In September I did the sprint triathlon. It was awesome. I had a blast, and I think I'm a little addicted to it now. I guess there are worse addictions than fitness out there. So I will be doing the sprint tri again next September, and my goal is to do a half-ironman either in 2015 or 2016. That thought is simultaneously terrifying and exhilarating. For anyone who doesn't know, a sprint triathlon is roughly a 500-750m swim, a 12.5 mile bike ride, and a 5K run. A half-ironman, on the other hand, is a 1.2 mile swim, a 56 mile bike ride, and a 13.1 mile run (a half marathon). O.O......... I must be crazy. Really, really crazy. But that just sounds AWESOME to me. The sweat, the burn, the thoughts of "I can't do this, but I will!". It sounds like a blast. The other bonus is that if I can really get into triathlons, they are a great excuse to travel. There are triathlons all over the world. Um, yes please! International relations, here I come! :P Training for this first half will be painful, and trying, but once I do the first one, it's really more a matter of maintaining, not as much striving to achieve that level of fitness.
Christmas was whirlwind of family, friends, travel, and, well, Christmas day itself. But the week flew by and I ended up back here in Pullman to settle back into routine. It's weird when you feel like you need a vacation from your vacation, but by the end I was ready for normal. Normal workouts, normal food, normal hours (my fam kept me up until midnight or 1 o'clock every night...I turn into a pumpkin at 9 usually, so that was...interesting). The new year came in as it usually does, bringing new hopes and fears for the new year. I will be moving in with a dear friend come May, so that will be exciting. And it gives me a good excuse to purge my stuff. Mwahahaha.... I love purging. It's so refreshing to get rid of things! And then all my stuff fits better, which in turn makes it easier to organize, which in turn makes it easier to keep everything clean.
I don't have much of a "bucket list" for my life. There are certain things, life doing an Ironman and sky diving that I'm not sure how soon I'll have the chance to do those, but they are always on my radar. Other things I just take a year at a time. For example, this year I want to try snowshoeing, snowboarding, and kayaking. I will make life an exciting adventure if it's the last thing that I do!
I never followed up with what's going on with my wrist. I had one MRI, with dye injected into my wrist specifically to confirm or rule out a tear, which didn't show anything. So I was referred up to a specialist in Spokane, Dr. Horn. He ordered a second MRI, this time without dye. This one showed that I actually have a ganglion cyst hanging out in that particular part of my wrist. People get ganglion cysts all the time, especially in joints. I have one in the underside of that same wrist that I wouldn't have even known was there except for the MRI. But that one doesn't hurt. They usually don't. But this one does. My options are surgery or waiting it. It could go away randomly at any time, today or twelve years from now. No one knows. There isn't a rhyme or reason to when they go away by themselves. Now, I am not a particularly patient person, but surgery is still not something to jump into. So, with Dr. Horn's permission, I'm weight lifting again, using my wrist as much as I can stand, and trying to walk a fine line between abusing and simply using my wrist. I'm not always very successful. And my boss is being wonderful and working on it here and there - massagin, twisting, bending, stretching. I think all this might be helping, but we will see. I want this stupid thing gone, so if it doesn't shape up in the next few months, well...I'll go from there. But for now, it isn't hindering any activities anymore, so I can live with it.
I need to go running now. And I don't have much else to update you on. So I will leave you with this picture of Italy, to make you crave going there as much as I do. You're welcome :)
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