It has some since I last wrote. I hurried my last post so I could travel from Texas to Virginia to visit with our daughter and grandson before they left for Japan. She and her husband are in the US Marine Corps and are soon to begin a 3 year deployment in Okinawa. I am going to have to save my pennies to save for at least one trip to see them.
Needless to say, it was a biter sweet trip. Wonderful to see them, but sad to say good bye. We are also looking after their dog for the 3 years that they are away. It was also nice to be away from the rigors of training for a short while. I did a few short runs while I was there but no swimming or biking. I did 2 run workouts around our daughters neighborhood and a third run in DC. The DC run was cool, my oldest daughter and I did it around the tidal pool. The cherry blossoms were in full bloom. The run took us through park areas, the Martin Luther King Memorial, the FDR memorial, the George Mason Memorial and of course the Jefferson Memorial. It was a great run!
It was with heavy heart that we left Virginia and headed home for Texas with a new member of the Texas family (our new dog named Raider). So after arriving home I was on my way out of town and bound for Houston and Galveston. At the first stop Houston I attended Playtri's Houston Ironman Triathlon camp. Three days of focusing on nothing but training for and learning about Ironman Triathlons. Or so I thought. The camp began Thursday night with an informal get together and a short group run. The run went ok but I felt a little sluggish. After the run we met at the hotel for seminars on training and nutrition.
I got through the first half and felt really ill. I was spiking a fever. I said goodbye to the group and went to the the Whole foods across the street to get some chicken soup to take back to the hotel. I rapidly felt worse and worse. After getting soup I could barely make it to the car. Eventually I made back to the hotel and spent the next 36 hours there. So from Thursday night until Saturday morning I stayed in bed.
By Friday evening I felt better and made plans to join the group Saturday morning for a long day on the bike. i was not going to do anything stupid that day. I was not going to hammer it all day and try and keep up with the fastest group. I settled in with a slower group and got a nice 75 mile ride in. It was a really nice course that started in the Conroe area and took us up into Sam Houston National Forest. So for all my preparation and camp fees, I got a short run and a 75 mile ride.
I should have finished here and posted this a couple of weeks ago. So I am posting it now.
