Last week was crazy busy. I got asked to work a contract for my friend's market research company which ate up most of the week and then we left for Florida on Friday as soon as The Mayor got out of school for D's race.
Working was good...and fun. It was nice using my brain again! And it was nice interacting with adults and feeling like I was actually working while the kids were at home being taken care of by D. I don't want to go back to work full-time but it was nice to have a fun week-long project.
Friday morning Love Bug and I packed up while D went to work for a couple of meetings and The Mayor went to school. I couldn't let him miss a day since he had missed a day from our trip to Orlando and then a whole week because of the flu. So we picked him up a few minutes early and headed to Valdosta to drop them off with MeMe and Big Daddy and then we headed to Florida.
The kids were beyond excited to be staying the whole weekend with MeMe and Big Daddy. So excited that apparently The Mayor said he wasn't ready to come home with us...he wanted to stay with them. And the report back was they were great and well-behaved! Couldn't have asked for better.
Florida was amazing and exhausting. There was a large group of us...some of which were competing in the Half IronMan distance triathlon on Saturday with D and the rest competing in the Olympic distance triathlon and our friend Cathi doing her first tri ever in the Sprint distance on Sunday.
Saturday was a long day. We were up and out of the hotel before 6am and at the race site. D and our friend Laura decided to pace some of our friends during the 13.1 mile run of the Half IronMan. It was HOT and muggy since it had been raining that morning and the heat really drained our friends. I thought it was crazy that D and Laura ran a half marathon the day before they were to do their own Olympic triathlon...but I have come to learn these people are crazy! They are on a totally different level then I will ever be. Their dedication and support of each other was really amazing to see firsthand. I really admire this group of people.
We went out to a wonderful dinner at a local Italian restaurant that night to celebrate the weekend and then were back at the hotel for a early night's sleep because we were back at it again starting at 5am. D was a little sore from the previous day's run but he was ready for his race. He crushed the swim and bike but I was worried about his run. Our friend Meredith (who did the Half IronMan the previous day) laced up her shoes and said she was going to pace D on his 10K run. I told her she was insane and didn't need to push herself but she said she wanted to support her friend. She helped a lot too. I could tell D was hurting on that run but having his friend by his side pushing him helped him beat his goal by 18 minutes and come in 4th place in his age group. So proud of him and the rest of the crew!
After the race was over, we went back to the hotel for quick showers, checked out and headed back to Valdosta to get the kids and then home to Atlanta. We rolled into our home around 8PM and crashed quickly afterwards. It was a long weekend...and I could not have been happier that today was ice cold with nothing on the calendar. We really needed a day with nothing to do. I'm still exhausted so I am going to sign off on this blog post and hit the sack!
coming out of the water
in transition...getting ready for the bike
getting ready to mount the bike
coming back from the bike
leaving for the run
D and Meredith rounding the loop to finish the last 3.1 miles of the race
rounding the finish!
at the finish line
the crew!! Missing our friend (and D's boss Bart - he had to fly out that morning during the race)
D and our friend Cathi - she completed her first tri ever!
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