Never In a Hurry

I'm always in a hurry, always busy, always planning. We had an event on Sunday so I decided to slow down and take my time on Saturday. I spent almost all day working but at a slow pace and without pressuring myself. I took about 60 photos of tribabe.com items and prepared inventory for the Beaver Fever on Sunday. Saturday I spent most of the day in the living room working and alternated between watching the Dallas Cowboys cheerleader reality show and football. I actually learned something from the cheerleader show, the first thing: those ladies are very focused on being a cheerleader. They aren't joking around. Most of them said it was a goal since they were a child. I think where some of them fall short is they set their goal to be a cheerleader but they don't think beyond that. Example, they have them run 2 miles for fitness and one of the girl's was upset because she's used to running 1 mile. Given that this woman had probably made so many sacrifices to get where she was why would she let 1 extra mile of running get in the way of her goal? Why not aim for 3 miles of running or even 6 miles of running? She probably hasn't eat bread in 6 years and I know she got up at the crack of dawn to primp herself to workout, why not throw down the hammer and leave the other chicks in the dust!

I guess there's a reason why I'm not trying to be a DC cheerleader (other than my bra size!) Seriously though, if you're going to set goals, set some of them beyond what you think you are capable of and see how you do. Tribabe.com challenges me and I have to be careful to not let that get in the way of focusing on my husband or my day job. There is such a thing as being too challenged and I like to walk that razor's edge for too long sometimes. I need to slow it down a bit.

After working most of the day on Saturday I talked Bill into another walk/run, we went out in the rain for close to an hour. We're doing good though, we warm up by walking 10 minutes, then run 1 minute and walk 4 minutes, repeat 1 & 4 a few times and then do 2 minutes running with 3 minutes walking and then 3 minutes running and 2 minutes walking. It feels good to run for the short bouts. Hopefully Bill's ankle will get strong and I will get back into shape in the next few weeks and we'll be doing 10 minutes of running and 2 minutes walking. But we won't rush into that. We're not in a hurry here, just taking it slow. Yeah right... After our workout I hit the wall and passed out on the couch. We had to get up at 5am on Sunday to go the the race and Bill was whining about getting up early so I tried to inspire him by telling him that if he wanted to be a DC cheerleader then he was going to have to get up early and plan his outfit. I don't think he was inspired by my speech.

We had a great time at the race, you should do this race if you bike and run, it's well done and lots of fun! Plus you can say you did the Beaver Fever duathlon, that's pretty cool.