One Week Left!

So it's hard to believe but one week from today at this time, we will be all done with the triathlon. We've been training since July 9, and we've come a long way! Today, after we both had very long tiring weekend (I was in Athens for the GA/Bama game - I know, a TOUGH loss!, and Crystal was in Auburn for the Auburn/Tennessee game - another hard loss!) we set out in the afternoon for our last day of bricks. By the way, I found out where the technical term "brick" came from. It's because they say your your body feels like a ton of bricks when you're done! Glad I'm not the only one...

Anyway, I got in a minor tiff with my bike trying to get it down the stairs of my apartment and then we had some issues getting the bike rack on Crystal's car, but once we were done, we headed up to alpharetta and got started. We were both exhausted from our weekends but pushed through like champs. We rode the entire 14 mile bike length and then ran for a little while, and some exciting things happened along the way.

We found out not too long ago that no headphones (which in turn means no ipod) are allowed on race day. That is pretty much what gets us through our runs sometimes so we were quite bummed about that. But while we were biking we played a little game where you name a celebrity (we also played with characters - everything from miss piggy to george castanza) and then the next person has to name someone whose first name starts with the first letter of the previous person's last name. This, I think, is how we are going to occupy ourselves during our run during race day. Like Juli had suggested in one of her previous comments, games like these are great to do while running because they don't require a lot of talking but they're a great way to keep your mind occupied and distracted from thinking about how long we've been running.

Then, after 14 miles, we hopped off our bikes and hit the pavement to run. I had my ipod on shuffle, and I started the run off belting out "Roxanne". Crystal did what she could to drown me out using her ipod but no success because I was on a karaoke roll. I'm sure the other people at the greenway were thrilled to hear me singing. And then the coolest thing - we spotted two deer just a little off the path in the woods. They were eating off the trees, and weren't even phased by us. We think it was a mom and her baby becasue the second one was tiny and was following the bigger one around. It was SO cool - we wished we had our camera! They just kept looking at us and going along their merry way. VERY cool.

Then we had our usual Sunday night dinner with my family at my parent's house and then they took us out to Brusters for a little treat :). While we were there, there was this shopping cart (there is a Kroger in that shopping center too) that had a plastic outside to make it look like a race car and it was left in a parking space like someone actually planned to do that so we took a picture there. The pics are on Crystal's camera so we'll be posting those later.

Anyway - hard to believe we only have one week left! We're planning on taking it kind of easy this week so we are nice and rested for the race, but we'll keep you loyal readers up to date!

XOXO,
Gossip Girl.

(that's for all of you out there that watch the show, since it's on tomorrow night!)