Two Down One To Go

Saturday was the kickoff to Summer with the Spring Lake Five.  It was a fun race, made better by the fact that I will be collecting a dollar tomorrow at work for beating one of my coworkers.  Now I only beat him by 40 seconds, but every second counts & if this was the Olympics & we were skiing or luging, 40 seconds is a lifetime!

Yesterday I swam in the Navesink, but this time it was for a race, not just swimming with the seaweed!  It was ok, I was still a bit tired from Spring Lake, but I managed to pull it off & do it in a decent time.  I was aiming for 35-40 minutes & finished at 37:55, which was almost 2 minutes faster than the last time I swam this race.  The best part was the turnaround point.  I started to notice that there were a lot of people in kayaks right at the turnaround point, but it seemed weird, as they all had bathing caps on.  Then I stopped, poked my head up & saw that people were actually standing up by the buoy.  It was a sandbar!  Sweet.  Nothing better than a tiny break from swimming, right?  So I walked up to the buoy, touched it & walked back a bit & then was off swimming again.  Honestly, I am not the biggest fan of river swimming, but taking the swim clinic for the past few weeks in the Navesink really made me more at ease.   I am not that worried about San Francisco now.  All I have to do it keep on swimming towards shore, I know I can do it.

This week I have lots of packing & some quick workouts planned.  I already shipped my bike out to California, via UPS, & first thing tomorrow I am going to track where exactly in the US my bike is.  Last I checked it was in Horsham, PA.  It's supposed to arrive the day before I do, lets hope it does!

Thanks everyone for following me this far on this crazy escapade.  I will definitely update everyone on how I do!  Happy Memorial Day!