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Westpoint,IN 
Today
Patchy rain nearby High 82FLow 70F
  • Temp: 81F
  • Hum: 58%
  • W: 13mph S
TUESDAY
Moderate or heavy rain shower
High 82F
Low 66F
WEDNESDAY
Overcast
High 76F
Low 57F
THURSDAY
Light rain shower
High 72F
Low 43F
FRIDAY
Sunny
High 66F
Low 45F

September 9

Travel day to Sandusky, OH. Stayed at Hotel Breakers. Hotel is decent. First impression is not the best as they don't know anything about the race ie: where to check in, anything..

September 8

Swim
  • 15m 37s
  • 700.00 yards
  • 02m 13s /100 yards

Swam the Y. Felt good.

September 7

Swim
  • 21m 19s
  • 1000.00 yards
  • 02m 07s /100 yards

WU: 250
MS: 6x50 hard.. (did every one of these in 57 secs.) on the 1:15
250
CD: 200 pull

Run
  • 18m
  • 1.78 miles
  • 10m 08s /Mi

I have a flat tire on my road bike, which is on the trainer. Rather than messing with that, I ditched the ride and just went for a run instead. Ran on the trails at home with Eddie and Max. They had fun. Who knew a cat would like running?? LOL!!

I am going to go to the funeral home tomorrow and spend some time with my grandma there. I'm going to have my very own private pre-funeral. Bless my mom for arranging that for me. Plus, I'm spending the whole day with my mom. That will be nice. I will be able to go to Sandusky and be at peace with my decision.
Then, it's business as usual. Leaving for OH on Thursday as planned and I'm going to give it hell. I didn't spend the last year, including having foot surgery, for nothing!

September 6

Bike
  • 44m 42s
  • 12.03 miles
  • 16.15 Mi/hr

Windy ride!!!
Dist: 12.03 mi (0:44:42)
Energy: 260.9 kJ
Cals Burn: 249.5 kcal
Climbing: 220 ft
Braking: -13.2 kJ (-5.1%)
Min Avg Max
Power 0 97.3 241 W
Aero 0 59.8 267 W
Rolling 0 28.8 55 W
Gravity -408 -0.0 215 W
Speed 0.0 16.1 30.6 mi/h
Wind 8.9 17.3 33.8 mi/h
Elev 195 227 292 ft
Slope -4.9 -0.00 7.1 %
Caden 0 80.0 107 rpm
HR 76 133.6 150 bpm
NP 114 W
CdA: 0.232 m^2; Crr: 0.0055

Run
  • 30m 04s
  • 3.21 miles
  • 09m 22s /Mi

brick run. felt great!

Talked to my mom today and my grandma's funeral is FRIDAY, the day of athlete check-in. If that ain't the shits. I guess my uncle and cousin can't fly in until later in the week. I am pretty upset by this. I asked my mom if there is any way that I can go to the funeral home to see her on Wednesday. She said that she would let me know. What a dilemma to be in.

September 5

Run
  • 1h 20m 39s
  • 8.31 miles
  • 09m 42s /Mi

Long run today. Very good run. Cathartic.

So, my grandma died this morning shortly after 2am. My mom and grandpa were with her. It was very peaceful for her. I am so glad that she didn't linger. I will miss her. I have so many fond memories of her. This week will be interesting to say the least. Not sure when the funeral is yet. I'm in taper.. we leave for OH Thursday.. emotions... this is the first of my 4 grandparents to pass. How lucky am I?? 39 with ALL of my grandparents, til now. I got to go see her again yesterday. She was much worse than Thursday and she said "bye bye" to me. Wow. I am very a lucky, fortunate person to have gotten to say goodbye to my grandma.
I believe that we presented with things at certain times in our life to test our strength. I am a strong person and I know that I can handle the challenge of the week and give myself and my family the strength and love that we will all need to get through it.
I did not cry on my run today, thank goodness, probably because the weather was so beautiful and I didn't feel death was knocking on MY door! LOL! I did think of her though.. especially when this beautiful monarch butterfly flew with me for a couple of minutes. I imagined that maybe it was her.. giving me strength.

September 4

Bike
  • 1h 30m 01s
  • 21.05 miles
  • 14.03 Mi/hr

Nice easy ride. Did not push it at all. Rode on the trainer.
Got my laptop back, yeah!! And I watched Weeds. I've been having computer withdrawal.. :)

September 3

Swim
  • 49m 09s
  • 2150.00 yards
  • 02m 17s /100 yards

One long continuous swim. Besides counting, I focused on visualization of my swim for the race, paying attention to when it is that my arm gets tired. I focused on reaching long, kicking inside the tube, rolling to the air.. overall good swim.

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