I have been meaning to start a blog for a while now, but never found the time. Honestly I am not even sure how much I will be able to update this one, but I am hoping to be able to do it at least once a week. I don’t have the perfect grammar (yeah I know… shocking), nor do I always know how to put things on the right words, Spanish people are known for lack of PC, so this might not even be the typical blog, for all that I know this might never be read by anybody other than me and family but that is the whole point… I am documenting this year ahead of me so that in the future I can come back and read it, and most importantly that my kids can read it in the future. I want them to know how crazy their mom is! And I am one of those people who love writing RRs (race reports) so I know for sure my RRs will not be lost somewhere in my PC anymore, they now have a home!
As an adult I have gone through two huge milestones in my life, and I was able to document these by bloging. In 2004 I married my best friend and then in 2006 & 2008 I became a mom, to my son Marc and my daughter Nora.
Marc & Nora
Mommy hood is so much challenging than I ever thought possible, this is a whole topic on itself that maybe one day I will address on a separate post, but as challenging as it might be I love being home with the kids.
Me & hubby
Being a wife is not any easier, but the four of us try to make our best at making it a ‘functional family’.
The Brahims
It is time to hit another big milestone… doing my first IM. Why now? Well a couple of reasons; first of all I will be turning 40 and I always thought it would be pretty cool to start the new decade with a big statement, I can’t think on a bigger statement than being able to say ‘I am 40 and I am doing an IM’. My second reason is a group decision… triathlon can be a very lonely sport if you do most of your training on your own, but if what you are training for is an IM distance then it becomes just plain miserable. A six time cancer survivor and friend of mine, Brian Balmes, decided as he was laying in a hospital bed recovering from his surgery that he was going to do his second IM in 2012. With Brian doing an IM some friends started talking about doing it with him, to make a long story short we are now 20 of us (12 girls + 8 guys) doing IMFL. It is going to be an exciting year and I can’t wait to go through it with all of them. To make it even better I was able to convince my sister Raquel to join in the fun, so there will be two Gil sisters toeing the start line... it can’t get any better than that!
The Gil sisters
So, come back here for some action as often or as little as you want, in the mean time I will be making my way to IMFL and mumbling about anything and everything that goes through this crazy mind.
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ReplyDeleteI can't believe i made it to your blog ;)
Even tough we won't be "training together", we'll be "training together" and I'll be right there suffering with you. I have the feeling this is going to be an interesting journey and kind of the opposite of wine (as Luis calls it). We'll have bad days and worse ones but it will all pay off when we cross that finish line. It just s@#$cks that you'll be in heaven 10hrs before i will :)