and I was runnnningg!

I did my best Forrest Gump around the neighborhoods of Menlo Park, Atherton, and Redwood City, covering about 7.5 miles in just over an hour, and the best part was that the "back" was as fast as the "out". Or maybe it's not the best part - if I'm that consistent, does it mean that I'll never get any faster?

Got my hiney kicked at yesterday's swim practice. We did a "golf swimming" drill, in which we added the time in seconds it took to complete a lap to the number of strokes used in swimming that lap - lowest score wins. I was proud to be consistently about 8 points ahead of (ie. worse than) anybody else in my group. The coach was a bit perplexed - this was after he had said that my kick was pretty good and that I had "nice hip rotation." Hmmm... He blamed my baggy shorts, and the pounds of water I drag along with me in the water. Watch out world - it's speedos for me from now on! What a treat. To me, the shorts hypothesis is unlikely - I'm thinking it's those noodles attached to my shoulders where most people have arms.

Sunday weekly total: 4500 yards swimming, 132 miles biking, 11 miles running. Getting better, but also getting a bit surprised at how much time this all takes! Thanks to all of y'all for the donations and support - what donations, you ask?