Well, it's been a doozy of a week this past week. My beloved labrador retriever, Cassie, passed away last Friday. She's been fighting cancer since we found it last August and it spread pretty massively and she began exhibiting some bad symptoms on Wed evening/Thursday morning last week. I took her in to the vet on Friday morning and as I had suspected, the cancer was quite widespread and had overtaken her chest cavity where it was becoming quite increasingly difficult for her to breathe. We brought her home for a while, captured some memories with her on film, and waited for the grandparents to come watch Audrey for us. We couldn't let Audrey watch her dog die. Audrey is only 2.5 years old and she just wouldn't understand. She knows her Didi is gone and isn't coming home (outside of the box that her cremated remains are in), but she definitely just didn't need to watch her die.
So, that's been what's happening here. I'm sad. No question about it. It is getting easier now though, even though it's just been a few days.
I'm glad I decided not to do a spring half ironman as my training has been for shit these last few weeks. I'm just letting up a little bit after the "year of the ironman" that I coined for 2010. I decided to just have some fun this year and do some sprints and maybe even going to try my hand at a duathlon next weekend here. ha! That'll be interesting. I've actually never done a duathlon, outside of doing a few in training sessions which are super duper fun! I'm looking forward to it. It's a shorty one with 2mi run, 15 mi bike, 2mi run.
This weekend is going to be some fun as we are headed up to CO for some R&R a little bit and hitting the slopes. They've been getting some great snow up in the mountains it sounds like and so we're going to have a fun day hopefully. It's been 4 years since I've been - pregnancy, newborn year, etc. prevented me/us from going any sooner. I'm excited.
