6 Months Ago Today

Gloucester Tri Interview

Spring Fever

It's been an incredibly seasonable and even mild spring here in New England and Janda and I have been trying to enjoy it when not busy with work, etc... Our new past time this spring is kayaking. We have a deeded beach access down on the river, so we carry our kayaks down and check out Gloucester from the river-view.

Launching from our little beach

Paddling by the Annisquam lighthouse

Having fun going down the coast

Out past Wingaersheek

The green house above Janda's head belongs to our friends Julie and Beth. Janda wanted to taunt them with our kayaks!

The end of February

Wow, two months have passed and nothing notable enough to post! I guess it's been a busy/boring two months. We have done a few fun things, such as see Avatar and baby-sit Emma, but for the most part it's been winter doldrums and work work work (mostly for Janda!) We've also gotten a few things done around the house and just have a few things left for now. Almost time for our one-year in the house anniversary!

Prepping for the rug.

Uncle Janda teaching Emma about chapstick.

Looks like she likes it.

A rare moment when she isn't on the move.

A New Year

Yesterday we had some snow here, so after the snow stopped falling Janda and I went for a short walk to see our neighborhood in the snow. It was also an astronomically low tide, so we went and checked out the river too.

Then for New Year's Eve we had a really good dinner with our next door neighbor's and headed to bed around midnight.

Today we went into Salem for a road race that I ran and Janda watched. It was my first road race in ages and it went pretty well: 4 miles in 29:52. It wasn't quite what I hoped, but I was less than 15 seconds per mile off of my goal and had a little too much left at the end for my awesome finishing sprint- if there was an award for fastest last 100 I totally would have won. Still plenty of time to get into shape for the spring road races luckily!

Before the race

Just before the finishing sprint

Tonight we celebrated a New Year with my favorite meal: tacos. All in all a very good opening of the year.

On the move!

Christmas Decorations

We have done a lot of work finishing up loose ends at the house (almost time for before and after photos!) and after we did that we decorated with lots of lights!

The tree in the sunroom

The fireplace

Our wedding Willow Tree

This Week in Training

Monday:
4 miles

Tuesday:
5 miles
2x10 minutes tempo

Wednesday:
4 miles

Thursday:
1 mile warmup
4x400, 4x200
88, 89, 87, 88; 40, 41, 40, 38
800m cooldown

Friday:
5 miles

Saturday and Sunday:
Off