Week one is done…..

only 35 more to go 🙂  Well, it only took me 3 days to get back into the swing of things – by Friday I felt way ok with the alarm sounding at 4:20 am.  We did come to the realization that we get up BEFORE the crack of dawn, as a matter of fact – we are done working out before the crack of dawn.  So take that all of you roosters!

What a great week.  I am encouraged and invigorated with this training plan.  In addition, this is so great to have a “team” working together, supporting each other, and there to suffer alongside – and laugh!!  The “refueling” is proving to be just as much of a sport as triathlon.  Pam was very Rob-like Saturday morning after our swim-run double.  It is a good thing that Rob was not his usual “Rob-like” with the food, or there would have been spitting on food by Pam…. more on that later.

We decided to start a Friday tradition of dinner at a team member’s home after the evening run.  We are still waiting for Mike to start the “official” training program, but he has the food gigs down pat.  It will be nice when Paul and Brook come back from Mexico so we can rotate to their house too.  Brook is clearly the most talented cook of the crew.

I am still not getting on the scale until Friday of this week (the hiatus from workouts plus Holiday food did a number on me), I feel much less soft and leaner. As well I should – after logging all of our workouts into my Garmin Connect calendar, we totalled 9.5 hours of workouts this week.  Woo hoo!! Keep your fingers crossed for both me and Pam as we head toward that very scary step onto the scale at the end of this week.  Racing weight by July????  We will see 🙂