I think I'm in trouble

I just realized today that the first race of the MNSCS series is a little over 3 weeks away. Unfortunately with all the activity over the past few weeks I have found little time or energy to train. The house has "officially" SOLD. All we have to do now is find a new place to live, make sure it is in "move in" condition and move all our stuff. Hopefully I can get back into training and still have enough time to ensure that I don't get lapped by the leaders. We will be back in town this weekend looking at few more homes. Hopefully the weather will cooperate and the trails will be dry enough to bring the family out for some excitement.

April 18th - Andrea's Training Log

4:30 came mighty early this morning, but I did it I got out of bed and finished a good ride. My ride this morning was 5 - 6 minutes cruise intervals after a 20 minute warmup and then followed by 25 minutes at an endurance ride speed. The intervals all felt great and they got better as I went.
I don't know how much riding I will get in this weekend, we have a full weekend of fitting everything from our house into a 48 foot trailer.

April 17th - Andrea's Training Log and Ramblings

Well today's ride was suppose to be yesterday's ride, but instead of hitting the snooze button I turned the 1st alarm off and woke up at 5:45am instead of 4:30am, which is much too late to get my 1.5 hour ride in before my daycare kids show-up. So I took my day off early this week. My work out for yesterday consisted of non-stop packing and the only time I sat down all day was to eat.

So today, being my day off from work, I got on the trainer at 5:40am and had a 1.5 hour endurance ride. My legs felt sore and heavy for much of the ride, but the rest of the day they felt great. Then the rest of my day was again non-stop packing and I ended the day helping take down the kids play-set, this is no small play-set we are talking about.

Ours is in the foreground.

Tomorrow is my last day of doing daycare and then I will be unemployed. I don't know how I feel about that. In some ways it will be back to normal after 2 1/2 years, but in other ways I think I may get a little antsy to be doing something. I'm sure for the summer I am going to enjoy the time with my kids tremendously and just concentrate on biking and biking trips, and hopefully finding and getting ready a new home. But then in the fall when the kids go to school and Wyatt starts kindergarten, what will I do? I have a bachelor of science degree in Management Information Systems from 12 years ago that I never used except for a college job, I now fear that my degree is outdated.

April 15th - Andrea's Training Log

I figured the only way I am going to stay accountable for my workouts is to write about them daily on the blog.

I have finished all my base miles by completing the 3 base phases and now I am in week 3 of the build 1 phase. I generally like to get up early and ride, but this morning I just couldn't pull myself out of bed. As I laid there this morning I felt my legs still sore from Sunday's endurance ride and Saturday's anaerobic intervals and I stayed up way too late last night. So after we got all the kids to bed tonight I hopped on the bike about 8:30 for my ride. Tonight's ride was a P1 for those of you familiar with Friel's Mountain Bikers Training Bible, it was a short 1 hour ride which consisted of a 10 minute warm up, and 25 jumps - in sets of 5 - each 1 minute apart with 5 minutes in between. The 1st set was rough, I was not warmed up enough and my legs still felt dead from the weekend. The next 4 sets went much better and my legs felt good after the ride was over.

So, maybe we didn't buy a house!

Well the paperwork fell through and the bank considered our offer a contingent offer so they would not accept it, even though the banks real estate agent said they did accept the offer. So we are back to square one.
We are still moving out of the house in Hutchinson on April 24th and from there we will go to a rental town home until the end of the school year or until we find a house, whichever is later.
After the closing is said and done then we will start looking again. We are concentrating on the Savage/Shakopee area. We'll keep you posted.
I hate moving!! But I really want to be back in the Twin Cities.

We bought a new house!!

We just sold our house here in Hutchinson and found out today that our purchase agreement was accepted on a house in Savage. We will only be 2 1/2 miles from Murphy.

We close on the house in Hutchinson on April 24th and we close on the house in Savage on May 1st. We will be staying here in Hutchinson until the end of school year so the kids can finish out the year. That will give us a chance to go to the new house on the weekends and do some cosmetic updates. We will probably move in Memorial Day Weekend.