Exercise update: I just got back from an hour out on my bike. I know I'm redundant, but if there is a last refuge where I feel the tiniest bit athletic, it is on my bicycle. I rode just under 16 miles in that hour, which is recreational for serious bikers, but serious for recreational bikers...
After a week of feeling uneven in my exercise, this was a workout that gave me some energy and made me gain optimism about the triathlon that is 5 short weeks from today. I know I can run 3 slow miles and I can ride 16, I'm pretty close to being able to swim the quarter mile, but I'm not ready to do them all in a row:) I guess that's what the next 4 weeks training are for.
Tomorrow will be a challenge as I need to find pool time, which is a little tough when my wife is working. I can take my kids to the pool, but getting 30 minutes for laps can be difficult because they need my attention. I guess there are worse problems than your kids needing you.
Nutrition update: We had my little cousin Kaaden over today (really little, she's 7), so we took her out for lunch as part of the day's festivities. I went with the burger and fries by instinct. My bike ride gave me caloric room, but I am disappointed in my instincts nutritionally. I love to eat at restaurants, but my inclinations there need to get better. Somehow in my mind, a french fry at Buzzard Billy's Flying Carp Cafe is better for me than a fry at McDonald's. Obviously that isn't quite true.
Other than the lunch, I've done well so far today and have about 700 calories headed into the evening. I must say that overall, my diet has been slipping for the last couple weeks. I continue to identify it as an area of concern and certainly one of these Tuesdays, it will bite me in the ass.
One highlight today was the fact that my kids desperately wanted to go to that particular restaurant to have their cousin (2nd cousin really) eat alligator. She was very brave and helped us split a plate of gator fingers 4 ways. The verdict...tastes like chicken.
Random musings: As mentioned above, my uncle dropped my cousin off for a play date with my kids today while he was in town registering his oldest son for college. It was fun to spend a whole day with a kid I would rarely get to see in a small group. She appeared to have lots of fun and my kids like her a lot too. Of course, it wasn't a normal day, we went to the park, out for lunch and to the children's museum. She may be disappointed if she comes back that we aren't usually that exciting.
As I get older, family means more and more (I don't think that's uncommon), so I'm pretty excited to have Payten (my uncle's oldest) coming to school in La Crosse. Not that we will see him a ton, but it is a chance to make a different kind of connection and get to know him on a new level. It also will bring little Kaaden to town more often and it's neat to see my kids connected to their relatives. They are much closer to their cousins than I ever was. That seems to matter, because your family often seems to become your primary friends over time, at least in my experience.
On my best days, I'm really proud of the stable existence we've carved out for our kids so far and of course on my worst, I imagine they will think we were the most boring parents that ever lived...
p.s. I didn't catalog promises made and kept today, I have more time tomorrow and might try then.
Happy Saturday.
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