St. Paul Inline Marathon

Well thankfully this year it wasn't raining for the inline marathon although it was close. We got about 10 drops before the pros started but that was it. Unfortunately then came the wind. Not horrible but just enough to be annoying. It was weird to be there all by myself. No one racing with me or there cheering. Kind of getting used to that in my tri world :) But I enjoyed racingg none the less. This was the 5th annual St. Paul inline marathon and I've participated in all 5. Unfortunately I didn't get to train much for it this year and therefore didn't beat my best time (which was in 2006. 2007 it WAS pouring raing). You can search for my results here. The categories were different this year too. I was in the 18-29 year olds instead of just 25-29. I ended up 12th out of 65 in my age category.

((OK I was trying not to crab but I'm crabby....well more just depressed....one of those days you know when everything seems to be going pretty good, then you get one of those "hit by the freight train and later as you are limping home you fall in the mud" type feeling days. Sux....but for some reason I always feel like I have to write it down. Those of you that know me really well know I am often a better writer than talker ))

I do have the Turtleman tri next weekend and then Square Lake Sept 6th but I guess starting tomorrow I am mentally/physically turning my training to the marathon.

I really felt like I had so much more to say today but I'm drawing a blank. Many times as I've been out training I get these random thoughts or something that I wish I could type down right at that moment. Two quick little things I can remember was last week when I was out on my rollerblades and went by someone cutting their lawn and how wonderful that was because I love the smell of fresh cut grass. Or when I driving to training and they had a moment of silence on the radio for the anniversary of the 35W bridge collapse and I was quickly overwhelmed with a sad shock feeling for the unbelievable things those victims had been through. Because (like now) I never remember what it was or don't have the same feeling or can't find the time to open a new blog page and get my mind into it enough to type it out.

So I'll close by saying sorry for leaving this on a sad note but I'm going to bed with a heavy heart tonight.

Training this week will be mostly running although Dana and I are going to brick on Wednesday and then I'll be biking to Minnehaha DQ on Thursday to meet up with a bunch of TNT folks for Miracle Treat Day where all proceeds from blizzards are going to the Gillette Children's Hospital. What a good excuse for a high calorie treat :)