Where have I been? Hibernating to tell you the truth. The post Kona let down was a doozy this year. It seems each year gets harder and harder. For a moment I was thinking of doing IM Western Australia-then I remembered who I am; Gina Kehr who just can not train in winter months. I love getting out of shape (even though I totally play head games with myself) hanging inside and decompressing from the year. 2008 was my most challenging year yet and it is taking me some time to get my mojo back. We had the holidays (I love the food) and then little dude, Blaisen, just turned 1 at the end of January!!! Can you believe it; January 29th my little baby turned 1 and he is walking and talking big time. So cool. Gabriella is 3.5 and we were going through some good growing pains with baby brother around that showed up in her sleep habits after we got back from Kona; and it lasted till about December. It was touch and go there for a while to say the least. But we worked it out and after a very cool “success chart” I developed and some good QT time I incorporated, she decided to let go of the “night games” as I have so named them.

Early December I was able to get in a few weeks of training. My body was still feeling IM and both kids were sick and I just wasn’t feeling that great; so I pulled the training plug and enjoyed the holidays. After the holidays I started getting on it with the training again, which for me was WAY ahead of schedule (heck-I already had 2 weeks in under my belt which was CRAZY) but the body was still not digging what I was doing. Lucky for me I had my new winter ZOOT gear-so I was super warm therefore making me happy even though my body was not . After several weeks of not feeling right I thought it appropriate to focus on weights and let my body recover from the training and childbirth that I put on it last year. I think 8 months post baby was a bit much for my body to handle. The rest seems to be helping and the weights have been great-I am not a lean mean machine right now, more of a muscle machine but that is cool.

Other than that we are plugging along. The economy issue that is out there is effecting us a bit; my real estate is not as “easy” as it use to be so we are having to keep the kids home more making it a bit harder to juggle all the stuff-but we are riding the wave and looking forward to the “groove” that I know will be here at some point. I hate to admit I am struggling a bit with the balance as it is one of my niches-but it is true-I know I will get that balance back, it is just another adjustment.

Hope everyone out there is getting ready for a great year and I look forward to seeing you at the races!

Let it go,
Gina Kehr

Cool Hand Blaisen

Family b-day photo