Recovery mode

Nothing much to report today. I'm still taking it kind of SLO-O-O-OWWW after Eagleman. My muscles have stopped hurting, and my sunburn too (yes, I applied tons of sunblock pre-race but my wetsuit scrubbed it off). I'm getting back into that typical lazy slow pace of life in summer. Taking walks to the park with the girls. Cooking steaks on the grill. Weeding the garden.

I need to get back to watching my food intake carefully. I can't seem to do heavy-duty training and reduce my food intake at the same time - something has to give! But now it's back to get-serious-about-diet time.

Last night we went for dinner at our local Miles River Yacht Club, like we do most Friday nights. Mmm, coconut shrimp and crab cakes! (Yeah, that was BEFORE that get-serious-about-diet time started). It was unseasonably cool and we sat outside on the deck enjoying our dinner with the girls, listening to the sounds of evening (including the revelry in the dockside bar) and watching the boats come in and dock.

Afterwards we went for a drive out on the Bay Hundred peninsula. We saw a couple of unusual sights out in the remote Chesapeake Bay countryside - a male deer that walked right up to the minivan (after I stopped) with big knobby antlers covered with velvet, with his mate in the bushes nearby; and a mother turkey hen with about four turkey chicks trailing behind. One of those times you wish for a camera!

Today my husband is going over to the airport to regain his flying currency which had lapsed since the babies were born (it's HIS turn to pursue some of his hobbies this week) and later in the weekend we will go over to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum a few blocks away to visit the Antique and Classic Boat Festival.

I think my exercise today will just be another long stroller walk with the girls! Or maybe we'll head to the pool when my husband gets home from flying late in the afternoon when the sun is low.

The next event that I'm registered for is the Blackwater Traverse Duathlon, 43 days from now: 5K run, 30K bike, 5K run. I consider it a "just for fun" event since a few of my friends will be doing it with me. I'll have to get Buttercup back out and on the roads again ... some day after my recovery is complete. ;-)