run this amazing day

I've been REALLY enjoying these ABC posts, so here's mine.  You might need a helmet for this one. Age : 29.1 . Bed size : Too small for 2 people + 2 dogs. Chore you dislike : Taking out the trash.  This is why you get married, people. Dogs : You must be new here... Essential start to your day : Granola bar, Flintstones vitamin, then off to the gym. Favorite color : Lately I'm digging dark purple. Gold or silver : I'm not a pimp. Height : Aaaalmost 5'5".  If I stretch. Instruments you play(ed) : I have a few degrees in music.  Voice and french horn.  Close your mouth. Job Title : Director of IT. Kids : No, seriously, you must not be from around here. Live : In a great big falling-down money pit.  I love it. Mom's name : Patricia. Nicknames : Katie, Kate. Overnight hospital stays : I think I've actually dodged the overnight, as often as I've gone under the knife. Pet peeves : People that interrupt.  People that don't walk in a cr...

1. I am no longer young enough to stay up past midnight 2 days in a row, have cheese and cupcakes for dinner, drink 5 beers in 4 hours and then expect to run a track workout 36 hours later without my heart trying to explode out of my chest.  Fact.   2. All the rest is great for everything except my piriformis, which has been hurting significantly more often and more painfully this week than it has since December.  Also, I'm starting to get a taste of what taper is going to be like, and let me tell you now, y'all better just hide or suffer the wrath.  What am I going to do with all this energy?  I feel rested and bouncy and itching to do, well, ANYthing to burn it all off.  But at least my house is clean. 3. My girls are all back home in their various corners of the country.  It was so great to have them all here, and I'm still recovering.  We cooked: Ate out: Stayed in: Took the pups to the park: And it was really awful to have to sa...

And how.

Let's look at how February went! February Goals Cycle outside.  Find a way.   Many fantastic outside rides - thanks, early Spring! Get back in the pool.   Yup, and the workouts are getting longer. Buy one of those darn spaghetti squashes and try to cook it.   Crap.  I did have spaghetti for dinner last night? Suck it up and just go to Costco already.  Take a Valium first?   $212 later, I have enough TP for at least 3 months. PR the stupid 5K so I can stop running them for a while.  Bittersweet, but I did it! February was amazing.  There were ups and downs, but I crossed over so many milestones that I can actually kind of appreciate the downs.  Looking back at my January recap, I can actually see how far I've come.  I'm completely healed from my pulled intercostal, and while my swim workouts are still hovering around the 2000yd-mark, it's enough for right now.  Quite a few spring-type days let me get in quite a bit of...