Last weekend we went down to Mom and Dad's so Ben could help Dad do a few things and then I was off Saturday afternoon to head to Nashville to meet up with another preemie momma to do a Triathlon!
We've truly lost our minds, but it was a ball.
We met through our preemie board and her daughter, who is now around 2 1/2 was born at 28 weeks weighing only 13 ounces. Her story is a true miracle. No one ever expected this sweet little girl to make it and she is amazing now!
But, regardless, we met at packet pickup and sat through the "tri for dummies" on what to do and what to expect on Sunday morning.
We then met up with another Nashville preemie mom for dinner, here's the 3 of us at Buca de Bepo's.
This was an all women's sprint triathlon. So it consisted of probably 80% of people who had never done one before. You swam 250 yards, biked 8 miles and then ran 2 miles.
I was totally nervous about the bike ride, my crappy $100 Walmart mountain bike wasn't exactly good Tri equipment.
Lets just say I limped through the biking portion. The gears weren't working right, the course was WAY hillier than they had led us to believe and my bike almost failed me, but I pushed through and finally got to the end of the longest freaking 8 miles of my life. It would have been easier to have just run it!
Then around Centennial Park twice and I was done. My time was not pretty, but I finished.
Now, I have new bike on the brain : ) I really enjoyed doing this Tri and can't wait to do another, but a new bike is a must. So, I'm selling crap on ebay, will combine Mother's Day, my birthday and then our Heath and Fitness allowance from work to combine to buy it......lets just say, it's not a $100 Walmart bike and I didn't realize how expensive bikes are!
If you want to read all about my Tri, here's my very LONG blog post about the tri and what I learned. It was a ball and everyone should try one!
I was quite happy that it was much easier than my half marathon and that I had no soreness on Monday and my butt really didn't hurt from the bike ride, which is impressive considering the last time I rode a bike about 6 years ago, I recall having trouble walking for like 3 days!
Monday was Ben's mom's birthday and I've got to get my butt in gear and figure out what to get her since she doesn't provide any ideas.....hint.....hint.
All is going well with Mallory.
She is enjoying the helmetless life. She's started standing up in her pack and play and pulling up on about anything she possibly can.
Her little peach fuzz head is growing hair like crazy.
She's just such a delightful kiddo!
Ben picked up his deer mount from the taxidermist this past weekend. Can't you just hear the excitement in my typing, lol! So, now we have 3 deer in the living room. Yippee. I can't wait to get a basement.
Tomorrow should be fun. We are heading to the Louisville Zoo for the Kosair's NICU reunion. I'm hoping we are able to see Dr Sing and some of our favorite nurses. When you are there for 5 weeks you kinda get to know them.
I can't wait to see Mallory's reaction to the critters!
And, for anyone contemplating running, Christi and I will be starting our next 1/2 Marathon training plan on Monday. Come be our virtual partner!!
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