One more post for the day...

Things that make me smile....

View after my run this morning

Sunrise before my ride yesterday morning

This is too funny...

I just had to share!

Happy Friday!

I love my family

St. Louis last weekend was an absolute blast. The whole family was there ( except for my sister..she had to work and stay here :( ). My aunt, uncle and cousin from Oregon. My cousin from Miami. Family from Texas. Everyone. We just enjoyed the company and drank a ton of wine. Who would have thought?

Here are some random shots from the weekend:











We also went to a baseball game - Royals vs. Cardinals. All 16 of us went - and my Cousin Erik snagged us the best tickets out of the group! whoohoo Eric!




So it was a fun, fast, and great weekend. Now I'm back at the beach detoxing :)

On the training front - I'm finally getting back into the swing of things. With out having a long race in the near future, I'm just kind of running, biking, and swimming for fun. And to keep sane. Work has been nuts - so training has been my bitchiness outlet!!

Hope everyone had a great long weekend!!

Hot guys in my Kitchen

So, I have three smoking hot guys in my kitchen.

And a random Homer Chia Pet



But I'm leaving for St. Louis tomorrow and I could not be more excited. I get to see family what I have not seen in a few years. And spend some quality time with my mom, dad, and brother. Corney as it sounds, I love my family to death!

Training related - we had our normal weds run this morning. But we had THREE guest stars! My friend Dishman is in town (who did the mexico beach tri with me) as well as one of my training partners step daughter and her boyfriend. We pretty much looked like a road race at 6am - but with no numbers. :)

Hope everyone has a safe and fun LONG weekend!!!

Dear Disney,

I love racing in your corner of Florida. Do you know why? Because you have nice, clean bathrooms. And not only that, they are NEVER out of TP. Ahhh...what every racer dreams of.

Love,
Chloe


Random thoughts - I'm very tired and my brain is fried from driving, racing, driving, and then a hard long workday. So here is a super short race report - more detail later:

Florida 70.3 was awesome. Had a blast with my friends. Jason was an AMAZING cheerleader. And I cut some time off of New Orleans with a 6:11!! Whoot whoot! I know it was shy of the under 6 hours I was hoping, but I cut time off of my bike which really made me happy. Karen and Jim where under 6 hours and Lisa had some issues with the heat - but she still finished with superwoman strength. No doubt. What has she done since April? New Orleans 70.2, BOSTON MARATHON, then the relay last weekend, and now this?!?!? She is a machine!!

The swim was flat, the bike was flat, and the run was hot as hell. (how do you like that race report?) I seriously think that we where running in hell - on grass, around swamps. But the volunteers where AMAZING. Every mile (it was a 3 loop run) there was pretty much a buffet of anything that you needed. Water? Yes please. Ice? Down my top. Grapes? Oh yeah. So a big cheer for the girl scouts, boy scouts, and who ever else from the Orlando area for keeping us cool!! You guys where amazing!

All in all the race was great. The set up was amazing (who would have thought that there would be a horse right next to my transition?) the support can't be beat, and the organization was awesome. It was hot - but hey, we're in Florida :) I'll be looking forward to doing this race next year!

Here are my shoes before the race:

And after:

2700+ people running on grass + aid stations = nice dirty mess :)

In other news....
Little Chloe Swam in 3 mile bridge swim in P-cola over the weekend and did awesome! I'm always kind of creeped out by that race - a swim in the bay? Right next to a huge bridge? Ugh. I don't even want to know what is swimming around me! Congrats to Little Chloe!!

Ok. Random and short. Congrats to everyone else who raced over the weekend - specially Little Chloe, Melissa and Jim (flatout buddy) !!!

Going to the OC..

Orange County Florida..that is. Ironman Florida 70.3 is this weekend. And I'm actually getting pretty freaking excited about it. Hopefully, if I don't pass out from heat stroke on the run, I'll be able to get under 6 hours. If I race smart I think I might be able to make it. The swim should be nice a flat (umm..since it's in a lake) - but I'm really going to focus cutting 15 min off of the bike and 5 min off of the run working to hopefully come out with a 5:XX finish time! That would be awesome.

Anyway - Karen and her husband Jim are heading down from Atlanta to stay/race with us and Lisa W (one of the three buff bitches from last weekend)will be racing as well. And Jason will be on the sidelines cheering us on. This will be his first triathlon experience - and I think it's going to be a good one.

Other then triathlon business - next weekend I'm heading to St. Louis to see a TON of family and friends. One of my best friends from Kansas City is heading over to hang out as well. Here is an old school picture of us...drunk...and one of our fav college bars. Ohhh..the trouble we used to get into.


Good luck to everyone else who is racing this weekend!!!

Miami 2 Nola - Save our Seas

Margo Pellegrino is on a mission to educate people on what exactly is going on to our oceans. She is doing this by kayaking from Miami to New Orleans - spreading the word and educating people along the way. This is her third time major outrigger trip for Save Our Seas (SOS). I love the ocean - and the nothing gets me going (well, bad parkers are close) then seeing the destruction of it. Check out her her website and her mission. This is such an important issue - to please take the time to check it out!! :)