Happy Birthday to me!

Once again -and it seems every year a little bit faster- December 21 comes around and its time to get “officially” one year older (the day before you are still one year older but you don’t tell anyone the truth). This year everything lined up pretty nicely: a) my birthday landed on a Monday so Sunday was prefect to get together with friends, b) I am still here as usually I am gone for holidays with my parents somewhere warm, c) mom is visiting for a couple of weeks, d) I was in very good spirits. All this things combined together and after many many years I decided to have most of my closes friends over to celebrate my birthday, just like when we were 10 or so. I was telling my mom that I could not remember last time we put out a birthday party like that, but we were glad we did as I had a really great time.

Anyone that knows my mom knows that she loves cooking, especially for us and friends, and when I told her about inviting people over she was instantly into “cooking mode”. I wanted to make it simple, just because I did not want her to work like crazy, but sometimes with mom it does not work that way. She pulled out quesadillas to start, home made pizzas, and 2 cakes (yes, 1 was not enough). Needless to say I was stuffed at the end. Food was great, I love my moms cooking and I think everyone really liked it as well, THANKS MOM! And obviously thanks to all the people that came, great times!

That was Sunday, but my birthday was Monday, how could I not celebrate again Monday? To start off the day I woke up at 5:00 to have a 5:45 Monday swim, nice way to start the birthday with 2x400, 3x300, 4x200 and 5x500 with different torture instruments. Then 5x100 on 2:00, and when you see that you know its going to hurt… Swim was good and I got to work after. At work once again I had ridiculous amounts of cheesecake, banana bread, and all sort of goodies that came as a Christmas/Birthday Package Deal. I was stuffed once again and the 50 min run in the afternoon was less than pleasant, but still had to get that done. I did not give a second thought when I was eating like there was no tomorrow (weak of my part) and therefore I did not deserve a birthday “off the hook” pass either.

Aside from that everything is going well. Starting to run again after a while very slowly ~5/km to test out the waters for a week or 2. I think the plantar faciitis is very slowly going away but I am being very careful and aware of it at all times while jogging to make sure I can feel any changes, major discomfort, or whatever. Swimming is going very well and cycling as well. I am getting more and more workouts in using the power meter and I am loving them.

The next 2/3 days will be very busy and I will be heading off to Mexico on the 24th. In between now and then I have to fit 3 days of work (until Thursday), 9 hrs of training, one trip to MEC, a birthday party, 16 hrs of sleep, and packing for the trip amongst others. Basically, no time to waste… Ohh well, I think I will very much enjoy 16 days in Mexico so all the cramming will be well worth it =)

Facundo