Infused and ready to go!

Regional Cancer Center in Durham has been good to me, another successful iron infusion on Thursday!!  Six hours of being hooked up to an IV pole and I leave feeling "whole" again, it's amazing!!  Meredith, if you're reading this, I'm really sorry.....the nurse thought my blood sugar was to low during the infusion so she wanted me to drink something sugary.....I chose the Coke over the other choices!!   I swear I

heard your voice in the back of my head saying, "NO, don't do it!!"  Anyway, between the infusion of iron and the can of coke, I think I could have flown out of that chair without the use of wings.  It'll take a few weeks for the energy levels to come back up, but I'm extremely excited just knowing that "normal" is just around the corner and that means better training days and awesome long runs.  

Speaking of long runs....  This week's long run was a 10 miler, which I did on Tuesday with Kara at an 8:23 pace (huge surprise!)  Wednesday was 7 x 800's at the track, between 3:23-3:32.  Friday was a rare opportunity to run long with a friend that I usually don't get a chance to run long with, I couldn't pass up this chance!  We ended up running just under 12 miles in HILLY Chapel Hill which ended up being the highlight run of my week.  We tackled several steep hills, repeated smaller hills, and circled around to re-do challenging hills that kicked our butts the first time around.  Nothing better than being challenged and coming out on top, huge success in my book!

Since I'm experimenting a little bit with triathlons, still trying to figure out if I like them or not, I thought I'd add a few swim and bike sessions this week as well.  I'm not a big fan of the bike yet, so I only put in 15 miles there.  BUT, I've really enjoyed the swimming and even surpassed some of my usual distances.  Today was 2200 yds in the pool, probably the farthest I've gone in several years or maybe ever.  There's something so peaceful about the water, it's so quiet and serene, so soft and gentle, so different from the hot struggle I find in the running, very appealing.  At least I found my goggles and could actually see where I was going this time, very different experience from Monday.  Oct. 14th will be another small Tri race, I'm hoping that this time I'll be a little more prepared for the event.

Though I'm behind in my training, I'm thankful that I'm able to run and I'm heading into fall marathon racing with no expectations of speed/pace, just distance.  I'll have the winter months to work on speed in hopes of breaking the every lurking 3:40.