I’ve successfully aged another year. As I mentioned in my last update, I ended up on the winning end of a competition Friday morning, so an extra $100 in my pocket certainly kicked off the weekend right. I was greeted at home by my wonderful wife and got my first presents soon thereafter from her. She did well as always and my gift included a pretty sweet trivia game for PS3 w/ individual buzzer controllers. We tested it out later…good stuff.
That evening, my parents came into town for the weekend. This was a present in itself considering I hadn’t seen them since beginning of February. To make things better, they brought me a cookie cake. As a quick aside, I have a severe weakness for 2 great birthday desserts, the cookie cake and the DQ ice cream cake. There was no ice cream cake this year, but the cookie cake was awesome and we actually got Blizzards after lunch on Sunday, so it’s pretty much best of both worlds. I gladly stuffed my face as a reward for my 6 months of dieting being complete.
My parents also brought some sweet gifts including a plethora of workout clothes (much needed) and a little digital camera. I’m pretty pumped about the camera. My wife is big into picture taking/photo albums/scrapbooking and has a digi-cam of her own that is nicer than the one I got. The main reason I wanted one is to take with me on my long bike rides and out into nature to capture some of the beauty I see in my daily workouts. Along with some of the other weird things I come across. This new one should fit the bill nicely, so expect to see some photo documentation in the near future.
The weekend wasn’t all food and presents, though. One of the reasons for my parents’ arrival was they had volunteered their services to work on our house. We moved in back in August and caught the redecorating bug right away, and the house certainly needed it. Over a couple months, though, we got a dog and headed into the holiday season and things got put on hold a bit. Plus, we had to foot some hefty bills for mechanical upgrades to the house (new windows and furnace). We jumped back into the renovations full-force on Saturday, though by completely repainting 2 rooms. The master bedroom and the living room were both given a facelift and window treatments were also switched out along with new art and some other details. The rooms look great.
I’ll try and hunt down the before pictures my wife took when we moved in. Then I can do a whole before/after write-up on the changes we’ve made so far. As old as it makes me sound, this home-improvement stuff gives some pretty solid satisfaction…just don’t let me look at the bills.
In the tri and training world…it’s pretty much business as usual. I’m in week 3 of Base2, but have adapted my plan a bit. Now, next week is not a full recovery week. It’s dialed down from this week a bit, but the recovery week will be the following week since my first race is that weekend. I have one more long run Saturday before my run focus segment of the season moves into it’s own little 2 week taper…then I finally get to kick off the racing season with the half-mary at the end of the month. Very excited.
I’m thinking May will be bike focused since I’ve only been getting in 2 rides/week usually and am feeling ready for more. Plus, the weather should be (fingers crossed) more consistent by then.
That’s all for now…
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