What A Weekend! Back On Track!

I CAN TOTALLY DO THIS!!!! :) This weekend was an absolute confidence builder. Awesome!!

E came up to do the course with me on Saturday morning and he went out WAY too fast. He had no idea that the back course of the loop is killer hilly. But he figured it out on loop 2 -- I had to wait for him! But it was good b/c it kept me from pushing too hard. Came off the bike feeling amazing.

The Infinit is AWESOME! Drank a bottle an hour -- or 2 scoops -- it's a little thicker than I am used to drinking, but it tastes pretty good and I was killing it at exactly one bottle an hour. I didn't get hungry until mile 60! And I only got hungry then b/c I was talking too much and not drinking enough. It is so much easier to pay attention to the bike when I'm not worried about stuffing my face with food the whole time!

Stopped by C&D's BBQ on the way home. They have such a nice quiet life. I'm kind of jealous in a way. But I do dig the city life, we'll make a change soon enough - then to my folk's house and crashed there. Eric was beat.

I kinda wanted to do the 1/2 in the morning but hanging with the fam was really good. We slept in and went to mass and mom made us a HUGE breakfast, it was awesome. Of course, we were hungry 2 hours later. Spent the day getting E ready for his big golf outing with the owners - so exciting.

Got back to the city and started the 15 mile run Sunday night about 6:30. Felt GREAT! Got new shoes (fitted by M*diggity, awesome) and my shins were fine, legs felt good, and kept a solid 10min pace run/walk the whole way down. Picked it up on the way back, was donig about 9:45's. Felt so good.

It's amazing that my body can handle all this. 4 yrs ago I was literally running from Addison to Belmont and that was a triumph... That I can physically do all this, it's just amazing.

So I know I can do this race! I did more than 3/4 of the bike and more than 1/2 the run this weekend and I could do it all again today. It might not feel quite as good, but I could do it.

This IM training stuff is really more about mental preparedness than anything else. And I can't wait to hear them call my name... "Kara Smith, You are an IRONMNAN." Holy crap.