Crazy swimming style is working. Kind of. I'm making it the distance in the pool, I just need to translate it to the open water. I don't care what it looks like, as long as it propels me towards my bike.

Swimming is hard, and as I've learned the last four weeks, it's not something you can reteach yourself quickly. The endurance aspect is insane!

I wonder if it's a bad sign that I haven't been sore after all these workouts. I'm not pushing hard enough, going fast enough.

Track workouts last night showed me I have a long way to go on pace. But I knew that. It's nice to run with Kevan and Danny, to have a pacing partner. I bought a digital watch with a pace tracker, so hopefully that will help me keep the pace I want.

Training this week is craziness!

Today: Brick workout, transition practice (light bike, light run, it's too hot!)

Tomorrow: Group cycle with Kevan and Danny. Intimidating? Hell yes. Skipping yoga for this, so I better have fun. ;)

Friday: Hopefully if I can swing it, OWS in Bristol. Even if I swim parallel to the shore while the guys do like a mile, that's ok. I just want to get more and more experience. Going wetsuit free too. Just to try it.

Saturday: Group cycle, maybe 50 miles? Looking forward to this one. It's more distance than I'm used to, but it's closer to what I'd like to ride. Hoping to catch a yoga class in the morning. Maybe open water swim with the YMCA guys too.

Sunday: Yoga! Rest.


I have so much nervous energy going into the race. I'm having a hard time not dreaming about triathlons... It's a mixed bag of dreams too. Some I do really well, some are horrific "what else can go wrong" run throughs...

I hope I can work the energy into something performance enhancing as opposed to performance hampering.

Just keeping upbeat. That's all. I need to finish it. Finishing this triathlon after this year will crown all my acheivements I've made for myself. No pressure, right?

Once I'm out of the pool for training, or at least when I have a week or two to rest on the swim portion I'm going to get more of my tattoo done on my shoulder. Now that I have less body fat, I'm predicting it's going to hurt a lot more. I was squishy last time, I'm not so squishy now...