A video for you!

So I just happened upon this video and could not resist posting! Enjoy :)

I have good news and I have bad news

This past week (spring break!) our church youth group did a local mission project! We spent the week at the church, and everyday did a service project and a kids camp. The first day was yard work, and the next couple days we painted a house. It was a lot of fun! But that meant I didn't get to do much training :( (the bad news) Run accels was about it. So as you can probably imagine, I am MUCH more than ready to get back to it this week!

Now to the good news!! :D I got new shoes!!

They are Zoot Ultra Race 2.0! And I love them! My first run in them was yesterday and they were great! So excited :D In person they are VERY shiny, like metallicy ;) And the best part? They were $150 MSRP... but I got them for $36!! Makes them all the more better ;) Can't wait to race in them!

Thanks all for reading!

"Gear" review!!

In review today:

Gatorade pre-game fuel!

On a scale of 1-10 (10 being the best) and my thoughts:

Taste: 7. It's pretty much just like gatorade, just a little sweeter/stronger maybe... but not terrible!

Effectiveness: 9. Works pretty well IMHO!

How well it settled: 6. At first it was great, just like drinking a normal gatorade. But half way through the run my stomach hurt a little more than usual. I think it's safe to say this was why! Just my body getting acclimated to new nutrition.

Would I recommend it or use it again?: Definitely!

Texture: Liquid. But ever so slightly thicker than water or gatorade.

My only complaint is that it's so big... there's a lot in there to drink! But it tastes better than lots of gels I've tried, and worked well!

This was kinda fun! Cheesy, but fun! I will try to do more reviews in the future to keep it interesting ;) Next in line: Hammer Endurolytes!

Notice a bit more color?

I might have decided to change things up a wee bit ;) (I still can't promise this is here to stay!) But I think the tie dye looks pretty cool! I do love the simple and sophisticated white though... Just thought I'd give something else a try... What do you think?? Like the colorfulness!?

Training wise last wasn't a great week :( I was in Jackson 3 different days, and things just piled up! I did do a hard 5k though! Ran it like the boogie man was chasing me! It wasn't a PR, but nearly :) The last thing I did was just a personal 4 mile bike TT (time trial). Good speed on that one too! :D

This week I'm going to reallllly pick the training up... I probably won't get much in next week being spring break. But it looks like that will work out pretty well! There's a possibility I'll be doing a duathlon March 19, so next can be my taper week! ;) Although it's a very short race (2 mile run/10 mile bike/2 mile run).

To get back on track I'll do a few two-a-days this week! Starting with swimming and running today! Annnd my run was AWESOME! I did 10 x 30 second accels! Ran in my Vibrams and I felt great the whole time... no problems! And I actually covered 2.5 miles with it, so I'm very pleased with how it went!

As for the swim, it was awesome too! 100 meter warm up, then 4- 1/4 mile accels. I swam strong and pretty fast... I did get a foot cramp and my side cramped up for a few seconds but that was it! So it was a good start of the week with training!

Thanks for reading! Don't drown. Don't crash. Don't walk.

I'm still here I promise!

After a painfully long absence! But lots of things have gone down since February 19... so here's the happ:

I had this totally awesome, super cool idea that in my head was going to turn out AMAZING. Like I just knew it would work so well... buuuut it wasn't as great as I intented. (Sorry about all the pronouns!) "It" is a photo with all of (or mostly all of) my tri gear layed out and labeled. I just thought it a really good idea and something to add to the "my gear" page! Well here is how it turned out....

I guess it's kinda cute.... :) What do you think?? Questions, comments, ideas??? It's pretty much how I envisioned it... but I'm not sure. (click to enlarge and see it better!)

I also got some close ups of each piece of gear but I may or may not do anything with those. It's a work in progress! As is this blog! I need more pictures, and interesting/cool things to post about! Just bear with me until racing finally starts again :D

Another thing under consideration right now is new tri tops/shorts!! (the girly/fun part of racing) I have a few in mind from Zoot. I really like the indigo! ;) (I'm thinking the Endurance Tri Racerback) But I'm still on the lookout... There's a little bit of time left!

As for training... I didn't get any in today :( But I did get to spend the day in Jackson at the Capitol with the Teenage Republicans! So I'm hoping to do a significant run tomorrow. We'll see what happens! 

I swam a GREAT swim yesterday! It felt awesome! And I think it's safe to say my form has really improved... I guess :P I tried to focus more on getting my form right rather than speed yesterday. Ready to get back in the water again!

Sorry for such a long post... but thanks for reading! Go train!