What the Brick am I Doing?

Well, I've had this blogpage, courtesy of my teammate Joel who possesses more than my Neanderthal computer skills, for over a month now. Finally, I have a day with my family gone, and thus some time, to figure out how to use it, and update my friends and donors on my progress with Team in Training. This morning we had our fourth "brick" workout at Sauvie's Island. We biked 24.5 miles, which is essentially the distance of our triathlon in September, followed immediately by a 4 mile run. Now if you remember from my original letter, I had a hard time running even 1 mile, and could barely bike up a hill at the beginning of all this in May. So clearly some progress has been made!! As a matter of fact, I felt pretty good!! Especially at the end when the pain was over and my whole team was there to cheer me in to the finish line and bang that blasted cowbell.....this is one of the advantages of being relatively slow - there are more teammates to cheer for me!

The other big juicy piece of news is that our Triathlon Outfits AND our wetsuits are in, and we got to try them on today. I bet we looked a sight in the 85 degree heat stuffing ourselves into these heavy black wetsuits in the parking lot by the bridge on Sauvie's. It even fit, and what I have discovered is that even though the wetsuits do not hide any of the curves, you definitely CANNOT see the cellulite underneath!! Forget those products advertised on Yahoo! Just go out and get a wetsuit, and the cellulite is gone in as long as it takes to get yourself into it! So soon, as promised, you will get your photo. Yes, even those who donated less than $50 (that was a trick, sorry, to try to get more money out of you...but hey, it's all for a good cause!)

I'll try to keep you posted better, in case anyone is interested in reading this in the future, and if not, then I'll just have fun journaling and imagining all my fans checking in on me in my little bubble of endorphin-fueled bliss.

Hasta pronto,
Suzy