Abs and Core are getting really boring to me too. I try to squeeze it in when I can, but I really haven't been doing much of it, as you may have noticed. Onto the DB Press...damn girl! That's awesome, 35 for 9! I misread your post and asked myself, why did she only do one set of DB press, but I figured it out. Silly me.  As for the clapping push ups, nice touch. I like them alot because they really help with the sticky point closest to your chest. I think you could have gotten the 40s btw. The DB pullovers are more lats than chest I think, common misconception. Your TRX push ups to fly's to tri is a great split. It's even in the right order so kudos to you. Try flipping the order of your SB Tri Press and your Tri press w. straight bar, I think you will like the difference :)

With all this ab work you've been doing, you better have a sick six pack! I am trying to think of tricks for abs, but I can't think of any.

Onto my workout. Ready for the anticipation to be over? I did a mini Triathlon today! I swam 1/3mi, biked 10mi and finally ran 3.2mi. This workout is called a brick, normally done w. 2 parts of the race, but I got ambitious and did all three events haha. It's called a brick because you feel like one as you are doing it. More on this later. I sent you a pic of my tri shorts, but since they are from the same company as my bike shorts, they look nearly identical, which is why you probably didn't notice. I started with the swim. 1/3mi is hard! This is where I will have the most trouble for sure! I really need to practice swimming again. I thought my cardio was fine, swimming said otherwise. I transitioned out of the water and ran to rinse my body off, remember my skin hates the chemicals in that pool. Here, I realized what a lot of people said to expect, I got really disoriented and I felt like my body was not responding to what I wanted it to do. I spent like 3 minutes rinsing and went straight to my bike upstairs. Put on my socks and shoes and went straight to biking. Silly Minhotaur forgot his bottle in the fridge so after .1mi, I had to turn back and grab it. Back onto the bike section. This little boy almost killed my fun today. He didn't really know how to control his bike and kept swerving side to side. I was coming the opposite way and he nearly swerved into my lane! At 22mph, I would have killed the kid, and then myself. I was kind of pissed because there were like 4 kids riding solo, none of which really understood that you need to stay on one side, a mom and a dad with another kid on a tandem bike. I understand that you want to teach your kids how to ride a bike, but a highly populated trail is not the place to do that. Grr! Back to my workout, rant over! Ok, so the bike ride was pretty good actually. I was able to keep good pace and this time, I used all my available gears when I needed them. The ride started kind of weird, I still felt a little disoriented by the time I got on my bike. Nothing terrible to the point where I felt unsafe though, so you know me, I pushed on without another thought lol. I got back and immediately stripped out of my cycle shoes and put my real shoes on. This is where the "brick" feeling really came in. My legs felt like they weighed an extra 10 pounds each. The 5k run was really hard. I had to take it down to about a 6mph as my steady pace and only peaked at 8mph. It was also really really boring too. My quads, specifically VMO, and calves started cramping in the beginning, but that went away soon. As I kept running, my quads kept getting really pissed and at the end of the run, they kept locking up on me. Needless to say, I will need to get better at running too. Long way to go for Ming Ming, but this will be a fun little start.

As for the pic of the bottles I sent you, my yellow bottle was full of gatorade, my white bottle had water and the shaker had your protein (which I still need to pay you for if someone would give me their info...) The yellow bottle was emptied on the bike and the white was emptied on my run. Needless to say, the protein was post workout. I did not keep time of anything for this workout, I just wanted to get my body ready for this. The Tri shorts were awesome! They actually had good padding too, being that the chamois was just fleece. They dried within 10 minutes of biking too. I think by the time you read this, you will be super excited for the tri too. Perfect :)

Defly share your thoughts on this post!

PS: Super excited for you to come home now, less than 3 week! ZOMG!