Challenge Roth Training: Week 19

7 weeks to go.

Week 19 totals:
Swim: 3. 7350m, 3hr 22min
Bike: 2. 2hrs 20min, Saturday Ride: 0mi
Run: 2. 15mi, 2hr 33min
Strength: 0. 0min
Total time: 8hr 15min

Challenges:
Spent Thursday through Sunday in Kearney for my mom's surprise retirement party, so the challenges were twofold:
1. Getting in my workouts while on "vacation" always creates some obstacles to be overcome. These included finding a place to swim (ended up at the Y, where I had to listen to piped-in country music during my entire swim-sets because Nebraska), and not having the proper equipment to do a long ride, so that was removed from my schedule for the weekend. I feel like my hard-won fitness is slipping away because I didn't do a 90-mile ride on Saturday, and I had Sunday as a rest day. I know that's stupid, but such is the brain of a late-stage ironman trainee.
2. Hiding from my mom for a day and a half because my (cheap) flight got in on Thursday morning and her surprise dinner wasn't until Friday night. I holed up in my dad's "man cave" over his workshop, where I worked remotely both days. My cover was almost blown when a friend of the family saw me running across the Platte River bridge early on Friday morning and emailed my mom to ask if I was visiting. My mom, bless her, suspected nothing and told the friend she must be mistaken. Whew.

Accomplishments: 
Ran 12 miles in 88% humidity. So. much. sweat.

Surprises:
Not a surprise for me, but one for mom when all us kids trooped into her "dinner with her coworkers" on Friday evening. She was shocked. Tears were shed. Loved it. :)

Bonus:
Got to attend my niece Emma's hip hop dance recital on Saturday evening. Incidentally, children's hip hop dance recitals are my new favorite thing. Seriously. It was so much fun! You know how children's band concerts are kind of painful because when kids can't play their instruments, it's horrible to listen to and is sort of a slog to sit through? Well when kids can't dance, it's AWESOME. Seriously, I giggled more than I have in a long time (I wasn't the only one! And the kids couldn't hear the giggles over the loud hip hop music and couldn't see the audience through the stage lights, so no feelings were hurt.), and loved every minute of the nearly 3-hour show. #bustamove