Panic. Bike. Walk.
PART I: PANIC: Forty-three degrees outside this morning. Sixty-two degrees in the lake. The Expert and I head out early. We stop at the gate to Lake Lanier’s Mary Alice Park. Time for the Inaugural Swim Bike Mom’s Swim Bike Run Event (a/k/a two weeks to race day). The old guy waiting at the guard […]
Open Water Willies
Sunday will be my first open water swim practice before the big race. I have tried on my Free Willy wetsuit once, but only before the purchase at All3Sports. I thought that I probably ought to try it again before heading out to the lake. The Expert is in Chicago and the kids are in bed. […]
Triathlon Smells….
….like heaven. Okay, so maybe I’m weird. But I love smelling like a pool after a swim. Today, I had a tough, tough swim, which ended with three short time trials. I felt great after the workout, which finished up with 3×50 at 0:53, 0:52, and 0:51. Then I had a breakfast meeting. Each […]
We Orcas Rule the School
Received this photo from Brooke, a TriCrowd fan, and I loved it so much I had to put it up (with her permission, of course). She said she “looks like a conehead in a whale costume.” You go girl, with your Orca suit and conehead swim cap. Girl after my own heart! We Orcas rule the […]
Shamu the Triathlete
Well, my worst fear is realized. The wetsuit, which I now proudly own, is an ORCA brand suit. It is so pretty. But the name. Oh, the shame. Disclaimer: This post contains disturbing images inappropriate to those scared of big gals in neoprene. As suspected, I am rocking the men’s suit. The sizing chart for the women’s suit […]
Try on Wetsuits 2011
I am counting down the dreaded seconds until Wednesday. Wednesday is my planned trip to All3Sports, for the dreaded SwimBikeMom event: Try on Wetsuits 2011.This morning, Coach Monster asked me again if I had a wetsuit. I told him that I had read the horrors of wetsuits for fat-bottomed girls in my Slow Fat Triathlete book, and I […]
Wetsuit Time
Coach Monster told me that if I didn’t have a wetsuit, that I better get one. I knew this day would come. I have dreaded it. The Expert and the kids were watching Jumanji, and I was browsing wetsuits online. Out of the blue, I piped up and told the Expert, “You know, I think I’m […]
Kiss It, Valentine’s Day
Today was an awful day. And to top it off, it’s Valentine’s Day. Ugh. Blech. I had garbage for Court today… and after spending my entire weekend thinking and digesting that stupid case, I left work at 1:30 to squeeze in my workouts before I had to come home to my second job (crazy kids […]