Day 1 here I come!!

Ok so this is SO awesome and SO fun. If anything I have learned on this journey it is better to have company! :)

That's why I put this challenge out there to you all and added in a little bonus of a prize ;)

So I keep thinking of how I decided to do 30min a day of "me" time....this does NOT include exercise time, TV time OR my normal reading I do before bed at night!....It does include such things as going for a walk, having a nap, sun tanning, reading (beside my normal reading time) journalling (something I NEVER do by the way) or meditating, plus any other ideas I can come up with...if you have any PLEASE let me know!!!.....whew...OK! I was thinking last night, " AH fuck! why did I pick 30min!!!! why not 20min or less!!! How the hell am I going to fit that in!!!"......but I stick to what I say and 30min was the first commitment I made and I won't back down.

I was also looking for something else and I decided to steal Judy Ricky's idea of taking her vitamins everyday for 30 days. This is a good one for me as it was this time last year I got SO sick I was on IV for 2 day! ECK!......So I realize with all the training I do plus my son going back to school and bringing home all those cooties....well my body can only take so much....



.......so ok Day 1...which starts tomorrow! THANK GOD....oh wait that's only 40min away.....oh crap why did I pick 30min! you know how much stuff I have to do tomorrow!!!



Can't wait to hear about everyone else's journey on the fan page :)



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It's only 30 days! :)

Ok it's time for a challenge :)

My Phat chick trainer posted this video on her Facebook wall and I thought it was AWESOME!!!...then it gave me an idea to not only put the challenge out to you all to do it but have a prize at the end :-)


So perfect timing Sept starts on Thurs and it has 30 days in it!!! So that gives you a day and a half to think about what it's going to be that you want to try. Remember what the guy in the video says small changes are good too.

"So what is the prize?!!!" you ask? Ok so first of all this challenge is for Burlington, Oakville, Milton area people only because the prize is a $20.00 gift card to Beautiful Mama Spa and it's in Burlington. Not that others outside the area can't join in the fun too but just wanted to let you know that the prize is in the local area that I live.


"So what do we have to do?!!!"
Ok so post fan page what your 30 day 'thing' is that you will be doing. Then during the 30 days keep us updated on how it's going by posting on the fan page. Each post you do gives you an entry to the prize. The more the updates the higher the chances you will have to win :)


SO excited to see what everyone is going to come up with. I have decided that I will take 30mins a day for 'quite time for me'.....gulp, 30min is a long time and I thought of changing it to 20min even but thought I'd stick with the number 30 :-)I'm not saying that this is what I will do for the rest of my life, but I'm willing to do it for these 30 days........also, I want to add in something else but don't know what yet....maybe once you all start posting it will give me some ideas........good luck and have fun!


Don't forget to watch the video to get inspired.....remember it's only 30 days!



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Good bye yester-year!

So this year I will be doing the further distance in the ladies Triathlon. Now last year as I turned around at the 10k mark for the bike I would look up and see the big long hill that the 'other' girls had to do for their 20k bike and I was grateful I didn't need to go further :)
Also last year I had to do a 2.5k run. Which is only one loop of the course....and boy was I grateful that I didn't have to do the loop again like the 'other' girls did.....

So fast forward and I am now one of the 'other' girls :s

I didn't really realize this until I was out on the course for the first time a few weeks ago. I was out on the bike and I passed the 10k mark where I turned around last year and kept going.....I looked up at the hill ahead and entered into the unknown...."OH BOY!!!" I thought. Now I have to go further and up that hill....gulp.....what happen to last year!!! where I didn't need to go that far and it was easier!!!........that's when I thought to myself..." Good bye yester-year!".....we in a whole new boat now. But I did the 20k and I survived :-)
Now the run....it's the most hilly-ist course in Ontario I've been told. The course starts off with a hill that goes straight up!....ok so last year I only had to do it once......this year we'll be meeting twice. I plan to walk it the second time around because it just takes too long for me to recover at the top when I run it....and I'm ok with that :-) (walking it that is)

So now I am one of the 'other' girls. One of those other girls that I looked up to last year and watched them ride/run further into the unknown........




....and OMG!!! I just looked to the right of my blog and see how many days is left until the Tri!!!! (7!!! gulp)




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It just keeps getting awesomer!!!

So last night was my Tri training with Mommy's/Babes in Motion. We did the same hill repeat route that we did on the very first night. Our coach e-mailed out the route and the hardest option was a 5 hill repeats which would then equal 20k (which is what my bike distance in the race is this year).....so of course I said to myself, " You're going to do the 5 hills!"...then another part of me said.." OMG that's going to be killer hard!"......then I said to myself, " Yup but you're STILL going to do it!!!!!"

So I did ! and it wasn't killer hard either :).....each time I went down the hill I was like, " Ok here goes #1.....ok here goes #2...." The hill coming up is like a two level hill. It goes up then evens out for a min then goes up up up.....it's a good hill :)
Going down I went like a bat out of hell and got a bigger and bigger rush each time!! Felt like I was 12yr again :)

The bike up...as I got more warmed up they got better....or I just felt better....on my 4th or 5th time up the hill I thought to myself. "It just keeps getting awesomer! LOL....Is that even a word!?...oh well I say it is"


And that's what happens my friends....it just keeps getting AWESOMER!!!!!!!!!!!



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Another first!

So after my 4yr did his first Triathlon he said that the part that he loved the best was the biking. Earlier this spring he drove up to us on his bike and asked to take off his training wheels and zoom... the kid was off and didn't look back! I was surprised at this cause I figured that next summer he would be off the training wheels. But really it shouldn't surprise me since the kid walked on his own a week before he turned 9mths old!!!! So the kid is a mover!

He boots it around on the lane way in front of our house.....along the lane, up the curb, over someones lawn, down the curb and over the 2inch ramp that my husband built for him. All the neighbours comment on how he's zipping around so well so fast. One night as I was watching him I thought he would really like trail biking.

So I took him out to Hilton Falls. I knew it would be a good place for him since they have trails that are wide and has little rocks on them as well as some in the woods. We stuck to the wide paths as I wanted him to learn how to ride over rocks. Plus he only has a kid bike that has no gears.

The first part of the trail we both had to push our bike up the hill it was so steep, but I promised him that it was not going to be all like this.

So of course he LOVED it! I was a little nervous about him going over the bumpy parts but at the same time knew that he had to learn. At one point I said," Follow me and go on the smooth part" but as I went along I saw that there was a big rock on the path. As I yell over me shoulder to him, "Be careful there's a rock here!!" he zoomed by me on the right saying, " I know Mom I saw it and went around"...LOL!...OK, awesome!

I was really proud of this kid as there was sometimes that he wanted/needed to push his bike up a few other hills (not as big as the first one!) and he had no problem with this. I was really glad to see that he didn't get down on himself or upset that he couldn't do. He has been talking a lot about others being slow or not liking when others are faster them him. So my husband an I have really focused on the lesson that everyone does the best they can sometimes it's slower sometimes it's faster but it's always awesome!


We stopped half way along to see the falls there and have a snack. Over all we were out for an hour. I'm really excited about him getting better at the trail rides as I know he will love it. I'm looking into some BMX type clinic's or classes in the Halton area...so if anyone knows of anything please let me know! A little boys happiness lays in your hands LOL!




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