The alarm went off at 5:45am Saturday. In case you didnt know what “am” meant, that’s in the morning, folks! On a Saturday. Not cool! We got the car loaded up with a week’s worth of luggage for the weekend, including dress-up clothes (this is what I call it when I have to wear heels), training clothes, a stand-up fan, bikes, and trainers, and headed to our first destination: West Roxbury. Here we spent five hours on the trainers while listening to Jesse’s post-travel thoughts/rants (always entertaining), and followed it up with a sweet 40 minute run in SHORTS!! Woop woop! We took down a recovery drink, showered, and hit the road by 3 for destination number two: Hampstead, NH.

We blew up dust as we skidded into the parking lot, got dressed in the car, and cut off the bridal party on our way into the wedding (I kid you not)! “Hurry! In there!” the father of the groom directed us as they lined up for their entrance. Because it was Valentine’s Day, we were wondering if they were going to go the super-cheesey construction-paper hearts all over the walls, red wedding dress route. Luckly they did not. It was a really nice wedding with normal portions for the meal (not that sampler crap some places like to get away with)! We danced the night away (pretty much me holding onto Tim and hoping not to end up plastered to the wall when he gets a little over zealous with his self-taught swing moves), and peaced-out to destination number three: Salem, NH.

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I barely made it to our room in the Holiday Inn before I was down for the count (it was only 10:30, but I RARELY go to bed after 8:30 – a loser, I know!). Everything was going really well- I was hitting that sleep hard- until I was awakened by the buzz saw immitation that a certain someone was practicing. Oh, wow! That was some impressive snoring! Even with the interuptions, we managed about 8 hours of sleep which is the minimum that I require if you don’t want me to go infant-without-a-nap on you around 3 in the afternoon. We hit the “fitness room”, and did a little redecorating. Basically, we moved everything in the 8 x 4 room to the sides and set up our trainers. We got the recovery ride done, and headed out for the long run. With my lack of navigational skills, these can get pretty interesting when done in areas that I don’t know well, but we found a damn-near perfect loop, which we repeated 4 times. This allowed us to focus on the run and not the land marks at every turn. It ended up being a really good run! Again, took down a recovery drink, showered and headed out for destination number 4: Amherst, NH.

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This was a quick stop at the family of the groom’s house for a post-wedding breakfast. Hung out here for half an hour, and took off for destination number 5: Lawerence, MA.

After a few road-rage-induced outbursts, and a short loop around the city, we found our way to the Sons of Italy, site of the TriFury clinic. Luckily we were not the only ones running a bit behind, so we were able to slide in the back and sit for a minute before it was my turn to get up in front of everyone and talk about my past season, the years leading up to it, and my goals for the future. This has been a bit strange for me as I feel the story is really not all that exciting (started relatively young, trained, raced, etc), but the athletes always have good questions which makes it more entertaining. We chatted for about an hour, and then Tim and I departed for home. 36 hours after the beginning of our adventure we rolled into the driveway having not missed a second of training – good work!

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Tags: Hampstead, NH, Salem, Training, travel, TriFury, West Roxbury