Working to find my badass self

Well races last year were a bit of a bust.  I signed up to do Drake Half Marathon in April and has a slew of health issues all winter and spring in 2019.  Then did the Hope Run with the boy and got second in my age group (getting old so that helps). Missed the MS bike ride in Minneapolis because it was 40 degrees and raining so no thanks. I signed up for the Ames Triathlon a couple days in advance and it was a great race.  Then didn't race Midnight Madness due to lack of children and a leg injury that cropped up on the group run that morning.  I had to dial way back on running after that and was worried going in to the Boulder Half Ironman but my leg didn't malfunction until the last mile of the run and by then I was in a grove to finish.  After that I missed Bluff Creek because I hadn't had any down time with my kids most of the summer weekends and we just hung out and watched movies and spent time together instead.  And that pretty much wrapped up my lack luster season of missing half the races I signed up for which was a bummer as money is tight.

So this season here is my super tentative plan.  I am tentatively shaping up my season to look like this: 

• Drake half marathon (April 19th)
• MS Bike Ride?? (May 16th)
• Clear Lake sprint triathlon (May 30), 
• Hope run (early June)
• Grandmas marathon - eek first one (June 20),
• Ames tri (June 28 but may do the aquabike depends on my legs), 
• Midnight Madness
• Maybe bluff creek oly (aug 16), 
• Hiking trip (Early August)
• Square Lake half (sept 12) going back to a course I did five years ago to keep the long distance training going as I have my sights set on doing an Ironman once my health is stable.
• Hillbilly half marathon (Nov)

A lot of this depends on the stability of my health as I had a lot of health setback throughout 2019 (I'll have a blog on that soon). I need to see how far behind I am in run training already but keeping up on swimming and strength work with some shorter runs.  I hope to bike a lot more this year (so call if you are looking for a buddy). And need some long run buddies in April and May!  I start bike training tomorrow so here goes another season!