A thousand words.

Apparently there were school pictures some time in the last month. They showed up Friday. Times have changed in the month or so I've been working full time. In years past, my boys wore blue aloha shirts and my girl wore a cheongsam. Here's what we got this year:

Shaggy hair, t-shirts, and god only knows if their teeth were brushed. Henry's wearing one of my old Berkeley hippie beads, a look that neither of us need photographic evidence of. Wyatt's photo appears to be straight out of 1978. And where's Sky? Apparently Mom of the Year only sent two checks to school. So there is no picture of Sky in her favorite Hannah Montana t-shirt, the one with a built-in rhinestone necklace that I always mistake for rhinestone handcuffs. Too bad, because now that it's too small, its extra-classy.

In addition to the important business of taking pictures of my scarred body parts and trying to decide what they look like, I fit the last long brick in this weekend. And it wasn't that long. There was a little bit of Holy Crap, I'm supposed to run 2 more hours at that pace in 2 weeks? But it wouldn't be a proper taper without a little I didn't train enough!! freak out, would it? It is time to start recovering, relaxing, and thinking about the race in 12 days. Part of me thinks phew! I just barely got healthy in time. And the other part of me knows that this will be the shortest build I have ever gone into an Ironman with.

Seven weeks ago I was still too injured to call it training. It was rehabbing. I ran 4 miles that week. Then for six weeks, I played catch up. Now for two weeks I will sit on my butt hoping that the body remembers something from Kona last year and Arizona this spring. Either that, or here's hoping that Triathlete Mag is much more powerful than we all thought. Like Nostradamus-powerful. Because they say I consistently run under 3:20, and I've only done that once. I need at least two sub-3:20s to call it consistent, right? All I can do is done. now all that's left is readying the mind.

That synchronized waving problem again, popping up on this year's longest run out in the Energy Lab.