Grrrl Power!

I changed my own bike tire this week! Yes! It was really hard and it took me an hour, but I did it. I think it will be a lot easier next time. I loosened that bad boy up. Saturday was our first open water swim, but I was at an ELL workshop in San Jose instead of having my legs chomped at by great white sharks or rogue sea lions (now THAT really happens...). I went running after the workshop in the old 'hood in Campbell.

Today, Sunday, I did a swim/bike set on my own, as per the captain's orders. I was down in Santa Cruz, so I thought I would swim at UCSC for old time's sake, but the pool was closed for cleaning, so I swam at Simpkin's.

Now, I haven't been to Simpkin's in years, so I got a little lost on my bike on the way there. Fortunately, a kindly young man riding a motor scooter and wearing a really frightening skull mask gave me directions. Take that, all you conservative adults who judge teens on their looks!

I got to Simpkin's in no time after that and had a great one-mile swim. Then I rode all the way to Davenport on my bike, somewhere between twenty-five and thirty miles. It was the inagural ride for the new tri suit. Riding your bike for two hours with a wet bathing suit on really does feel just about how you'd imagine it. At first it's really wet, then it's only kinda wet, then it's just overly moist, and by that time, you're all sweaty from the bike so who really knows where the wetness is coming from anymore! As Derek Zoolander would say, "Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty." And as Martha Stewart, everybody's favorite triathlete would say, "It's a good thing!"