Where the Boys (and Girls) Are

Hint: it's not Ft. Lauderdale, and I am not talking about George Hamilton, Jim Hutton, Dolores Hart, Paula Prentiss, Yvette Mimieux, and Connie Francis. I am talking about our Thursday nite swim class, and what we are up to.

Christina and Jess (Giggle and Gaggle?) are in Washington, DC, at the SunTrust National Marathon and Half Marathon, with Christina doing a Half to warm up for the Boston Marathon, coming up on April 21 and Jess is doing the Marathon, in preparation for the Ford Ironman Lake Placid Triathlon, on July 20.

Gil is once again a 7-minute man, and recently ran The Running of the Green (Island) 4 Mile Race, and the Guilderland Rabbit Ramble 4 Mile Charity Run. He will be moving up in distance for his next outing, the Demar Dash 5 Mile Road Race, on April 6.

Captain Mike will be "grounded" tomorrow and tackling the Mudders and Grunters Cross Country Race, a 5 mile off road slog through FDR State Park in Yorktown. If they have the same snow cover there that we do here, he might want to think about rading in his running shoes for snow shoes.

Dodie is still recovering from her surgery, and picked up a cold, to boot, so hopefully she's just taking it easy and getting better.

Super Steve, Kelly the Quick and I will be at the Guilderland Y tomorrow morning, participating in an indoor tri: 15 minutes in the pool, 15 minutes on a spinning bike and 15 minutes on the indoor track. I would give you a link to the event, but the Y doesn't even mention it in its on-line listing of upcoming events. Go figure.

I would like to do a little better in tomorrow's event than I did last month in a similar event at the Southern Saratoga Y - a length more in the pool, and the equivalent of 2 more laps on the track ( the Southern Saratoga track is slightly longer than the one in Guilderland). I've been training regularly, and I will be using my new IPod, so I am hopeful. But, I recognize that sometimes when I put pressure on myself for these events, I tend to tighten up, go out too fast and end up struggling. Could happen. To prevent this, I will try to approach this as another workout session, try to do the best I can, and see what happens.

In a little while I will go pick up my race packet, and Donna's, too. She is flying back from SC this afternoon, after visiting with her granddaughters - I bet they ran her around pretty good, which has to be great training, right?

Kelly and I were talking about the event Thursday night, and I mentioned that we get body-marked when we sign in (they use a water proof marker to write our race numbers on one arm and one calf). Kelly admitted that she loved getting body-marked - that it made her feel special. I confessed that I felt the same way. What can I tell you? - I get such pleasure out of the little things in life!

For those of us dreaming of warmer weather and the Pinebush Triathlon, here's a link to a little something extra I found while researching the events I mention in today's blog. It was interesting to get a non-participants take on the PB, and it was nice to read about and see pictures of people I know.

Up next for me is the St John's St Ann's Spring Runoff 5K on April 26, a benefit for their Outreach Center. It will be my first road race of the season, and depending on how things go, my first steps towards this.

See you out there!