- I swam 2.2 miles just before I got on the plane to Tucson last week! The actual non warm up non cool down part was just 1.5 miles, but it did wonders for my swim confidence in preparation for the 2.4 mile Iron distance.
- I loved my time in the SW. I forgot that that's a go-to-get-warm place. After a rough 2am arrival and sleeping without a sleeping bag it was nothing but up and up. There were lunch time bikini pool meetings, running among the saguaro cacti, and camping out in a tent to kick off what I hope to be a tent filled tent season. The course was great, awesome co instructor, great students, and fun folks. I got to swim in an outdoor pool which was a real treat at the Tucson Y.
- I got home Sunday and got to see my step dad and little sister in Portland with Boo and the eager to be born Blueberry baby and Brian. We made pasta and ate fro yo. I love my family.
- Yesterday I got home and Nina visited. It was great friendship update. I rode the trainer and watched Empire Records while she napped. Then we found a bat in the house!
- Good news was: It was so cute! Bad news was: Bats are Oregon's Rabies reservoir, and this batlett was a little wonky. We caught it in a bowl and cookie sheet and took it for a walk while we wondered how to let it go with no risk of contact to it. Our brilliant solution was to set the bowl/cookiesheet on a stump and then from far away throw sticks at it until it toppled and Batty Warbucks was free. Nina and I would probably perish pronto if survival was based on stick throwing skills. So we changed strategies to lifting off the bowl and running. That worked better. The Batlett was free and we were not rabied.
- So it's back to winter today. Nina's hit the road after Kale shakes and I'm off to rainy foggy errands and a swim.
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| Saguaro and a Tree making love on my run |
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