2011. I never thought we'd get here. It sounds so futurist, Twenty-Eleven.
I'll admit, I'm a little sad that I let this blog get stale. I really was into it with the triathlon training and the couple of months after that. Unfortunately, I didn't have too much to update the world on. I tried to keep the exercising going, but it just wasn't happening. I felt like I had missed out on too many Friday nights and too many birthday parties, that I really just wanted to let lose and have a little fun.
I started running again about 3 months after my last race, it wasn't as easy as I thought it would be. It didn't last long, since I had an epic trip planned with my parents to go away to Egypt. More to come on that, but it was a fantastic trip, where the last thing I thought about was my cubicle back in NYC. We were walking everyday and exhausted by the early evenings. After Egypt, it was off to Singapore to spend Christmas with my entire immediate family. A rare and wonderful thing, and definitely a change from last year.
I was in Singapore for 1 week and managed to squeeze in 2 good workouts (one with each parent) between the eating, the jetlag, and the being out and about in the city. After Singapore, it was off to India for 1 week, where I managed to do 2 full boot camp workouts with my Australian cousins. One of my cousins is training for the Berlin Marathon, so he was pretty serious about it. I can, with very little doubt, say that I'm almost 100% sure that the people of my grandmother's little town have never seen the sight they say. 4 athletes running through the dusty roads of Thiruvalla, Kerala (South India), with one of them being a white man, two being female (women working out in India? in public? totally unheard of), and one being a 6'4" indian giant built like a rugby player wearing extremely short spandex shorts. I love my family. :)
It was a good trip, with a good kick in the pants that I need to kickstart my energy and workout regime. 2011, here I come.
