entire first week off after the race.  To be fair, for the first two days, I could barely walk, let alone workout.  I ran a 5k race on Saturday morning, nice ‘n easy – my first workout since the big one.  It went.  Not quickly, but it went.

I’ve been eating whatever I want, and quickly realized that sometimes what I “want” isn’t actually what I want.  It’s what I think I want, and when you allow yourself to eat anything, you end up feeling like crap.  For example:  I ate 7 mini Reeses cups in the car the other day on the way to a training session.  Then I felt like crap.  For further example:  I ate pasta for lunch and dinner last week, several days in a row.  Then I felt like crap.  I think I crave the carbohydrates in pasta and baked goods, but when you eat them whenever you feel like it you remember that your body likes things like, let’s say, vegetables and protein, more.

3 more days of this eat whatever you want mentality.  One of the meals in those three days WILL be chicken and waffles.  Then I’m back on it.

I’ve played racquetball, run for the fun of it, and worked out only when I wanted to.

I’ve also baked cakes.

And gained 5 pounds.  In two weeks.

Like I said, back on it on Monday.  On Monday I’m going to start with a serious weight lifting program for the winter.  I’m shooting for 3 days a week of weights.  I’ll need to buy some more protein powder.  Interspersed with weight lifting will hopefully be some bike riding.  And some running.  I’ve promised my mother-in-law that we’d run a 5k in under 30 minutes on Thanksgiving morning.  Totally doable, if she’ll commit to running with me 3 days a week.  Mary – are you reading this??  Pressure’s on!

I keep reading the updates from people in Kona, and I feel that tug that says “do an Ironman”.  Actually, more than that, I feel the tug that says “go to Hawaii”.  Thanks.  When I was getting my hair cut yesterday my hairdresser asked if I would ever do another half ironman, and I told her that actually, one day I would do a full.  And she said, “When?”.

That’s a great question.  When indeed.  If I take next year off of triathlon to focus on bike racing, and if it goes well and I focus on bikes only for a couple of years, we’re probably going to start thinking about having a kid after a few of those years.  And in my estimation, I’d have to do the full before a kid, right?

Ha.  I said kid.  Outloud.