Hoo-Yah for fridays!

It's pretty bad when you're excited about a weekend that doesn't have much planned. We have a few things on the list but for the most part, it's going to be a little relaxing.

Yesterday, I did drills in the pool. Nothing too exciting to report other than I am now doing the drill for the 1st 25yds, and swim back the other 25yds. I like this a lot, because 1) your winded from drilling and 2) you can practice your form on the return leg. So, I did 1000yds in total, taking a small break in between each drill. I felt pretty strong on my cooldown.

Tonight - NADA. We have NO plans. I may ride the trainer, but I needed a full rest day so, so far that's what today is. We'll see. I know if I ride the trainer tonight, then I probably won't take a full rest day until next Friday. I'm riding tomorrow and swimming on Sunday.

Tomorrow, we are helping friends from Church move into their new house. They are excited. She is 1 month from delivering, so she better not do a thang. :-) David will be doing the group ride first thing in the AM, so I can do mine with friend from work in the afternoon. Looking forward to that! I don't know the plan or miles yet.

Sunday after Church, we'll quickly get changed and head out to Clemson to join the tri clinic for my first Open water swim. I have to admit I'm a bit nervous. I have a fear of open water, and I guess I need to get over it in order to be ready for the Tri next weekend. I am hoping to get in the 750m swim, since I'm ditching my speed work swim this week. I don't want to overdo the swimming right now, since I'm really enjoying it.

My class is going well. After I pretty much flunked my quiz 2 wks ago (67ish %), I studied hard last week and scored a 100% on the quiz. This week the reading was for 3 chapters and I'm only at the end of the 2nd one. I still have 30 pgs to read by Sunday night to take my quiz. After this week, only 2 more weeks left! :-)

Our free time lately has been looking around at local neighborhoods, trying to find something that we can love now and love in 10/15 yrs. We've had suggestions to find a house to have for about 5 yrs or more, but we are looking at it for longer. It's easy to think "Where do I want to live for the next 5 yrs, or what kind of house to I want for the next 5 yrs". But, it's a bit harder doing what we're doing. We've found several developments we like, but there's always 1 or 2 things that draws us away from it. One lot we REALLY like has a lot of land, and is in a community but, doesn't have a community pool, etc. and I desire to have that for Grace to grow up with. I didn't as a kid (even though we had a pool at our house as a teenager), and that's something we want for her. Location is bad for cycling, and running as well. (VERY important to us). Another lot we found was on the other side of town (away from our lives), and even though we can afford the land, we couldn't afford to pick their builders and build there. So OUT. We found a community the other night out in the sticks of where David rides, and it's GREAT, with nice homes, and good prices on lots but after we timed it, just too long of a drive in compared to our #1 pick. We keep comparing it all to this one piece of land in a developed community that has NO other lots available. It's a FSBO piece of property and it's in PRIME location of everything we do. Close to work, close to the YMCA, close to Church (Our new Church home), and easy to get almost everywhere. It's also got a decent length trail around the community, pool, tennis courts, etc. So, we're trying to get the community covenants and building requirements. We're tossing around the idea because we could choose any builder around here. Wish us luck in this quest! We need it... It's hard to find something we like within our budget. Trust me - our eyes are way bigger than our wallets. Our plan is to sell our place by end of Summer, and move into an apartment until we move on.

Hope everyone out there in blogland has an Awesome weekend and if you're racing - good luck and have fun!!!