We ended up losing power at our house last night after Denver’s first snow storm of the year took out many of the trees in our neighborhood. We live in a historic part of Denver so many of the trees are 100+ years old and tend to lose branches under heavy snow. We had a few come down around our house but luckily nothing major. We were lucky but we ended up going out to dinner instead of trying to cook on the grill and eat in the dark. By the time we got home the power was back on but it was late. Normally I would let this throw off my plan but I got up and headed to the pool as planned this morning. It wasn’t a great swim but we got it done with my poor husband listening to me whine. Our workout looked like this:

Warm up:
500 free
200 kick
100 free

Drills:
5×100 drills (all front quadrant)

Main set:
10×100

Cool down:
100 whatever style you like

Total: 2400

This was a bit of a change from what we normally do so that was nice. What wasn’t nice is that I got a flu shot yesterday and my arm hurt the entire time.

On another note I am disappointed that I can’t find a half marathon in Colorado in December or January. Last year Cory and I ran the Huge Ass Half in Oregon and had a great time.

I am toying with the idea of just running my own self supported trail half marathon near new years (love to make that a tradition). The HAH was self supported it was just a group of Central Oregon ultra runners who like to get together and run, they marked the course told people when to show up and that was about it.

So I am thinking about doing it this year for just Cory and I on New Year’s day, that is unless anyone wants to join us =)

Now jump over to Blond Ponytail to enter her giveaway for compression shorts, and Tall Mom on the Run for a gear.com give away!

I do swim, I swear I do. I realized recently that I talk a lot bout running, a bit about biking and not at all about swimming. It may show up once in a while in my weekly plans but that’s about it. The issue is that I really don’t like swimming in a pool, it feels so repetitive and BORING. But I loved swimming at my moms club with the clean pool and giant windows showing views of the front range. I am going to be swimming there as much as possible (too bad it s 30 minutes north of us). Next time I will bring my camera and take pictures and hopefully video.

I have not been swimming a lot but I have been swimming enough to need a new swimsuit, the old nike is falling apart. I have my eye on two suits from Splish:

I love the elephant with the peanuts on the back.

I also think that pink skulls are super cute but Cory does not like this one.

Which one would you buy?

I have to share this video it makes me laugh every time. Happy Tuesday everyone, I am off to physical therapy.