Week 1

Since my "official", or we can also call it less luckluster more scheduled, training started on Monday, let's see how it is going. Not very well I must admit.
I did an easy 4 miler on Monday night in a storm stopping by the house every mile because A was screaming her lungs out if she was not outside listening to evening sounds and I felt bad leaving Nathan with her alone. But they were fine.
Tuesday I decided to do 3x mile on a track. I love track and I was excited and confident but it turned out to be a big fat fail:( I was going to go there after Nathan comes from work and then he was going to meet me there to perform a baby hand over so he can go to his evening class. Well, he got home 20' later than expected, my wedding dress arrived so of course I had to try it and then I suddently had 40 min before he needed to go to his class and it is 20min drive to the track. I decided to still try it, speeding and pumping while driving.... My warm up was a 2.5min jogfrom the parking lot to the track and then started my first mile. 7:57, right where I wanted to be and it felt good. Then my stop watch died! My favorite watch!!!! I have had it for almost 18 years. I got it for my 15th birthday and I loved it! I am going to try to put a new battery in and see whether I can get a few more years out of it. Anyway, 2nd mile and I died. I dont know what pace I was running but I think it was 9+. And I only did 1200m and had to stop because Nathan arrived with the baby. I still had one mile to go and A was sleeping in her stroller so I figured I can run it since I will see her from anywhere on the track and I would be coming around every few minutes to check whether she is still sleeping. And yes, she slept right through it and also through a few strengthening exercises I did after. And that last mile? It was a dead march, probably 11 min pace. I almost cried! I know know why I fell apart. Maybe all the stress leading up to the workout?
Wednesday I did muscular endurance (big gear) ride on a trainer (5x6 min) and either my powermeter pedals are not calibrated or I should just forget this whole triathlon thing and start competitive eating instead....even on ME pieces my power was 90-95 watts. I am 99% sure it is the powermeter but there is still that 1% that makes me quite worried.
Thursday (today) was a beautiful day, sunny and cool so I decided today is the day. A's first stroller run. I bundled her up so she couldnt move, put her in her carseat and into stroller and off we went. That stroller was heavy! I take her for stroller walks daily but without the infant car seat and adding the car seat and all the blankets I used for padding added quite a weight. We did 4 miles and although it was super slow I was happy with it. She was happy too, slept right through it:) I think I will like running with her for my recovery runs and Nathan will run with her too so I am on look out for a BOB now. Stroller I have is great for walks since I can go with car seat or without and I can turn the stroller seat portion facing out or facing me and I like that variability but it is not great for faster running. I found one on craigslist in St Louis (1.5h drive) and I am going to look at it on Sunday since I will be in St Louis. Then I did 30min easy ride followed by 1mile off the bike at 10pm after A went to bed. Two workouts in a day! Go me!

And why will I be in St Louis on Sumday you ask? I am doing a sprint triathlon. It was an impulse sign up and I am sure I will regret it 25 yards into the swim....Plus, what to wear...what to wear? I am 40 pounds overweight (I havent lost any weight in the last 3 weeks! Very frustrating!) and none of my old tri clothes fit. I have 2 days to figure it out (although I doubt I can figure out wetsuit situation. Obviously I cannot fit into my wetsuit. I will just have to swim very very fast to get out of water asap. Btw, I have not swam for months.)
Oh, and I am doing another sprint triathlon following Sunday too. I am not sure what I was thinking last week signing up for all these races! Im excited to race but I think I will be frustrated with my slowness.

Alexa had her 2 month check up today and she is at 10lbs 10oz (7lbs 2oz at birth) which is 25 percentile and 22 1/4 inch (20inch at birth) which is 50 percentile. She was at 25 percentile for both at 6 week check up so she seems to be growing in height more then in weight. Well, I am 6' so she might take after me. And she got her shots. She cried to 1min and then she was her happy self again looking around and taking the world in.