Wednesday: The Bambino Brigad, Gilad and Evening Swim, Also, I had a hair appointment

Honestly, daylight savings time is killing us. Our routine is off, we are in bed too late in the morning, resulting in one of us being late and one of us staggering around like a drunk while Ivan is plopped higglety-pigglety in front of The Wiggles for his breakfast. It is a sad and irresponsible state of affairs. We simply cannot get our act together.

This morning, Ivan slept quite late, I was up, and the clock told me that unless I got my act together, I would never make it to the Bambino Brigade on time. There was much running about and a sigh of dismay over the state of my laundry basket as we leapt into the car to get to Radnor Lake for the hike.

The last time we went to hike at Radnor, it was more than freezing. It snowed and Ivan was a small block of angry ice. This week, however, the weather was just perfect: bright and sunny, not too hot. There were lots of women with babies, and it was lots of fun. We hiked for about four miles, and I can't show you my Garmin info, because activities are not loading from my Garmin right now, and it is making me three kinds of crazy. (What was my heart rate? How many calories did I burn? I can't see a map of the course! How will I survive?)

At home, I got in a Gilad workout before heading out to the pool around the corner for my swim. I have a hair appointment tonight, so I can't swim with the triathlon group. For this reason, I must go it alone, which I do not love, but there is very little that would induce me to change a dearly gained hair appointment. Also, I was about to catch on fire, because the pool temperature is a bit too warm to swim more that a mile comfortably. After a mile, it starts to feel as if my pores are stopped up, as if I am dying to sweat. Honestly, it is about three degrees warmer than my usual pool, so you wouldn't think it was a big deal, but it is a huge deal.

Swim workout as follows:

• 20 minute warm up
• 8 x 50
• 2 x 400
• 3 x 300

So not a very long swim, but I did get it in and made it to my hair appointment on time.

Clearly, the most important thing!!

Pics of me and Ivan and me and Ashley this morning at the hike.