Steve had another PR at the Quincy Half Marathon two weeks ago with a 1:30! Wow! He's been working really hard all winter and it's been paying off! His next race will be at the Wrentha Duathlon in two weeks, which will be the official kick off to the multi-sport season for both of us. I think we are both excited to get outside on the bikes! The trainers are begging us to put them away, as well as our butts (yes, our butts, there, I said it).
Speaking of rubber hitting the road, I was able to get outside for a quick 45 minute recovery ride when we had a couple of weeks of SUPERB weather here in NH. 70's and 80's. Sadly, it was only that one ride though, after that, the weekday rides went back to interval training, some tabata's, speed work, BST's, weeee! So, on the weekends for long rides, mother nature, decided to go back into the 30's and 40's, and well, why be freezing outside when we could be on the trainer (as painful as it is), much more comforable (that's a complete oxymoron of a statement, comfortable and trainer do NOT belong together), watching TV, with March Madness, movies, etc.
March Madness, ahhhh, the most exciting 3 weeks of basketball all year. This of course includes the NBA playoffs, because if you're a basketball fan, then you know how much of a joke the NBA tends to be. That's a different topic that could go on and on though. So, for March Madness, if you are able to participate in a bracket pool, and if it's not the one I participate in, then you're truly missing out (thank you, Erin Rosati for getting me into this 4 years ago)! One of her coworkers has this insane pool, this year with over 800 entries and only $10 a bracket. No limit on how many you can fill out. He makes it a ton of fun with money going to the top winners of course, but also random prizes for coming in last, coming in the same position that comes in right before some dude who I don't know. This year he also will be giving money to the person whose position is equivilant to the money earnings of one of the movies that came out, so if the movie made 157 million, if you came in 157th place, you're $50 richer! If you're with every other person in the nation, then your bracket got completely busted after the first weekend with Duke losing, then again when UNC decided to blow the game. My only hope was last night for OSU to win, because I like Aaron Kraft and I think he loves the game of basketball and is a true team player. Buuut, they lost. So, let's go Kentucky (I had them losing in the elite 8, but what the hell, right?!).
I and no one I know won Mega Millions, I woke up all sad on Saturday morning. Sigh.
There were two 70.3 races this weekend, Oceanside and Texas. Texas had a ton of QT2 athletes, all from what we saw online performed really well! Amber Ferreira, local pro, finished in a solid 9th place for the first race of the season!
It's officially my birthday and a race week all wrapped up in one! I'm bursting with excitement!
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