Swimming

How is training going? God, will I ever be not sick?

I have had another cold for the last 3 days, snotty nose, stuffy head, coughing, sore throat. I'm so sick of being sick. Its thrown me for a loop in training. Couldn't swim with that much snot  in my head. Still can't run, too dizzy to ride bikes.

But this morning I went to the Y and for whatever reason they didn't have a spin class at 7:15 so I went and swam. I got in 2000 yards in 56 minutes, my fastest time ever. But at the end of it I was seriously sick to my stomach. My head hurt from wearing the goggles and I needed to eat. But I got it done.

A run

How is training going? Fine.

I got in a 1 mile run this morning. That's it, just 1 mile. But it felt good and I didn't die, my toe didn't hurt and I got home in good shape.

Yesterday a State Patrolman was killer about 10 miles from my home and the cop killer lived just 1/3 mile from my home. I came home from the gym with sheriffs, staters, SWAT, etc all over the road. One of the SWAT guys had a big black SUV and was wielding a big ass rifle. The killer shot himself in the head and later died in the hospital, saving our state millions of dollars on a trial.

But yesterday before all the excitement I got another 30 miles in spin class, after Boot Camp and before Torreys strength portion of her class. I felt good too.  Too bad I had to take Brandan to the doctor and go to social security or I'd have gotten out on my real bike for a nice hilly ride before work.

Its supposed to rain and snow for the next few days and I'm scheduled to work. Late Saturday night, early Sunday morning. Its absolutely going to suck. I'll be cold and wet and NOT HAPPY.  Its going to really mess up my training.

Swimming

How is training going? In the pool.

Lan got me to go to the pool last night, I swam 24 laps in 44 minutes. Not fast but good enough at this point. When I can get back into open water I'll swim more. Or so I tell myself.

I am concentrating on just getting into the water at this point. I am much more efficient than I had been, I am stretching out, twisting, gliding, breathing faster. My speed has increased a little bit, not a lot. Everyone I know is still way faster than me. I have no idea what the hell I'm doing wrong that makes me stay slow. Even with a pool buoy I'm slow.

Pretty damn scarey

How is training going? Um, training?

My son had a heart attack.

As this photo was taken, he was having a small heart attack.

Hes been diabetic for 23 yeas, hes 32 now. Early last week he forgot to take his meds for 2 days, causing him to have 4 seizures in 1 day. Which made him forget to take his insulin, which hes never forgotten to take before. Then he got the flu, so he was puking & couldn't eat.

I had to work that night but caught the 11:40 boat home (Thanks Captain John!) and within 10 minutes of being home we were on our way to the hospital, arriving at 1:17am on Saturday.

There they checked his blood sugar & it was 949, which is the highest its ever been, ever. his blood pressure was low, 75/35. He has a little pain in his shoulder. The doctor did an EKG and found his cardio all over the place, not good at all.

So they gave him 8 liters of fluids within the first hour, an insulin drip and gave him some morphine. He was taken to Critical Care and at 6am Lan and I headed home for some sleep.

Lan and I were really scared. Brandan didn't know much about where he was or anything, he didn't have any idea what had happened and on his 1st day there he had a temper tantrum. But I figured out that they had given him morphine for pain and he was high. He thought they had an IV that was draining his blood.
Now hes telling me that they DID have an IV hooked up wrong and it WAS draining his blood. I'm sure the hospital is NOT going to tell me the same thing.

Over the next 5 days he steadily improved. We brought him home Thursday evening and hes doing great now.

But on Thursday, as we were leaving to go get him, I opened a letter from the state and they informed us that Brandan is better and he can get a job and will no longer be receiving state assistance for his disability. Great. I'm pretty sure that hospital visit isn't going to be cheap, neither are any of his new meds.

But hes alive and that's the important thing.

So I haven't gotten a lot of exercise this last week, add that to the previous week and Im so out of shape its silly. And I'm going to do an Ironman in 4 months? LOL!

If things would just go right

How is training going? In bursts.

I haven't done much this week and I haven't run for way too long. I missed Torreys class and boot camp this morning.

Work has me scheduled 6 days per week and I can see this for the next 2 weeks, then it will drop off. Too bad all I'm getting are 4 hour shifts.

Brandan has been sick and forgot to take his medication for 2 days so last night after I got home at 2am and fell asleep at 3, he woke up with low blood sugar at 4am, went rambling through the house knocking into stuff, bashed into the fridge sending magnets and stuff flying. I came out of my room and scared the shit out of him, making him fall onto his back kicking and screaming. Got him sitting up & hand fed him till he was able to feed himself, made him a sandwich. he went back to bed & had 2 seizures within the next 3 hours, 2 more later in the morning.

Don't get me wrong, I love him and feel so bad that hes been dealt such a sucky hand in life. But he needs to take some interest in his own care since I can't always be here.

How am I supposed to get any exercise when my sleep is so messed up? My entire day has been wasted and I feel like crap.

Not much time left to get ready

This is how many days are left to get ready. I hope I can do it!

I'm scared, excited, tired, hungry, scared.

Work gets in the way

How is training going? I feel so alone.

I went to Gig Harbor YMCA on Tuesday, yesterday, and did a 3 hour workout. Boot camp 5:30-6:30am, part of a spin class until 7:00, then spinned until Torrey got there for our regular spin/strength class. I was wore out by the time I got into the locker room to go home and there's Linda.

I had completely forgotten that she was going to go there to work out with me but I was just too tired. I feel bad that I abandoned her but I needed to go home for a nap before work.

Abby and I have been trying to go to Boot Camp every Tuesday and Thursday & as long as I'm there I might as well stay for Torreys class and since there is 45 minutes of useful time, I might as well be working out. Tomorrow I'm going to see if I can get onto the Jacobs Ladder and see how long I can do that. Or run, I haven't run in tooooo long.

A guy at work was fired so I've been working a lot of 4 hour shifts but it takes another 3 hours to commute so I'm running out of time most days. I can't make it to masters swim at Bremerton in time and its still way to dark to ride or run outside.

Wifi has been feeling better and today I put her and Sunshower out in the arena all day. They can go again tomorrow for a while, then Joey and Handy for the rest of the day. The new horse, Roxy, has a crappy owner who hasn't been out to clean the stall or run since at least Sunday and she hasn't turned her out either. Poor horse, to be 'saved' from one horrible owner just to land with a fucking idiot.

I'm going to start a FaceBook page/group for local barn owners/managers so we can not only share info on good hay and or clinics, but to warn each other about potential bad boarders, or their horses.