Looking Back at May

Let's recap the weekends bullet stye just to see what's been going on around here:

• 3/25 Tybee Island vacation, DNS Skidaway Island Marathon
• 4/1 Umstead 100 weekend, DNS pacing
• 4/8 Masters golf
• 4/16 Easter
• 4/23 Trap Pond 50k DNS
• 4/29 Boone fraternity weekend
• 5/7 Jordan Lake OWS
• 5/13 Mothers Day
• 5/21 solo in the church choir
• 5/27 Boone for memorial day weekend
• 6/2 Chattanooga OWS
• 6/10 The Lion King in Greenville with all the family
• 6/18 Fathers Day

That makes 13 weekends in a row with something major going on. 6 of those require travel out of town for the weekend, more if I had gone to Delaware for the Trap Pond 50k or visited our mothers for Mothers Day. Kind of a crazy schedule. I don't like to do much for the greeting card holidays, so even Fathers Day next weekend is hopefully going to be really low key.

May Totals:
Swim: 41,450 yards, 13 swims, 1 race
Bike: 13.8 miles, 2 rides
Run: 2 miles, 1 run
Strength: 2 times
Yoga: 2 times

20 workouts total, the 1 race I actually made was the Jordan Lake Open Water Challenge 1.2 mile swim. 41k in the water is a pretty strong month, my strongest in a while. I've really been enjoying swimming too, the coaches are really doing me right and I'm getting fast-ish again.

I was feeling good at the beginning of May, so I actually went out on a test run! 2 miles was all the physical therapist would allow. I tried to go out again a few days later but only made it to the end of the block before limping home. I'm going to try again for another 2 miler in June sometime. Pretty sure my fall marathons are all wrecked too at this point. I should have started training (with a 5 mile long run) back on 5/4. Foot still hurts consistently most days. I might get anywhere from an hour to a day of relief, but that's not enough for consistent marathon training.

I thought I was lifting more than that? oh well. Therapist wants me to do more yoga too.

Here's some pictures from May that tell the real story of the month:

The garden is planted! Tomatoes and peppers, oh my

Strength training pays off, check out that mad tricept

Evil Genius played Dr Seuss in a school function

Ghost pepper plant is getting big

The Garden is growing! But what is that project on the left?

I had a solo with the church choir one Sunday

Muscadines starting to grow

Family trip to Boone

and the month included somebody's birthday

 May was a fantastic month. There was a lot going on both athletically and with family stuff. Each one of those bullets I started with deserves its own post, so there's a few more coming. But this May was one for the books. So much fun stuff going on.