-----ing with My Homies

Training with homies is so much easier/better > training by yourself. Why? Well first, you will actually do it. There are some days when I can just think of 8758947 excuses to NOT do my workout, but if I have a workout planned with someone, I won't bail unless I'm REALLY sick. It's no secret that I like to repeat things in my head while training, (hello, who counts to 10 a whole half marathon and is totally kosher with that?) Somehow the song, "Rollin' with my Homies" got stuck in my head and whenever I do any sort of training with others, I end up repeating ---ing with my homies ....... the entire time. (Beth, what is telling about me that I do that?!)

I started off cove-ing with my homies two weeks ago. It was only my second open water swim of the season, but it was lots of fun to swim with Marison, Hannah, Tanya, and Sal. The water was like a pool it was so calm, which helps me not hyperventilate and flip a bitch in the water. I've continued to cove with the homes this week with Fwed and trying to catch some of the draft of Charles and Taylor. Well, and Boc Choy, but he was waiting in the car. Going to the cove with other people is something that MUST happen or else I will not swim. There are too many monsters and sharks in that water for me to swim by myself!

I've been digging with my homies aka doing big gear work. Trina and Schlocks let me play catch up with them the whole time (except I never caught up) out doing GWL and Honey Springs repeats. Trina was nice enough to help me with Hi-Maintanene when he was literally falling apart.. I tried building my bike back after St. Croix and that really didn't go so well! Thank god for Paul at Hi-Tech for helping me.

Unfortuanately I had to settle with waving to my homies on my Sunday long runs because no one wanted to do a 2.5 hour run with me with Torrey Pines repeats built in. Luckily I saw enough people out on the PCH so I was able to wave and cheer a little bit.

My favorite homie workout this week was yesterday's "dying with the homies." Michele, Fwed, Honisch, Shane and I took off for a 100 mile ride. I think Michele and I were the only ones who actually had 100 miles on their schedules because when we got back to Honisch's house at 90 miles, we opted to keep going. Obviously at this point we didn't WANT to keep going, so those last 10 miles weren't cute. We stopped by Bergs house (he wasn't home, but we did get to see Kristen!), we stopped at Lululemon to see my lulu homies, and we stopped.....at Burger Lounge. After a cheeseburger, fries, and a chocolate milkshake, we were ready to finish up those last miles and get ready for the T run. We decided to run trail because that just seems to make the time go by faster. I ran the first 30 minutes with Michele, but then she turned around because she has the Encinitas Sprint Triathlon today, and didn't need to do a 2 hour T run. It was perfect because the first 30 minutes are usually death for me, but running with Michele made time fly by and before I knew it, it was time to turn around. I felt great the first 90 minutes of the run, and almost at exactly 90 minutes, my milkshake was NOT bringing all the boys to the yard. My stomach hurt, my right quad was cramping (this one cramped during St. Croix, too -- wtf!?) and I was not a happy camper. I trotter back to my car, but still had extra time to run. I ended up doing 12.5 miles which I am pretty happy about.

This weekend I got a facebook chain message from Marison and she was telling Trina and I that she had to share her training schedule with us for next week otherwise she'd start crying. Well when I saw her schedule I think I started crying because I know my shit will be really similar to hers! But just the fact that we are all in this crazy training together makes everything so much more fun and actually doable. If I had to do a 100 mile ride and 12.5 trail run by myself, I'd tell Lesley to fudge off! Thank god for all the homies!