Tired Phase

Well, this is the tired phase. And we certainly are - tired that is. We have been training for 8 months and are now doing long workouts every weekend. We hit the 20 hours per week mark and it is now a part time job. We are feeling strong however, and our event is only 6 weeks away - YIKES!

These pictures are from a river swim last weekend. Skip and Sam are helping me get into my wetsuit - super wedgie!

A couple of weeks ago we did a beautiful ride through the hills in the Woodside area. We climbed up to Skyline Blvd 3 times in 100 miles. We climbed over 10,000 feet that day and it was tough. We followed this Saturday workout with a Sunday workout including an open water swim at Shadow Cliffs in Pleasanton and a 15 mile run. We were beat at the end and were very thankful that we had 7 friends from the team with us on Sunday to keep us moving. This team thing is great - there is no way we would have been able to do that follow up workout without the group. There is nothing like peer pressure to motivate those tired legs!

I want to take this opportunity to thank all of you again for your continued support throughout this journey. Unfortunately we are constantly reminded of the reason we keep doing these crazy things. We have a friend that recently went through prostate cancer surgery (and is doing great by the way) and one of our team honorees, Laura is again going through chemotherapy. Laura has been fighting different types of cancers for over 20 years and she keeps winning her battles but unfortunately, the battles keep coming. She is amazingly positive and supportive of our team. She is almost always out on our long workouts providing water and moral support. She travels to our training weekends to lend a hand where ever she can and she completed the Rome marathon with team in training just a few months ago. This round has been particularly difficult for her so please keep her in your thoughts, she is an amazing woman!