Just two tiny months until I toe the line at Ironman Canada. I am very excited about this race and about the venue. I can’t believe it will be here so quickly and the amount of work I need to do to get there. The next seven weeks will be full on peak training mode before taper and racing. The weather has turned so there will be many hours spent in the mountains, both in the saddle and on the trails. Canada isn’t an easy course but I am not in it for “easy”

This year hasn’t been easy with lost jobs, selling houses, moving twice and dental disaster that I won’t bore you with. The only thing to do is to shake the year off, and focus on the training. I have been looking forward to Canada for so long I want to show up healthy and ready.

So here’s to the unofficial start of summer and peak ironman training!

It also flies when you aren’t having all that much fun evidently but honestly I can’t complain. Things have been busy in my little neck of the woods. To catch up on the last couple months bullet style:

• Traveled to Mexico and back
• Came home horribly sick
• Went under contract on our house
• Worked like mad to get the house ready to close
• Rented a temporary apartment
• Ran a half marathon on Easter
• Bought a new house
• Traveled to Moab for a little training camp
• Closed on our old house
• Moved into our little apartment and a storage unit
• Continue to work on paperwork to close on new house
• Ran a mother’s day race with my mom in sleet and snow
• Oh and tried to keep up on training for a little ironman I have in less than 11 weeks

So that’s life, feeling a little like a nomad but trying to embrace to excitement of summer, the longer hours of daylight and the rising temperatures. But also hoping for a little more calm and routine going into IM Canada. I am enjoying discovering new trails to run on near our apartment and finding new pools.

In the next few weeks I expect a lot of hours in the saddle, sweating under the sun and smelling like chlorine, bring on triathlon season!