Follow-through, check!

It's been a good week filled with follow-through.

I got my new bike, as mentioned before, and have been balancing the thrill of riding it (4 min 45 second miles on a trail without even trying very hard!) with the pain of getting used to the much less cushy seat.  The seat may need to be swapped, but for now, I'm taking days off between rides and, with the weekend off, was able to love zooming around for 9 miles Monday night, even though it was drizzling and a little chilly.

I've decided to sign up with the triathlon training group. They start groups three times a year, so I'll be starting in mid-June, and the focus race will be at the beginning of October, with lots of other opportunities to go race, support, and cheer teammates at other events.  There are many group workouts scheduled during the week, so I can be as social as my schedule and the constraints of the DC-area transit system will allow, and the running workouts are more about heart-rate than speed, which is good, because I can get my heart rate to go up a lot easier than I can get my speed to go up (sort of joking, it's not actually good that I can make my heart race as easily as it does.  If it didn't calm down so quickly, I'd actually worry about this).  This means that there's yet another opportunity for me to buy myself a new toy; I've been looking at heart-rate-monitor/watch combo things, but will probably delay getting one for a few weeks.  There's been a lot of spending recently.

Some of the spending has been going to committing myself to go be active while someone times it.  For the third year in a row, I'm going to go do the Poplar Springs 5K. The course is full of hills which cause me much wheezing, but some friends are doing it, and then there is vegan yogurt afterwards (ick).  I also signed up for a 1 mile lake swim, which may be a stupid idea, not that I can't swim that far, and not that it's in a lake, but because I decided to not try to rent/wear a wetsuit and may end up blue at the end.  There are other non-wetsuit swimmers signed up though, so it won't be that bad, right?

Two Sundays ago, I went and did a 5K while some friends did the associated 10 miler. Sadly, I was slower than last year, but it was a great deal hotter, so I'll take that as my excuse.  Also, sadly, I was beaten by a 5 year old. There's really no excuse for that. I did beat him last year when he was 4.  If I train hard this year, maybe I'll beat him when he's 6, but shortly after that, there may be no hope of me catching up with him again.

I finished a crafty project last Sunday by going up to Silver Spring to rent a sewing machine for a few hours. It's fun to start projects, but it's also really satisfying to finish them off. 

I'm really looking forward to sitting down to start watching the next House DVD from Netflix tonight after jogging.  DVD watching time is my prime time for working on a never-ending hand quilting project that I've been making for myself. (Now that I said here that I'm going jogging tonight, I'm committed and will have to go, even if it's gray out. Yay sneaky self-motivation)