Not doing a very good job of posting

Ok, so I need to get better at updating my blog. This is on my to do list for the next 6 weeks while I am still at home with Sam.

This morning we ran our first 5K as a family. It was a part of our church's summer festival. We were the first stroller to cross the finish line. 1st place for my little cutie! We came in around 27:20 which is slow but not too bad because we are not fast by any stretch of the imagination. We hung out and watched the kid's fun run afterwards...some of those little ones run faster than I do!

The rest of my training has been going pretty well. I jumped into a 12 week sprint training plan with the goal of completing my first tri of the season on 8/23. The workouts are pretty intense.

I am also itching to get back into the pool. I've searched high and low to see how quickly you can return to swimming after having a baby. Finally, I decided to just call the Dr. and ask. The nurse said she had never been asked that question before. Wow - I can't believe that. Anyway, she said as long as I feel like I am healed up (particualrly from the tearing & stitches) it would be fine for me to head back to the pool at 4 weeks. That equals this coming Sunday....as in tomorrow!!!! I'm headed to the pool. We'll see how bad my swimming fitness is.

Here is my training this past week:
7/19 - Day off!
7/20 - Run - Time: 50:30, Distance: 5.21 miles
7/21 - Bike (Threshold) Time: 1 hour, Distance 15.92 miles, Pace: 15.9 mph
10 min warm up 22 min
7/22 - Run (Tempo) Time 32:16, Distance 3.58, Speed: 6.6 mph 12 minutes of tempo & 32
minutes total
7/23 - Bike (Taco Ride http://tacoride.com/) Time: 1:30, Distance 20 miles,
7/24 - Run (Foundation Run with Strides) Time: 40:30, Distance: 4.48 miles, Speed 6.7mph
5 min warm up then 25 min foundation run. Finished with 6x20 sec strides. Cool down
for 6 minutes
7/25 - Run (church 5K) Time: 27:20, Distance: 3.13 miles, Pace: 8.48

Thursday night we went to Kris & Tracy's. Kris watched Sam while Travis & I rode the taco ride with Tracy. We had a really good time. You bike for 10 miles & then eat tacos and have a beer or margarita at the turn around point then ride back to the start in the dark. We have to do this again. I have a link to the ride above in my weekly training details so check it out.