The pain...the pain...

Somehow, that's all I can think of today.

Yesterday, I swam TWICE for swim camp (can't give up now...just a half week left!), and ran 6 HILLY miles. We did it all as a group, so I actually had a blast...and was pretty damn proud of myself when I finished the 6000(!) yards in the pool at 10 at night. But, my goodness...today I'm pretty freaking sore. I had to swim again today, and let me just say that I have never before been so close to crying in the pool. My shoulders feel like there is a knife going through them when I move, so you can only imagine the whole swimming thing...but, I managed my 3700 for today. The only way I got through it was to keep telling myself I wasn't going to finish the whole thing, and that the set I was doing was the last one...and then just making myself do 'one more'...it worked, even though it's a kind of pathetic way to get through a work out.

Tomorrow, 2 more swims, and then the intense part of swim camp is over...'one a days' feel like nothing now. Pretty crazy, eh?

In non-triathlon related news...I'm going to play for Haddonfield, afterall. Thanks for telling me I had to...

I managed to work out all the conflicts, unbelievably. I'm going to fly right from the Mardi Gras Half to Philadelphia for the week, so I won't be fooling around with coming back to Cleveland for a night or anything silly like that.

I can't do the fundraiser on February 6, unfortunately (or, fortunately for my belly, I guess...). I'm hoping that it'll just have to be postponed. I'm thinking about doing it after the cycling workshop in March. Things will have calmed down for me by then, so I feel like it's a good idea to wait that long, even though I wanted to do it while the excitement was still there. If for no other reason, then I need to wait to save myself from going crazy trying to fit everything in. I'm still thinking about the best way to go about it; how to advertise, etc.

Instead of staying the Northeast through all of my auditions, I'm going to come back here and teach for a few days each week, and then fly back to the Northeast for Thursday-Saturday. It's a little crazy, but it saves me A LOT of driving, and the tickets I found were cheap enough, so I'm going to be making more money this way than just driving everywhere all month and not getting to teach. It's insane that flying is cheaper than driving, now that the gas prices are so high...

So, it's not going to be an 'easy' month, but I'll survive. Everything worked out just fine. I'll just run when I'm on the road and save the biking and swimming for the days I'm in Cleveland. It'll be good for me to get a few more runs in every week. I've got the swimming down, so I'll just make sure to hit the bike hard core in March.

It'll be fun to get to play in a new orchestra...any orchestra, for that matter...

ANYWAY...
I'm heading out to the bookstore with Ta soon. I haven't seen her since before winter break (even though we live next door from each other!)...it'll be fun to catch up and hear how her trip to France was...jealous, anyone? I am!

Okay, signing off here. I just don't feel interesting. I'm tired, I think. Hmmm...wonder how that could have happened? ...