Domesticated!!!
May 25th, 2011 Posted in Shanna's Blog Entries |School is out!!- Yipee is all that can say and no summer school. I am sure by the time the fall rolls around then i will be ready again. I will get my degree. I am sure most eveyone is wondering what in. I want to be a dietician……. Or if i was stupid i would switch to horiculture or landscape architect (probably spelled wrong). What happened to fire fighter/ paramedic? hmmmm perhaps i figured out my life was pretty darn good after all and i did not want to sit in a station all day around some negative dude that i needed to prove myself to. To bad i figured it out after getting all the creditials but it I did learn. The truth is that i am ….or at least i think i would be….better as a dietician and wellness coach. I also enjoy it. I get asked over and over again what to eat or what to do. I have tons of certifications and would love to help the non athlete take some steps in the right direction. I already do that but want some nice letters behind my name to support it. Hopefully i dont hvae to worry about getting rich….Markus (the finance) can do that…hahaha…just kidding..not really.
Domesticated- i am totally enjoying my week. the best thing about racing is taking some time to recover. i used to not do this but after tons of really hard ultra races i have learned to savor the moments i have some time to myself. I am doing a 600k next weekend that i ahve not really trained for so might as well rest up now. I have race called Tortour (1000 km around Switzerland) and ultraman ….resting wont happen again until December after ultraman and school is out.
So i am so domesticated compared to a few years ago. I suppose it started just before gramps passed away and now that i have moved in my new house ….I am turning into some kind of foofooy woman. I actually love it! If you would have met me a year ago you would not have thought i would be doing the things i am doing now. I used to say i was married to triathlon or ultraman but now I will just marry another one instead. i like this idea better right now.
Gardening is my new passion and today all i did was work in the yard….ok a quick run, some massages but the rest was just catching up on my yard work. I was moving fast and filled up three bags of weeds from the alley and behind my house. I trimmed trees, repotted some plants, spread fertilizer, mulched, cleaned the deck, and even more then that. i must be sick cause i loved every minute of it. This is why i was mentioning the idea of horiculture as a degree…no worries that will be in my next life. In my next life i will most likely be married to a farmer so i can raise animals too. Farmer Markus …of course. If you were a fly on the wall watching me then you would have caught a show this evening. I repotted some very large plants. I should not have done this myself and was wondering what i was thinking in the middle of the project. I put the plant in the pot but needed to hold it there while putting dirt in around it. This did not go so well and everything tiped over. Later i washed the dirt from myself by accidently spraying water all over me. I put the sprayer down thinking it was off and just as i was right over it …it launched up my nose. i needed the shower. What a day..a good day in a way.
Back to training– so next week the real training will start and i am not sure if i am looking forward to it. It will be much easier now that school is over and i will have some time to train with a free mind. I will start off with a 600k over the weekend. It has been a while since i hvae done one of these. the race i am doing is called Tortour. Wonder why it is called that? The training for this is much harder then training for ultraman. It takes so much more time. the race is early August so i have 6 weeks of hard training around me…..i better find some climbs to do.
The Weekend– Still taking it easy. there was a 100 mile ride to do but my coach said to chill and he would give me an easier ride. I am planning on shopping for wedding dresses while i have the chance and finishing up some of my house projects…including finishing some painting that i started on the snow days.