Tri Ing for a Faster Finish - Minnesota

Had my "doggy ears" revised two weeks ago which amounted to removal of what looked like two butterflied jumbo shrimp Or 3" + from each end of the incision and a few stitches to the bb to take away the "hood". All I really feel like it did was keep me out of the pool for three weeks - maybe it would've been better toilet sleeping dogs lye ;)! Pic to follow n

Really? Feel swollen and out of shape ar 11 weeks ?howcan this be. There is a line a separation of sorts from bb up. What's that!? Have picbut no way to upload from iPhone

I am 48, two kids 21 and 20. About four years ago I started working out "vigerously" as my family doctor would say. I fell into a group of triathletes and began working out outside. I had been loosing what would amount to a70# of weight loss. A lot happened as I got busy with my new hobby. Really busy. Last year I did some sort of race every weekend to include seven half ironman races. I never finished even in the top half of my age group but had a big sense of accomplishment having never biked a bike with gears, swam with my face in the water or ran anywhere except through the mall to get to a store before it closed. I quite my desk job and started my own business cleaning homes with all natural products. Workouts became central to my life sometimes three a day and usually much more intense with dryland training for skiing, kettlebells and pump and tone raising the bar higher then the jazzercise or step aerobics I had been doing before getting into triathlons. So this year feeling that 120# will be my low weight at 5'4", I decided that the redundant skin, intense stretchmarks and various sections of flab that only I knew was jiggly when I ran a would have to go. When I looked in the mirror all I saw was a plate of deconstructed fish and chips. (sorry my husband always says I make a comparison during a story to food so that's for him). Comparing pictures tonight I am quite pleased, day six and second drain probably comes out tomorrow. My back is sore, my stomach tight from the muscle tightening and some brusing at the flanks, but I think maybe just maybe in a couple of months I will run swim and bike just a smidge faster than I did before. If not the journey has still been amazing and I am sticking with my goal of a half ironman in every state. And when I visit my dad in Miami, I can go to the beach and shamelessly wear a bikini ;)