julie's serious triathletes ready to train.....
....maybe not so serious then..! whose feet are those??!Since i got back from Austria i swear my feet (not the ones in the pic!) have not touched the ground! It's been a full on whirl of manic days! Last week was particularly challenging - some crabs in a bucket to deal with (which in its own turn-on-its-head way (see- everything relates to the feet in the pic ;-D)! is a good sign). I suppose! Sometimes, though, rising above it all takes way too much unnecessary energy that could be better spent elsewhere!!
Every (late) night i got home last week there was a row of boys (my villa mates) in the lounge at the infamous Villa 79 avidly watching animal planet which was fascinating (animal planet not the boys - well actually they were when they reeled off the whole cast and goings on of the 'days of our lives' meerkat series - i was quite impressed with the seriousness with which they relayed that information!) There was a bit i saw about a kingfisher who fed off these amazing fish who had the fastest reaction time of any creature on the planet - of course the kingfisher kept missing his potential dinner. I didn't get why the bird didn't go for something slower he could actually eat and wonder how the species survives...there has to be a life lesson in there somewhere!!
How did i get from training/racing to animal planet??!
Yesterday felt like the first day off i've had in a while, and that 'day off' involved getting up at the witching hour to go cycling. Seriously i feel quite refreshed after that 'day off' though :-). Only a week to go until the Liverpool Olympic, hope everything holds together this week in the lead up. i get a bit paranoid the week before a race as i usually do something stupid like fall off my bike/down a hole (real or imaginary)/off the stage during a superman haha, no really!! So i need to be bubblewrapped but it's getting a bit toasty for that! Today tweaked something in my back during bodypump now that's one i haven't done before! The back track was a killer and not just cos of the weight on the bar which i couldn't do anything about being the instructor. darn it! will be ok tomorrow i'm sure! Another busy week kicks off tomorrow, after today not being so bad (in my mad world anyway ;-O). Big party going on in my garden full of diving people...ahhh it's always drinks again at villa 79...i'm off to bed!
