Training Log Archive: kissy

Sad news...Annie has kennel cough. She must have caught it at the dog park...Graham's been taking her more often lately. She's been a little pathetic lately, but she scored some hydrocodone at the vet today as a cough suppressant, so she'll be fine.

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My first open water swim session of the year...and for the past 20 years or so.

It was not great, but it was not a disaster. I took it slow, swimming to the first buoy and back. That went fine. But my trip to the second buoy involved a little panic attack at the buoy, so I turned and made a beeline to the floating divider that divides the swim beach from the training area. I hung on that for awhile until I calmed down, and then swam back to the beach.

I swam a few more times to the second buoy, and it got better. I practiced sighting so I wouldn't swim in circles. As my final lap, I decided to go to the third buoy, and that was a bit of a disaster. I had a definite panic attack between the 2nd and 3rd buoys, and flipped on my back to calm down. I backstroked for a bit and then swam to the 3rd buoy, where I could stand up. I stood there awhile, with a few tears streaming down my cheeks, until I decided I just needed to put on my big girl panties and swim back. I did that and decided that was enough for the day.

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I had brought my bike because I suspected that the swim session wouldn't go so great, and that I would need something to bolster my spirits. This was the same route we rode on Saturday, but I was slower today. I could feel the swim in my legs.

More vetting.

After the brick, I hopped in my car and drove to Laramie to vet some controls for the Rocky Mt. O-Fest. It was a spectacular day...nice enough to even get the politicians outside.

Liz Cheney visiting her BFF, Mr. Swampfox:

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After the visit from our not-so-favorite politician, we headed over to the Snowy Range to see what the last of the snow looked like. Man, there is still a lot of snow over there! Enough to probably hide a passle of snow snakes.

This was a very busy day! It began with a brick with the tri training team. This was a pretty hilly route, getting up to 31 mph on one downhill! And, showing again that this is the strongest of the three events for me, I led the pack the whole way around! We were even on the flats, but I pulled away on the uphills.

Then the running part. We had to come in from the cycle, quickly change to running shoes, and take off. Man, my legs were wobbly. This was really good training because it's definitely different from just starting from my house to run 3.1 miles. We'll be doing bricks almost every Saturday from now until the race, so I can only get better.

And then it was off to Laramie Range for some vetting of Blue controls. I found the streamers in exactly all of the right places, so that was encouraging.

The O-Fest is going to be so much fun! If you're not signed up yet, you'd better get moving!!

Tonight was a very mini tri race at the home of the founder of Colorado Wild Women, Celeste Callahan. Her house was incredible! She had a lap pool in her backyard and another one in the basement. Easily a $1M+ house. And she is a World Champion age grouper in triathlon. She's 74 and is going back this year to the World Champs, in the Olympic distance. Quite inspirational.

The race was 2 laps in her pool (~80m), bike around the block (~1 mile), and run to the end of the block and back (~ .3 mile), plus two transitions. It was a "guess your time" race, and I came in third. I guessed 12:17 and did it in 11:14. This was a lot of fun!

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