Days 19 and 20

Day 19-Friday was full contact shoe shopping, I was trying on shoes next thing I know I am flat on azz looking up. This should have been a warning for how the rest of my weekend was going to go.

Day 20-Saturday we went kayaking at Lake Merritt, in Oakland it is the oldest wildlife refuge in the US. And on Saturday the water was quite nice for swimming in, which is what I ended up doing when I flipped my kayak at the end of the training what we were having. The “kid” that was our guide was on his way back to the boathouse when tipped over and hit the water. My best friend was in her kayak so I handed her my hat and shoes that were in the now full of water and not Kish kayak. So as the guide makes his way back to us I start swimming and towing my kayak back towards the boathouse. The guide came back and tried to radio the rescue boat, his radio didn’t work. So he was all just hang tight I will go get the rescue boat. I kept swimming; there was no way I was just going to wait for him to get back we were a good 15 min paddle from where we started. He finally shows up with the rescue boat, by this time we have hooked my kayak to hers and she is taking us in. So Skippy shows up with the rescue boat, the plan is to get my happy wet azz in the boat, here is the kicker he is about half my size and from where I am floating the boat is about arms length above my head and my PFD is trying to kill me. He take a hold of my PFD and we bob 3 times and I am to haul my azz up and in to the boat, YEAH RIGHT!!! We try this 3 times with no success. I am not having fun at this point. I asked him if it was ok if I just swim back to the launch area, he said not really. At this time I point out that I most likely out weigh him by at least 2 time and there was no way in hell we were going to get my in to that boat. So I am back to being towed in my best friend in the other kayak. We get to the dock there is still really no place for me to get to dry land, then it dawned on the kid that there was a ladder on the other side of the dock we were at, I finally get to dry land. So I got see the lake from a very unique prospective.
Other then the really wet part kayaking was great.

Day 15, 16 and 17

Day-15 Gym day- was a no go; we are not going to move that to Thursday. Monday is just too hard for us to get our poop in a group to go, it is Monday after all.

Day-16 3.5 mile run- I would like to state for the record that I do not like this distance, it is longer then my short run and shorter then my long run at 5:00am I am having some trouble getting my person to get on board with this new distance.

Day-17 Strength- We have moved the strength training that was on Fridays to Wednesday mornings, we are now swimming laps at the gym, I didn’t hate it I was surprised that I was not unhappy about it. Water is not strong suit. I can swim enough to save my life, but that is about it. I would like to say that swimming laps is hard. I hope some day we will be able to do more then one lap with out stopping to gasp for breath between them.

Day-17 2 mile run-I am going to run this evening with my Vibrums again. that didn't happen.

Days 3-15 So I kinda fell down on keeping up on this

So what can I say, those 12 day were not so good in the training aspect of my life, but in the real world not so shabby. So day 3 was a Wed, we were to run 2 mile in the evening, but no one was feeling it so we decided to run it on Thursday in the am(rest day and day 4). So I am up at 4:20am as always, I get a call from my training partner that she was not going to join me on the run. I went anyway; it was a nice 2 mile in my vibrum fivefingers. We had a party to be at on Thurs evening and there was going to be drinking, so I was pretty sure that there would be no running on Friday. So that takes in account day 5. Day 6 is a cross training day. So now we are at day 7 which would be a long run day as well as Sunday, not really sure what happed with that long run but I am pretty sure that it didn’t happen. Day 8 was a go to the gym and work out day, also know as Monday that didn’t happen due to the fact that is was Monday and neither one of us felt like going…shocking, not! (We are looking at changing that day to Thursday and making Monday a rest day) Days 9, 10, 12 and 14 were all running on the deadmill days in the gym. Wow is it hard to get 4 mile (day14) on a treadmill that will only go for an hour, it takes me about 1 ½ hours to do it out side. This has been hard to commit to, I know it is something we have to do in order to be prepared for the 13.1 but man it is hard to keep it up and we are only on week 3.