I see a triathlon team in my future

I'm much more obsessed with the whole triathlon thing this year than I was at this point a year ago. Work has blocked the stupid villages game so I've been forced to read blogs and NYTimes for distraction during simulation runs. All the blog reading, plus some talking with my favorite exercise instructor lead me to RSVP for an information session about a real training group, so I'm going to go learn more about them tomorrow afternoon.  I'm particularly curious about the fees, because it seems like this group is providing a lot more support than other local clubs, which is cool and all, but probably means they would want more than $35 a year. 

Last night was a jog with some coworkers who are doing the 10 miler later this year. It was exciting to happily keep up with the slow group. We did 4:1 jog/walk with a long walk break between the 1st and second mile and I loved how good it felt. Not like I could actually breathe steadily enough to say long sentences, but I did wheeze multiple words in a row sometimes. After all these years of trying jogging and giving up and trying, it actually is getting better! Crazy!

I've ordered my road bike and am excited to pick it up tomorrow. I have to make sure that I don't get 20-miles-worth of excited the first time I head out because I'm doing the GW Parkway 5K on Sunday, and that will be less fun to try hard at if my legs are jello.

I'm also looking forward to trying to eat all the kale that will be starting in about a month. I've signed up for my farm again.  It turns out they do a group delivery to the building next door to where I work for a $100 discount off of the normal door-to-door delivery price, so I'll have to lug my veggies home and up my own stairs once a week,  but I think the +$100 is worth it.

Basically there is lots of excited feelings out here right now. I'm sure that it is intricately related to the fact that Spring Is Here!! It's been beautiful outside, it's finally not dark so early at night, and it's not humid yet! YAY Spring!

(Is it worth suffering the coldest winter of my life to feel this excited? Actually, maybe it was)

No bike yet

I still haven't got the bike. The bike stores I like aren't big enough that I can wander around and be anonymous, which is my favorite way to shop, so working up the courage to go in and actually talk to someone is taking a while.
I did however buy myself some other presents, including a set of paperback Harry Potter books 1-6 which was deliciously discounted and a heart rate monitor/watch thing, but it was sort of gigantor on my wrist, so I'm waiting to hear back from the people about whether I can return it for a slightly smaller watch part

I'm on track to justify the HRM/watch as I gear up to this summers activities. Overcoming the winter-of-sloth feels wonderful. People from work are doing a sort of group training thing to get ready for the Army 10-miler in October (which I did not sign up for), but I'm hoping to keep up with their training and do the Navy 5-miler at the end of September. Yesterday I had a nice (as far as jogging slowly can ever feel nice) 3+ mile outing and am excited for the 5K coming up two Sundays from now.

Besides running around (literally) I've signed up for a glassworking thing. I think that I will not actually be doing much of the hot glass stuff, but it will be neat to go and see the workspace. It's not particularly metro close, so (circling around to my first point) I need to get a bike!

Last point, I'm excited that I might've found some co-workers who will come swim laps with me occasionally. And one of them might sign up with me for a lake swim at the end of May. It will probably be cold. I'm still trying to talk myself into paying someone so I can go do a mile of splashing in cold water.

Summary

I spent last weekend out in CA for a beautiful wedding reception and a great time visiting friends and realized, in talking with them, that while I am apparently capable of updating facebook with meaningless nothings, the non-archiving nature of facebook means that when I try to remember what I spent the last 6 months doing, I have nothing to fall back on. So I'm going to try to put up a little more here, even if it's as brief as a facebook update.

• I was totally looking for a way to rent sewing machine time a few weeks ago, and now there is one! Awesome! And it's super metro close
• I'm madly in love with turkey, brie, honey mustard and baby spinach sandwiches (on thick multigrain bread of course!)
• I bought a macbook in January and am loving it. I try to do the two finger scroll thing on all laptops now and basically look like someone who has no idea how to use a trackpad.
• I hope to buy a new bike this weekend to replace and surpass the one that got stolen last summer. I can't do another triathlon unless I have a bike.