Less than 100 days!!!!

We have less than 100 days until Ironman Madison. As I'm sitting here writing my blog entry, I was thinking that I will be hopefully further than the half way point on the run portion of Ironman Madison! Okay-I going to start my first freak out!

Today I met my friend Margarita for my first open water swim of the season. Prior to me getting there, some other swimmers (assuming triathletes) got caught swimming across Lake Nokomis and were ticketed so we had decided not to chance it. A $350 ticket or more triathlon gear-we chose more triathlon gear! We ended up swimming the length of the swimming area back and forth for about 45 minutes.

The water was a bit chilly getting in but nice once we got started swimming. After we swam we hung out on the beach to dry off and feel the last projected rays of sun over the next couple of days.

Wednesday was the first National Day of Running and of course sponsored some running events. I was interested to know that people at the Coon Rapids club had already logged over 40 miles before the first organized run of the day-they had two. It was fun to hang out with the run club on Wednesday! I attended both run sessions logging almost 10 miles of running that day. Prior to my runs I got a chance to hand out and educate people on Aquaphor.

Yesterday I trained with P2. We started off with a 60 minute easy ride and then headed back to St. Thomas for transition practice with the team. Coach had us line up and counted as we practiced putting on our helmets and shoes-aaaahhhhh! We then practiced running and mounting our bikes-AAAAHHHH!!!! Then we practiced tightening our shoes while in motion on the bike-AAAAHHHH!!!! Finally, it was taking our shoes off while biking-AAAHHHH!!!! I avoided crashing my bike into a parked car or tipping over but I don't know that it was any faster!

We then finished our workout with a short 15 minute easy run.