• For my first triathlon the swimming will be 400 Yards, the biking will be 7 miles on a flat course (a fact which was even advertised on the race website), and the running will be 2.3 miles, in that order. For my second triathlon, the swim will be half a mile, the bike will be 12 miles on apparently hilly terrain, and the running distance will be approximately 3 miles.


• The Big Giraffe and my parents are buying me a bike for my birthday although I won't actually get it until it gets warmer. However, the bike store will let me put a deposit down now so that I can get a 2007 model which is much cheaper. This way I also don't have to stick my brand-new bike in the basement to wait out the winter


• Suzanne, one of my oldest and best friends as well as my younger son's godmother, is treating me to pedals for my birthday. This bike is truly a gift of love since it's from some of the most important people in my life. Or perhaps, it is a gift of awe of my insanity commitment to this.


• The running is going better than I expected, but I am a little worried about doing it after having done the swimming and biking legs of the triathlon. I just have to keep in mind that I won't be doing it at 5:30 in the morning.


• Yesterday my older son (OS) decided to hop like a bunny rabbit throughout the entire grocery store leading me once again to conclude that Beverly Clearly is a genius and somehow was able to see into the future and base Ramona after OS. Right on the cover of Beezus and Ramona is a picture of Ramona wearing bunny ears because she insisted that she was a bunny rabbit and proceeded, much to Beezus's horror, to begin to hop to the library.

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