Stars On My Toes

Moana and I had fun today. She has become such a cute fun little person and I love hanging out with her! I should probably do a real Moana update to document all the cute little things she's doing and saying these days... maybe for her third birthday, which is coming up in about a month. But there's this little tidbit for now... yesterday I got home from my bike ride and like usual was soaking wet and a complete mess and she told me that I looked soggy. Nice vocabulary, used very appropriately! Good girl! Then she looked at my shoes and exclaimed, "Your shoes are fabulous!" That got me thinking that she must not have a very firm grip on what 'fabulous' means, because, um, I have peed on those old nasty dirty stinky bike shoes. They are pretty much the opposite of fabulous.

Anyway, we were at the drugstore today and on a whim I bought these little sticker decal things that go on your fingernails/toenails... actually Moana saw them from the cart and said "Oh can I have those!!?!" and I just couldn't think of a reason why not... So we came home and did our toenails. :) I took a picture of her feet because they are like 100x cuter than mine, even when my toes have little stars on them. Little fact: I only needed 9 stars because I am missing a toenail, which I'm pretty sure is a sign I'm ready for Ironman.

Speaking of being ready for Ironman, I finally had a decent run today. Yay! I had a good swim on Friday and a good bike on Saturday and a good run today... It is all coming together right on time. Interesting too because the run was by HR today... which (sorry coach) I typically hate enjoy significantly less than just running by feel or by pace... so in all honesty I wasn't super excited about doing this run... because runs by HR all year have meant hold back slow down ease up and after a while, well, that just gets obnoxious. NOT that I don't understand the rationale or believe that is good for me- I know it is- which is why I do it- but that doesn't mean I necessarily enjoy being on a leash. But what I found interesting today was that I was finally able to run the effort/pace I wanted to be running at the HR coach wanted me to be running at... and that was actually enjoyable. :) And then at the end I got to bump it up to tempo HR which actually meant "bust a gut HR" so that was pretty cool. Instructions were to keep my HR >165 even on the downhills and the route I chose had a rather significant downhill in the final stretch... I was not sure I would be able to run it hard enough to do that... but I did! I'm pretty sure the stars on my toenails were the key factor in allowing me to do that so for sure I'll be bringing those decals to Kona and performing the mother/daughter pedicure on Oct 7.