Hey Everyone - No I did not fall off the face of the planet. Due to a total family crisis my life and my partners life came to a screeching halt. My mother, who has been in bad health for a very long time, became gravely ill about 4 months ago. Truth be told, this all started Thanksgiving of 2009 and just progressively got worse until it was critical. The end result is we had to move her into a nursing home and basically have been doing this for the past four months. Today we finally finished moving all of her stuff, her most prized possessions, to our house and Jamie's folks house. While the health issues are seriously frightening, the nursing home has not been a bad experience so far. My mother is now surrounded by people who can take care of her and she also has friends in the home that care about her and spend time with her; whereas before we were her only resource.
Where am I now in regard to Treading Curves? Well folks - I am still treading but not quite for this years triathlon like I had planned. Due to the fact that you can't be in two places in the same time, my training was put on hold and I have now missed the window to make the training requirements for 2011 - but I have not quit. My new goal is 2012 and I will get there. Since I will have longer training time for the 2012 window, I am looking at some events up in Lake Placid.
Meanwhile, what have I been up to?
About three weeks ago I started training in Martial Arts again. I got in 9 training days in a 3 week span. I am working from where my body is at meaning a little slower than I'd like, but moving forward as planned.
Never Give Up! Never Surrender!
Be in touch real soon. I will give you updates and for those of you who are not up on Martial Arts - here is your opportunity to fill in that learning curve as I will be using this as my cross training method of choice before I get back out and hit the road.
PS: I miss my running partner, my very, very cool cousin!
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