Excuses.... Excuses...

I'm slowly coming out of my end-of-the-tri season fog, I think. The fall season is hard for a few reasons, but honestly these are just excuses:

1. We flipped our clocks back which means it's dark at 5 p.m.
2. It's cold(er) outside!
3. IMChoo is 100 years from now (319 days); how am I supposed to think about training?  It's way too early...
4. It's cold(er) outside. which means our bodies need more insulation, see how I accomplish this here: http://smithfamilyadventuresco.blogspot.com/2013/11/cindys-kitchen-adventures-aka-why-my.html
5. #4, AKA, too many treats, inevitably turns into lethargy and me being not so much fun to be around.

Enough of the excuses. Here's how I turn things around:

• Sign up for a winter half marathon in Arvada on Feb. 9 with Angie:

• Then sign up for a holiday 10K to stay motivated for the half, Dec. 21st, with Jenn Lundstrom:

•  Pull out all my cold weather running gear and stop complaining. It's really not that cold outside (yet). And find my headlamp for added saftely in the dark. Or run on the treadmill at the gym.
• Convince Jason that I should set up my bike trainer in the living room. I've cleaned out and organized the basement so we can move one of the toy bins and the train table downstairs. Sea Breeze gets lonely even though the Baby Tender is there to keep her company.

 

•  Get back to the pool and start rebuilding endurance. 2.4 miles is a long way to swim even if I had webbed feet like these guys do. Which I don't, obviously.

• And finally:

It's not quite time for this, but it's getting close:

 

 

In the meantime, I will try to do this every day:

 

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