I actually didn't intend to do this swim. Our Tuesday runs have moved from earlyearly morning to afterwork (so much warmer, but less humid, and we often get post-run popsicles), so I expected to be running Tuesday night. Then Karen had a board meeting that evening, so moved our run to the earlyearly morning again. So I could swim. Did I want to ( Read more... )

Month one was popular enough that they did it again! I still don't love the pricing ($20 for a 750 or 1500m swim? There's gotta be more logistics involved for Splash'n'Dash, and it's only $10. Maybe if they can get more people to go, they can bring down the price. Of course, when does anyone ever DECREASE the price of something?) (woah, that was a ( Read more... )

I didn't particularly want to race. I've been having a good run of pretending that racing doesn't exist (as you can tell, based on the tumbleweeds blowing by on my usually-just-race-reports blog). But this was Pure Austin's first open water swim race, hoping to become a series, and I wanted to show my support and boost their numbers ( Read more... )

I was, as usual, not at all into S&D. In fact, by the time I left work, having spent the whole morning doing installs, I probably would have decided to just go do a run on my own, if I hadn't already paid for it. So I had to do it ( Read more... )

Well, these have started back up again. Grumble ( Read more... )

We "missed" the August S&D because we were in Quebec, having just finish an Ironman, but we're given the understand that it was rainy and cool. And September S&D was.. unseasonably cool (80s), meaning that EVERY SINGLE S&D IN 2012 WAS UNSEASONABLY COOL. That's just weird. And maybe it means they should hold more S&Ds ( Read more... )

Unseasonably cool! You wouldn't figure it could happen every single S&D for 2012, but it might be that it's going to happen! Of course, I think it was still probably the hottest S&D so far this year, but maybe low-mid 90s, instead of over 100! We'll take what we can get ( Read more... )