I AM IN!!!!! IM FL 2013!!!

Yes, you are reading that correctly!   I am registered for the IRONMAN FLORIDA for 2013...Just an easy 140.6 miles of the Florida Panhandle to enjoy!!!!

 This morning I finished up a weekend of chores around the house..lets just say my FALL cleaning is done!

Then went off to the the gym...swam an easy 750 meters...100 m warm up, 100 m of drills, 50m x3 with 15 sec rest, then 100 m x2, with 15 sec rest then a nice cool down swim of 100 meters...

Then off to the do a little weight training.( very lite!).  I do all arms and upper back...then a nice work out Coach Tara give me with Planks, forearm and sides...

   Then try to figure out where I was going to pull the money from to pay for this race!

Figuring out bills and already made sure the air fare for the CHRISTMAS trip to be with GRAND BABIES was paid first... OK so here are the latest pictures of the grand sons~~all dressed up for Halloween...Peter Pan and Capt' Hook!

Peter Pan and his Shadow!

Captain Hook getting a helping hand

I am coming for you PETER!

Yeah Well I am too cute to care!

I figured I had just about enough left in my "emergency" monies to pay for the trip ( knowing I have a check coming in three weeks for selling vacation time!)..For those of you who do not know, I went thru a real tough financial time in 2009/10 and after that I got rid of all my credit cards..So if I do not have the cash I do not get it.....

First let me say this IRONMAN races are not inexpensive at all.  I know that I will only being doing one or two "big" races this upcoming race season...I will not be doing all the 5k and half marathons, I usually do.  Cause between the two TRI's I am registered for 2013, (Patriots HIM and IRONMAN FL) has already taken almost all my race budget for the next year....plus there will be the expense of getting to Florida and staying there for a week!!!

Ok so it is 1130 EST cause registration opens at Noon....I am all set up at the laptop, with my iPad and iPhone ready to go as well...I needed to sign into Active.com and have my USAT number ready and my debit card #....  I start to read the page and it is 12 noon CST...so know i have an hour to talk myself out of this....DO I really want to SWIM, BIKE, RUN for 140.3 miles or about 16 hours?  DO I want to spend this money?  DO I have the time to do it all? ( with work, school and life?)

Three times I signed off the Active.com registration site for the IM FL...twice I put my cards away.... but then it was 1215 and I said to myself.  STOP THE SELF DOUBT!!!!!   Start BELIEVING IN YOURSELF....You can and will do this..You are a TRIATHLETE...and in one year you will be an IRONMAN!!!!

As I have said many many times...on July 5th, 2005...I could not walk two blocks!!!!! So  CAUSE I CAN NOW, just over 7 years later, I am going to start my training to COMPETE and FINISH a FREAKING IRONMAN ~~140.6 miles of SWIM BIKE RUN!!!!!!!!

Along the Beautiful Gulf of Mexico in Sunny Florida!!!

SO IT IS TIME FOR YOU TO GET UP & MOVING ~~  CAUSE YOU CAN!!!!!!!