Lately...

Hey everyone!

Captain midnight (well I guess technically it's Captain 2:30) here (again...).

We had 3 decent nights of sleep this week where I made it at least from 11:00pm-4:30am (one of those all the way to 6:00am for the first time in probably 5 months! hooray! So grateful! Never thought I would be thankful for a sleep schedule like this WITHOUT a baby) so I guess one can't get too greedy before returning to the land of the 2:30am up-and-at-'ems!

So in the meantime I thought I would update a little on what's been going on in our world the last week or so!

It's been pretty low key which has been nice! 

Last Sunday we celebrated my 31st birthday. Not going to lie - I was feeling a little "blah" about my birthday (and I LOVE birthdays but nothing puts a damper on all the things I would really like to do fun - especially Colorado fun-like being super preggo and yucky rainy weather). Coming through like the awesome champ hubs that he is - I have to give MAJOR props to Alex who totally made me feel super special and we had a great time exploring Denver despite my initial "blah" attitude and the not so awesome weather! We had an AWESOME brunch at Four Friends Kitchen here in our neighborhood (if you come visit us we will definitely be taking you here!), did some earning of a million awesome husband points shopping, ate at a new asian fusion restaurant for dinner, picked up some solidly delish cupcakes from Whole Foods and checked out the very cool Samurai exhibit at the Denver Art Museum (or the DAM as it is referred to here...). The museum was really neat and the other general exhibits were really interactive and great for even the not-so-artsy-fartsy people like me us who generally don't "get" it all the time. Definitely a good one to check out if you are visiting the area or just want something fun to do on a rainy Sunday! I had lots of very sweet texts, emails, facetimes and phone calls from precious family and friends too which made the day even that much better! Thanks everyone! So we had a great day and I'm officially IN my thirties so that's something! On to the next few weeks where Alex and I are briefly the same age!

Other than that...Alex has been riding his bike a  lot which is awesome - it's amazing to see him acclimate so quickly! He's really a tremendous athlete! This week he and a buddy ventured out to the Olympic Training Center Velodrome in Colorado Springs (about an hour from us) to hit up some serious track training! Very cool and Alex really enjoyed getting back to the track! I can't wait to see him kick some major bike booty during this next race season! 

Other than that it's IRONMAN TEXAS weekend! Can't believe it's been a year since I was trucking it around The Woodlands! 

If you're interested at all and didn't access my other/last blog - I documented my 10 month journey from mastectomy to Ironman last year here.

This year definitely brought many challenges and unexpected hiccups to the athletes (i.e. insane thunderstorms, ACTUAL HAIL, sheltering in place and a shortened bike course with 83 turns through city streets instead of country roads). Major props and some SERIOUS congrats to my friends and all the athletes who seriously dug in a crushed it this year! You are awesome Ironmen!! 

While my current status is much more...

 and I definitely don't see another full Ironman in my future for ever a while, I can't wait to get back to enduring racing. So far I've tentatively got Half Ironman Boulder 70.3 or Tri The Boat 70.3 Steamboat Springs and The Woodlands Marathon on the docket for 2017. This baby weight is coming OFF ya'll! I will not be a walking land-whale for long (I hope!! I've got a LONG way to go to achieve that again! haha!).  I would love some company out there so if you're up for it - come join! 

Welp...I guess that's about it for this late night update! Hope you all are having a great weekend! We will update again soon! 

All my late night love,

Hannah