Family Photos

Today was a fun day. It rained all day, so I went to church, did some grocery shopping, and sat around all day. We were supposed to have ridden at noon but didn't, and I thanked God for the reason to not train. Will worked me hard last week and I needed time to recover. We are going to try the same workouts this week, every other day instead of consecutive days, and I hope it will go better and that I won't be as exhausted. Talked to Lana, talked to Robin, talked to my dad, and relaxed. Lovely!

This was my note to Will.

Here's my proposal for this week: I will train T/T/S and repeat last week (you said that was an option, right?).

Here's how I felt over the last week:

• Saturday's workout: good
• Sunday's workout: tired
• Monday: day off absolutely necessary
• Tuesday: OK—rode well, worked out, tired and slow later
• Wednesday: fatigued (you knew this; you asked during the second set of lunges if I was really tired)
• Thursday: exhaustion was compounded, but I tried really hard to not let it show
• Friday: rode all junk miles on my bike because I was so tired—my legs would not move fast
• Saturday: sat in a hot, hot tub and that's it—I wasn't sore, just super tight; it felt akin to having run a marathon!
• Sunday: riding later and we'll see how it goes, but I think it will go better than Friday

I don't think I can do three days in a row effectively. This will give you a chance to focus on hockey this week and not worry about other stuff, and it will give me a chance to do this one well and hopefully riderun better during the week.

I have high hopes that this week will be better, but I am sad that I will have to do it alone.

In family news, Aunt Jean sent some great pictures of some of our immediate and extended Acheson family. Here they are!

Grams 1940s

Gramps 1950

Great-Grandpa and Great-Grandma Spring, the Berres (I don't know who they are) 1950

Great-Grandpa and Great-Grandma Spring 1950

Ed, Jean, Judy, Cliff 1958

Judy, Jean 1959

Judy, Grams, Dad 1961

Muriel and Bud (Grams and Gramps) August 1975

Great-Grandpa and Great-Grandma Acheson October 1975

Great-Aunt Lucinda (or Lucille), Great-Grandma Spring December 1975

Great-Aunt Barbara, Great-Grandma Acheson December 1975

Great Grandma Acheson, Judy, Great-Grandma Spring, Grams August 1976

Gramps January 1, 1977

Gramps, Grams, Aunt Lucy, Uncle Ed,
Aunt Judy, Dad, Mom, Aunt Jean 1979

Grams, Great-Grandma Spring February 1979

Gramps, Reid, Jean, Grams, Mom, Dad
Great-Grandma Spring and Michelle, Great-Grandma Acheson and me, Great-Grandpa Acheson
Judy and Robin, Ed, Lucy Christmas 1984

Judy and Michelle, Lucy, Ed, Grams, Gramps
Dad, Mom and me, Great-Grandma Spring, Jean and Robin, Reid July 1986