Just a Mom Who TRI's: Is the blog dead?

My last post was almost a month ago. And before that I went way too long in between posts. The blog is on hiatus. The blog is the lowest of my priorities right now and I apologize if I do have a few readers left. School is ending soon and things are about to get really busy around here. My Ironman training is in full gear and that has me going like the Energizer bunny! Sometimes I go to bed at night and think "oh I really should get around to blogging." But now I'm putting that aside. I'm not going to lose sleep on a simple blog post. I admit I wanted my blog to grow this year and had full intentions of trying to make it happen but I thought, "Why?" So I could get more readers? Maybe. So I could get more sponsored posts? not interested. Make money? nope.

But I know some of you would like to check in to see how my training is going so I promise to at least post once a month to report some updates. Here is a brief rundown of what's going on:

The six month mark to Ironman Arizona was a few days ago. This is show-time! No more goofing off, it's time to get cracking. I've enlisted the help of a coach. Her name is Amy with Pure Bravery. We seem to click really well and she's even had to talk me down off the ledge a few times and is always reassuring. I like that in a coach. I think we will have a great relationship over the next few months.
She's got me on a plan which currently has me swimming a few times a week, running 2-3 times a week and biking another 2-3 times a week. Now this is still very early on in my training. I'm only in week 3 (of 25). So I can expect to see some long days starting right around the time the kids go back to school in August. I been told that I should be prepared to drop the kids off at school, grab my bike and ride for about 6-7 hours while they are at school. It's overwhelming to think about but I have to trust in my training schedule to get me there.

Last weeks schedule looked like this:

Monday: Rest day

Tuesday: Swim 2200 yards (sets) followed by a 30 min run

Wednesday: 1 hour spin, followed by 30 minutes of core strength

Thursday: Swim 2200 yards (sets)

Friday: Bike 1 hour

Saturday: Run 3 miles, Bike 1 hour, Run 3 miles consecutive (brick)

Sunday: Swim 2200 yards (sets)

My fundraising for Team IMF is going great! I am proud to say that I hit the $2500 mark yesterday. Yahoo! A giant heartfelt THANK YOU goes out to my friends and family members who have donated so far. I could not have done it without your support. I'll have a lot of time out on the course by myself during IMAZ and know that I will be thinking of each and every one of you. The entire team so far has raised a total of $112K for the Arizona community. That is pretty darn awesome!
Update on the kids: This is the last week of school. D graduated from preschool last week and had a cute little ceremony. T is just finishing up third grade. We have got lots of fun activities planned for the summer so they will be plenty busy. I better not hear any "I'm bored's!"
One last thing...I still plan to keep my blog's Facebook page and Instagram account up and running. In fact I am learning to LOVE LOVE LOVE Instagram. If you can please give me a follow on my Mom Who TRIs account. Since I won't be blogging as much I hope to post at least once a day on those accounts.