May Update

Once again, it's been quite a while since I've updated my blog. I do twitter often www.twitter.com/matsteinmetz or if you look to the left side of the page, you can see my updates there as well. I try to refrain from telling everyone how much coffee I drink, how big time I am (as described by the size of my inbox), or how everything is rainbows and unicorns here in Boulder.

Things are rolling along, as usual, on my end. Hopefully, the weather will decide if it wants to be sunny and warm or cold and snowy at some point.

Kelly and I are leaving Boulder for Indiana this week for a wedding. Kelly will be feeling like a new woman, as she gets her braces off on Wednesday. This couldn't have come soon enough for her. She has threatened on more than a few occasion to go into the bathroom and start taking them off herself. She has had them on for 6 months longer than she was originally told. I'm sure wearing braces as a 25-26 year old female doesn't do wonders for your self confidence. What woman will go through to look beautiful. Actually, she didn't have them for cosmetic purposes...they were to help treat her TMJ.

Back in college, I used to work at the Fountains, where the wedding reception is being held. I would bartend weddings and other social events with my buddy Chris. It was actually a fun job, but there are a number of your classic wedding songs that I prefer not to hear again. I used to do this thing where I would dance behind the bar and it would drive Chris nuts. I'd try and keep my upper body still, so that the patrons couldn't tell what I was doing, but my legs were cutting a rug. We both began to consider other employment options once we started bartending weddings for people that we knew...we felt like dorks back there behind the bar with our bow-ties.

After the wedding, I'm staying in Indiana for another week to race a Half Iroman in Taylorsville, Kentucky. It is a small race and a short drive from my parents...so, it fits the cost effective race scheduling. I've always struggled with racing when I don't feel like I'm on top form, but I'm slowly coming around to realizing that you can't always be on fire. It's also best to work out the kinks in a smaller race prior to your "A" races. My buddy, Ed McDevitt did just that last weekend, where he had the fastest swim+bike+run in a HIM, only to lose it with crappy transitions (he got 3rd).

It will also be nice to get a little sea level training while catching up with some of my friends. A few of them have become avid runners so I won't have to track them down at the bar:-)

Mat