post-ironman projects, aka life

life post-IMLou DNF has been humming along.

i have been working on one small project these days, which has meant i've made slight adjustments to my training routine:

• no more cycling (outdoors, that is)
• no snowboarding with the hubs (i probably shouldn't do this anymore EVER, since i'm almost guaranteed to get some sort of long bone fracture)
• less swimming (it's really hard to swim without a gym and a pool and all the ponds have frozen over, i've found)
• more jogging, less running
• no zone workouts, lactate threshold tests, or VO2-maxin'

the aforementioned small project also has me eating a bit differently--less caffeine, no sushi -->insert uncontrollable sobbing here<--, no deliciously squishy cheese, no deli meats, less wine. 

i'm not on a cleanse; i'm not dieting; i'm not giving up contact sports or the best of exercise.

instead, i am making another person. INSIDE OF ME. it's baby time round two, folks!

the hubs and i quit birth control the day after IMLou, since we knew thought we wanted another kidlet running around. now with a kid officially in the terrible two's, i'm beginning to wonder what on earth got into us. we wanted another one of these?! i digress. last time i went off BC it took a good year for my cycle to get itself right. well, not this go 'round. this bad boy showed up exactly 3.5 weeks after IMLou:

the midwife tells me i probably got pregnant 2-3 days post-IM. ha! 

i spent the majority of September and October feeling like i was about to vomit. things perked up in November when we went on an extended vacation that looked something like this:

BOS-->SFO (CTO work conference) 4 days

SFO-->Kauai (vacation and baby brudder's wedding) 10 days

Kauai-->AUS (family visit and bestest friend's wedding shower) 3 days

AUS-->BOS (home again home again jiggity jig)

of course i went back to work the next day. can't recommend that. 

December meant family time in Dallas for the holidays, and January has meant getting back into the regular exercise routine, with less treats. not NO treats, of course, just less ;)

i'm due early June with the kiddo, and no, we won't find out what kind of kiddo it is until we meet him or her. if you'd like to pass on name suggestions, please feel free, as everyone else seems to, up to and including the cashier at Stop-n-Shop, the gas station attendant, and kids at E's daycare... 

for those very VERY few of you who followed me for training/camaraderie purposes, please feel free to delete/unfollow/etc now that this has officially become a training blog involving a baby. i'll continue to post about workouts, and other things health related, the posts will be at least somewhat baby related--and often completely about baby--until the kid is actually on the outside. eventually i'll be un-pregnant again and training for a comeback race (taking suggestions here too: marathon? Chicago? Houston? triathlon? IM is a few years away yet) i can't seem to decide on one. or, coincidentally, how to end this post! so.... 

happy training, y'all!