more random thoughts...

in exactly two weeks i'll be boarding a plane to kona. hard to believe we're actually down to the home stretch now. five months later, we can say we ran and biked in sun, rain, snow and sleet!

this past weekend, i went back to my hometown edmonton, canada for my grandmother's 92nd birthday. when we got off the plane it was 9 degrees farenheit. i don't think it reached double digits the entire weekend! talk about the opposite of hawaii! one night i was walking past my grandmother's bedroom and i saw her on the floor doing arm exercises with small weights. it was inspiring. i also got a swim workout in while we were there and got a chance to go back the same swimming pool that i went to for years as a kid. its funny how everything looked so much bigger back then!

tonight is our last BRICK workout before our bikes are shipped to Hawaii on friday (yes, literally they are going by boat. at least this way the bikes don't have to be taken apart). of course that doesn't mean we get a break from running, swimming or riding via spin classes. we still have our last two weeks of training plus workouts in hawaii to get used to the weather. i think my sun-deprived-pasty white-self is going to go into shock when we land in kona!

alright...here we go!