swim bike run

and there was much rejoicing back home in the tarheel nation...roy williams is coming home. i know mom, grandmother, and brian are happy today.

yesterday was great. it was beautiful outside, so i left work at 3:00, spent an hour sunning myself by the pool, spent another hour reading in the shade of my balcony, and even went swimming for half an hour.

see, i have decided to do a triathlon in austin on june 8. i've always wanted to do a triathlon, but only recently felt like i might actually be in good enough shape to complete one. so i signed up for an all-women "sprint" triathlon (half mile swim, 12 mile bike, 5k run) that is supposed to be very friendly to first-timers. rich's girlfriend emily has done it before, and i think she's in about the same physical condition as me, so i feel confident. i estimate that it will take me somewhere between 2 and 2.5 hours to finish. debbie's going to do it, and probably buzz, and maybe becca, so i'll have company.

i have less than two months to train. i'm not worried about the biking or the running because 12 miles isn't that far on a bike, and i've done a lot of 5k races already. so i know i can make those distances, even if i'm tired. i am most anxious about the swimming. i know i can swim half a mile, but probably not very fast, and i've never swum in a crowd of people in open water before. it should be interesting. the best i can do is swim laps in the lap pool at my apartment complex, which simulates the distance but doesn't match the churning waters of a lake with hundreds of racing swimmers. but i'm going to swim in the lap pool anyway, to prepare as best i can.

this afternoon gavin and i are giving a presentation on our debris footprints to all the people who work in flight design over at usa. then tonight i have softball practice and volleyball. whew!