So today, an anonymous person commented on my blog that I should check my registration because I appeared to be registered for the Olympic distance, and not the half-iron distance of the REV 3. Now this is classic Betsy, by which I mean it might have happened before. Maybe, and it might have been more than once that I crawled out the water at a sprint triathlon and thought, "Wow, that swim just did not seem that long, and my watch says that I swam it unusually fast", only to find that I was in a sprint triathlon when I thought I was in an olympic distance. When I say it has happened before, I mean that it has happened twice. Obviously that is two too many. The best thing I can say about this situation is thank goodness a good Samaritan informed me of the situation and prevented me from making it three times that I show up to do the wrong distance.
I must say that I am awash with relief about doing the olympic distance. So thrilled. Pressure is off, friends. It is officially the best Mother's Day ever. 26 miles on the bike suddenly sounds like heaven.
Anyway, Ivan and I made it to the pool this morning in good time (by which I mean 10 minutes late). Workout as follows:
- 4 x 200 swim
- 4 x 50 swim
- 6 x 75 (IM, no freestyle)
- 4 x 25 fast
- 700 kick (how great is that!!!)
- 400 pull
- 400 kick (for cool down)
That was 3050 meters.
At home, I hopped on the bike for a 40 minute trainer ride, then got in a Gilad session and hung out with Ivan until time to go to a jewelry party, where I bought the perfect earrings to get me through summer.
Watching Zombieland. Woody Harrelson has made so many important contributions to film.
1 comment:
Awesome!!! I am doing the Oly as well. Hope you have a wetsuit...we will have a FUN time!! Have you looked at the schedule? There is a practice swim at 10am on Sat. I am going to go up and do that. See you soon!
Jill
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