**Susie**

[kams]

Susie

I feel like I haven't seen you around as much, and I am so anxious about your HIM! How's your training going? Getting ready to taper? I want all the details you'd like to share, & any advice!!

[Susie]

I've been MIA because I've been on vacation   I am not a good soon to be half ironwoman!  I spent 10 days in Ireland, and just got back home on Monday.  It was a fun trip :beer:, but the timing was not ideal.  For a vacation, I think I did pretty well with H&F - I ran 5 times in 10 days, including a 5 mile race PR (by over a minute!) in Dublin - but last night I got on my bike for the first time in about 2 weeks, and tonight that will be the case in the pool.  Yikes.

I got up to 13+ miles and 60 mile long rides before I left, so I can handle the distance.  Some of the speedwork at the end of my training plan has suffered from my schedule a bit.  I just need to get my head back in the game, which I am struggling with right now more than I expected to.  I am a creature of routine and habit, and do my best training when I can get into a groove and do the same things every M, T, W, etc.  Any month wherein I rack up almost 10k frequent flier miles isn't going to be that month, unfortunately.

Before I left, TBH, I was getting kind of burned out on training, so maybe the break was good.  I've struggled balancing the high mileage weeks with work, travel (both business and vacay), and life more than I expected to.  The weekends with a 55 mile ride, a swim workout, and a 12-13 mi run, leave me with nothing left for much else!  My house is a mess, and I haven't started Puppy D in obedience class.  I'm sort of looking forward to having the HIM successfully behind me to restore a little balance!  I think it'll be Oly's, max, for the rest of the summer.

But in the meantime, I keep reminding myself that I have WAY more training in than last year when I did a half iron aquabike, so I can totally do this (right?  right?!).

[kams]

I keep forgetting about everyone's vacations! I think I just block them out because I'm jealous .

So glad you had fun! And, since you were feeling a bit burned I think it may have been a good thing. I am the same way about getting in the best training when I'm in the groove.

It sounds to me like your volume is plenty. I think it's totally normal to be nervous about being prepared, as it's such a monumental effort. I, for one, have not had a single day where I think to myself, "I'm going to kill it!" So, I guess I can kind of commiserate, though I'm not as far as you.

Ill be glad to see you have a great race and then be back to normalcy . I'm really obsessive lately, so if you ever want to spill every little detail I will gladly listen (read!)!