Getting Bitten By The TriBug

Woke up early today, and I mean 5:00 am early. Me and dad went swimming along with the team in ultra. It was my first time to swim with the team, and even start swimming training. I learned a couple techniques on free style along with some drills. One of the things that helped me a lot was to keep my elbows up and to use small quick kicks.

It sure was one tiring morning for me, but luckily I'm homeschooled which meant mom allowing me a 30 minute nap.

After school (well homeschool), we went to buy a couple baking supplies, so expect more baking posts till I start baking.

I just realized that I was beginning to see signs of myself getting the TriBug. Why?

Well I'm running alot more than I used to and I'm beginning to love the sport of triathlon even more. I came to the realization that its hard to train for a sport let alone three, and that all these things I can only do with God's help.

Now I get why triathletes wake up at 5:00 in the morning, and feeling sleepy at work... Because they love seeing change in their endurance, speed, and strength. Personally though, what I love most about training for triathlon isn't just seeing the development of my endurance, speed, and strength, but the development I'm beginning to have mentally, and spiritually. To me it seems that God speaks though me throughout my training, like listening to the Bible while spinning, and listening to hillsong while running.

After school (well homeschool), we went to buy a couple baking supplies, so expect more baking posts till I start baking.

It's been a long day but just to top it off here's one of the conversations I overheard between mom and Brandon (one of my twin brothers)

In Math...
Problem how many footprints all in all with the three blind mice and the seven dwarves.
Mom: "Mice have 4 feet Brandon!"
Brandon: "But Mom they have 2 feet! And in the poem of the tree blind mice poem, the picture there had the mice using their hands to hold the walking stick "

My Dogs New Hairstyle

My dog got groomed today but this time I added a little more twist to his hair...I gave him A MOHAWK!

My First Tri Suit

Like my new tri-suit? Got it just yesterday from dad. :)

Triathlon Training

Today I had trained with dads triathlon team Bike King PLDT at ultra today and I even got the team tshirt.

We ran 5.5 km and that was pretty much 12 rounds in the oval, and I actually thought that wouldn't be able to make it (considering the fact that most of the people in the oval were die-hard triathletes) but God willingly... I made it! It was so much fun meeting the team and I pray that I'll be able to finish the the Tri United 2 triathlon on July 7.

It's run really made me remember to finish the race set before me... From God.

"And so this is Christmas, What have I done?"

Today is the day before Christmas, December 23. We went to Victory today, but this time to preform our Christmas play (Christmas in Egypt) again. Well if you don't know (since I haven't been blogging) I was chosen to be the narrator of the play. Time goes by so fast... Wouldn't you believe my  last post was October? And just to answer the title of this post, I'd be pleased to plate you on the things I've done in the "ber" months.

Probably the very highlight of the ber months was the death of my grandfather , yes, Lolo Doc. You've probably seen most of my posts about him on my posts, and it hurts for me to posting this, but  I've fully recovered from my grief. Although,  there are times wherein I think about him. An example was today, when at the garden I realized the cool Christmas breeze, when I suddenly thought of him coming to our house to maybe grill out. This leads to the story of  my parents in the conversation of buying a new charcoal grill for that led to my dads sad remark of, "Huwag na natin bilhin, Hindi naman natin mapapaimpress si Pa kasi wala na sya." 

So it was my moms Birthday recently, and amidst the funny thought that her birthday celebration was doomsday, and the various games me and my friends played, there was always that singing of Lolo Docs version of Happy Birthday, with or without him was present.

I will miss not having Christmas without Lolo Doc but thank God for many great memories God has allowed to me to experience with him. I know that I should be happy and not sad because I definitely know that he's face to face with his Creator. 

To keep you happy (and me ) let me tell you what happened in the party.  So we were in the study       room: Me, Chessa, Colin, Camerin, Josiah, Joshua, and Kuya Theodor (Josiah's cousin who rents one   of our rooms). We were playing taboo, I was ahead with points and the rest were catching up with me. Kuya Theodor was next. "Ok so this is very famous person in Greece" he says. Mentioning Ceasar Agustus, Homer the poet, and many others, Gelo ( the twins friend) comes in and with a firm answer, says, "I know, I know..." With our attention on his answer he says, "Obama!" Busting with laughter, we fall to the floor.

Watching the Christmas in Egypt Play

Merry Christmas Everyone! And don't worry 1 more day till a pile of Christmas wrappers! 

Another Day

For the past few days I've been extremely busy... In all aspects which ranged from, memorizing Shakespeare poems, finding the slope and intercept of lines, teaching while my mom couldn't teach(which was due to her thyroid operation) and much, much more. As for today moms's gone again which means more responsibility, but thankfully my grandma, who we call Mama Ganda, is here to help out. I learned from her that her step brother actually died from... No not a car accident, no not naturally, but from being one of the rare to have died(or if you may call it, disappear) while working for a Spanish ship in the Bermuda triangle. To me that was amazingly freaky. That led both of us to watching bermuda triangle videos. I also learned she baked in high school...cool!

We weren't be able to go to church, so I watched the service thought the Internet. You can actually watch it yourself though this link:  http://www.ccf.org.ph/the-middle-east-in-bible-prophecy/   
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Today was also that day mom was gone to go to the wake of my grandpa's best friend, Uncle Lory. He was with us most of our trips in Bicol, and we stayed in his resort every time we visited. 

These occurings today remided me to use my time wisely,to live each day as if it were my last, and to start spreading the news of salvation because there are so many people who need God's love.