Back to Reality....Or is it?

After finishing the transalps race in Latsch, Italy, I was ready for a vacation!! After spending 5 days in Northern Italy, laying on the beach and eating lots of great pizza and pasta, I was feeling really ready for some more adventures:)

Me and my new adoptive family travelled by train down to Venice for the day....after spending 3 weeks in the mountains, it was quite a culture shock to visit such a busy, touristy city!! We had a fun day, and had a lot of laughs and funny moments:) Then that night, Rene and family left to go back to Riva and I stayed the night in Venice, ready to fly out the next morning to Istanbul.

I spent such a fun and relaxing week in Istanbul with my longest, and one of my dearest friends, Charla. It was great to have someone to show me around and it was just amazing to see her!!! That is until the day before I was supposed to leave, I got incredibly sick.....we're talking a different kind of sick. I honestly thought, I was going to end up in a turkish hospital. I was so thankful to be with such a close friend who was so fabulous and thoughtful. To make a long story short, I've been struggling to this day, with this "Turkish Plague" back in Canada.

I've been totally inactive for 5 weeks, getting excited when I make it through a full work day, let alone doing any exercise. ( The only positive thing to lazing around the house is the amount of knitting I got done for christmas presents:) )
The last week has been better, and I started to run again 1 1/2 weeks ago.....I feel pretty motivated considering I have signed up for the Las Vegas Marathon in December. Yup, only 6 weeks to train for a marathon after being sick and not running for 5 weeks.
It may be ugly, but at least we will have a lot of fun:)
Everyone keeps asking me what's next. And to be honest, I haven't even thought about it.  Well,  that is, not until this week.....now I'm plotting my next adventure:)