Still Here

I've been absent from posting for a while. I've generally been resting on the laurels of Amy posting every day with her pictures and comments. Despite my absence though, I do have a few things to report, none being anything major.

First, I spent all of last week in Orlando where it was beautiful and sunny! But before you get too excited, I got to enjoy it for a grand total of 50 minutes of running at 6 am on Tuesday. I was down for the largest HVAC trade show in North America, where I was displaying the product that I manage. Between arriving a couple days early to set up our booth, doing breakfast, lunch, dinner and miscellaneous meetings, drinks with customers at the end of the day and then pulling the booth apart and getting it shipped back at the end of the week, I was pretty drained by the time I got back on a plane Friday morning to come home. Friday night saw me sleep for 13 hours and then lie in bed for another one listening to the Vinyl Cafe Saturday morning before finally being coaxed onto the bike for some trainer time.

I'm very glad to be back at the trianing though, even if it has only been a couple of days. With basically a whole week off, and all of the dietary disruption of the week, I just wasn't feeling myself. Yesterday brought time trials at the pool with the club and nice run with everyone afterward. The TT's started off well with me nailing my 100 m piece (1:21!!), but I think the length of my week caught up to me when I fell apart about 200 meters into my 800 m trial. At least I buried the bar deep for me to see improvement next time!

I guess the next excitement will come in a couple of weeks now. The countdown is just 11 days to the Opening Ceremonies and I'm pretty excited. My bike route to work has been shifted all over the map so that I can't get anywhere near the village or any other venues and traffic is starting to become a nightmare. Even the airport, two weeks in advance, was a zoo when I came in Friday evening. We've tickets to a few concerts and shows during the games and I'm pumped to just soak in the atmosphere with the whole world riding into town. And even more exciting, we finally had a friend say she's coming out and wants to stay with us (I totally thought we'd have friends from elsewhere lining up for our couch, but alas, no one asked until last week). It's going to be so much fun!!