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First Miracle of 2007

I did not, in fact, die of embarrassment at swim training last week! You can see my Triathlon training update at Mamas In Training.

But while I’m at it, here are a few things I learned at the pool last week…

1. A Swim Cap does not keep your hair dry. It keeps your stupid hair out of your eyes and mouth.
2. Swimming is a SERIOUS calorie burner. If you swim and then don’t eat for, say, seven hours you will get a blindingly painful headache.
3. Even in the dead of winter, pack some damn flip flops in your gear bag. Walking barefoot through the gym from the pool to the locker room because your feet are wet and you don’t want to put on your socks and sneakers doesn’t make you an athlete. It makes you white trash.

Up For a Swim?

Oh. Well. CRAP. I did not realize when I agreed to do a Triathlon with my employers that I would have to show up in the dead of winter in a bathing suit to train for the swimming portion of the race. I don’t know why that fact didn’t ring big ‘ol loud warning bells in my head. I thought I would be able to die of bathing suit mortification in the privacy of my very own community aquatics center. I was under the impression that the only time my dang bosses would see me in my swimsuited glory would be on race day.

I was wrong.

They will see me in my pasty white glory approximately 25 hours from now. Oh and to top of the hotness, we’ll be training in super cool swim caps. Maybe I’ll get really lucky and find a swim cap is some god-awful color that will attract attention AWAY from my thighs…perhaps one with blinking LED lights and a propeller. That would definitely do the trick.