surprise

up ~5 for spin at 6am...i like this class a lot...there are not a lot of people and i feel like i am working out before i realize it...so that is a good thing...these classes are really burning in the legs...it is hard sometimes not to shift when you know that you can...i try not to...and try really hard to stay on cadence...and not to make faces when it gets hard...it took me a long time to relax my face while running...i have to learn to do this while cycling...1h 15m class...about 18 "miles"...of long hills...it was fun...had a bottle of gatorade endurance ..i like it much better then the regular stuff...much easier to drink...

home to make some soup...yes it is 100 degrees yes it is summer in texas but i love soup and not the kind from a can...so i made minestrone and added some pesto i had made earlier in the week that was still in the fridge...yum...good snack...

didn't have much going on in the day so i decided to hit up the 11.30am swim practice and surprise my husband by having a free evening...there were a bunch of people there...but i was in a lane with one other person...i think i am kinda slow in comparison to a lot of people...well at least at this practice...but i liked where i was...and thought that i got a good practice in and was happy with some of my times...swam a 200 in 3.33...which i know is an improvement from my times stuff during swim clinic...and kept my 100 repeats on 1.35 for all of them (8 i think with .20 rest) so that was good too...actually clicked on the paddles...and that felt much easier...i wasn't bending at the elbow enough so i was really feeling it in my shoulders...finally got that down and carried it through to the regular swimming parts...so that feels like i am improving...yeah...total of 2800...

went to 4 different bike shops in the afternoon looking for the bento box of my dreams...no one has it...maybe i need to venture up north...but went to performance, bss, j&a and rei...did buy some stuff that i needed from j&a...what can i say...i am very loyal...um and if you didn't know...nuun has a new flavor of orange ginger...can't wait to try it...

and spent the evening at home...we had a yummy dinner and watched the diving bell and the butterfly...great movie...i cried...but then again i cry at a lot of movies...

oh yeah and i got my 24 week schedule for IM training...wow...