Obstacles

Ok, had a "few" obstacles for training this week:

• First I missed Monday's swim due to a work meeting.
• Tuesday, I had a run with a friend at lunch and almost threw up because...
• I think I'm getting sick
• Flew out Wednesday to Chicago for work
• Realized that I packed my swimsuit (yeah), but I forgot to pack my goggles and swim cap (boo)
• Because of this, I had to walk 10 blocks Wednesday night, in Chicago's (sticky) lovely streets to purchase, these goggles (that or nothing, guess I should have gone with nothing):
• Got a blister walking 10 blocks in Chicago's (sticky) lovely streets because I insisted on wearing my new (cute) espadrilles
• Ate yummy Italian food and drank some lovely Oregon wines (training) for dinner.
• Woke up Thursday... walked across the street to Lake Michigan and walked up to the first man in a wetsuit I found to ask about the swim route.

• Wetsuit Man said to me, "If you're a good swimmer (as he looked at my ginormous goggles), you can go out to the second buoy and back to get 1 mile in"
(I mean, my big sunglasses can't even compare to the goggles!)


• Picking up his hint, I explained I left my equipment at home...
• And because he's from Chicago and a triathlete, he sweetly went back to his bag and offered backup goggles to me to borrow

Quick side note: Let me tell you something about me.... I'm a germaphobe. My nieces and nephews call me "Auntie Biotics" because I do Ironmans but am fearful of hotel rooms.

• So it was surprising even to me, that I accepted his kind gesture.
• ... and I swam my mile! BAM! How you like them apples??

Proof: That's me!


Thanks Chi-Town for lovely weather, fabulous food (!), an amazing lake to swim in and super friendly people whom I wanted to hang out with all day but couldn't... I was there for work after all!

Goldilocks Update: He continues to carry around his Total Immersion book... However, today he actually headed over to the pool at lunch to swim! Or at least, he attempted to head to the pool... Due to a traffic collision (see enclosed traffic log - sent to Adult Supervision and I from Goldilocks) on the 405 that took up 20 minutes, he couldn't afford getting into the pool to swim for 45 minutes on his hour lunch break. We gave him points on the attempt...

(...and laughed that he went through the trouble of tracking down the traffic report, sending it to us so that we would know a legitimate reason "why" he didn't get in the pool... again!)

I don't know why I'm making fun of him, I basically wrote a whole blog entry on goggles...