Surf's up

I changed my ticket.  I don’t have to work until Saturday and the Northwest though filled with the best of the west, also sounds really cold.  I'm coming home Wednesday!  I’ve been in love with long hot rides and runs here.  I am still struggling with swimming in this surf.  It’s been huge since I arrived.  When I get full of salt water I chicken out and take my snorkel.  The waves are crazy huge today.  22 foot.  We went this morning to watch them and they are sending 30 foot plumes of water straight in the air when they hit the rocks.  Beautiful!
 With the changed ticket and huge surf I’ve jimmied the training a bit, I’m swimming in the pool today which will be nice to get into the rhythm of things without getting slapped around quite as much my the awesome ocean.  I’ve been doing a great ride up Hualalai through flowers, wet smells, mists, coffee shacks, and little doggies.  I’ve worked in a few more Mana Road runs which are five star.  Some good beach days and tomorrow is another long bike ride out the Ironman route.  Training here is a dream.  No wonder the triathletes here are jacked.  I have been sleeping a lot which is new, and eating like a beast.  I’m still nervous for the race, but feeling like I’m making progress.  I had my first Ironman anxiety dream the other night.  I missed the start and realized the race was now, not in five months.
 It’s been a wonderful week beyond jock tock too.  Visits with friends, wine coolers at the beach, playing in the waves, playing with babies, waking up to whales, lilikoi and coffee in bed, working in the garden, swimming with Opa, hiking neked, finding a perfect cow skull, making banana bread, eating avocados as big as my head, and soaking in the warm beauty that cradles me here.