Nancy's Blog

Did my arm weight exercises this morning, then I planted flowers, cleaned and went fishing with 3 of my grandkids.  After lunch I took a nap and cleaned more.  Then I swam laps.  I think swimming is actually getting a little easier.  I swam 12 laps front crawl, took a short break, swam 12 more laps front crawl, took a short break and swam 10 laps back crawl.  I wasn't even too dead at the end.

Met the group at Bingham for our track workout.  It sure is hard running without Duke, but I know it is good for me.  I was very tired at the end.  I came home and did lots of cleaning.  After dinner Leslie and I went on our bike ride.  We rode down redwood road to the cemetary road, at least we thought it was the cemetary road.  We rode all around in this subdivision and finally made our way out to the park road.  Then we rode down 13th west to Bangerter.  On the way back I misjudged my gears and didn't make it all the way up the S curve.  I ended up walking my bike the last 50 yards of the hill.  I hope I don't do that during our triathlon on Saturday. 

There were only 5 bikers today at our bunners group.  Dean, me, Amy, Collett and Curt.  Curt tried to show me how to use my gears.  I think I have a little better idea how to do it but I'm sure not an expert.  We had a nice ride.  Thanks Dean for heading our group and Curt for helping me.

Met the group at the soccer fields at 6 am.  After the first 5K I was very tired even with Duke pulling me.  I went one more mile and then decided that was good enough for today.  Then I came home and cleaned and picked and shelled peas.

Did my leg weight exercises along with my stomach exercises and 80 mens pushups.  The pushups are not getting any easier.

Leslie and I did our first Triathlon today.  It was at the South County Pool.  We swam 300 meters and Leslie beat me by about 1 1/2 minutes.  Then we biked 11 miles.  I caught up with Leslie on the bike and passed her up.  I was doing very well passing people on the long ride up the hill past the prison and up the hill going South.  On the way back I was really wizzing until I got to the S curve.  Somehow I did the same thing as last time I went up that hill and I had to get off and walk.  I still did pretty well and passed up all the people that passed me while I was walking my bike up the S curve.  I was ready to start the run and someone told me I still had my bike helmet on so I took it off.  After I went about 1/4 a mile I realized I also had my bike gloves on so I took them off too.  The first part of the run my legs felt like knots, but after about a mile they loosened up.  Leslie passed my during the first mile.  Going up the big hill at the end I was very tired, but I kept running the whole way.  I made it to the end in 1 hour 31 minutes.  Leslie made it in 1 hr 27 minutes.  I was frist place in my age and about 75th overall.  Leslie was 10th place in her age group.  It was very fun.  What really surprised my was that during the swimming some of the people were actually just walking down the lane.