My apartment is fun, and surprisingly quite cool. We live on the top floor of our building, and last year when I had the same floor and room in a different building, it was always sweltering hot. Thankfully this year it is much cooler and therefore more bearable.
My schedule is pretty lax for school, and I have no classes on Friday as I mentioned. Otherwise, I have two classes on Monday, one on Tuesday, two on Wednesday, and two on Thursday. And none before 11AM any day. I am the king of scheduling.
Last weekend Tom and I went down to Plymouth, MA to compete in our first olympic distance triathlon, the Mayflower Triathlon. It went very well, and tired me out much more than the Timberman. The 1 mile swim seemed to take forever and by the time I got out of the water I had swallowed enough salt to keep me going for the remainder of the race, and was dizzy enough that I almost fell back into the water after climbing up onto the dock. My brain was not firing on all cylinders into t1, so I just went on autopilot. It didn't take long to strip my wetsuit, and I jumped on my bike, got my foot in the pedals, and was off. 28 miles later (yeah, it was supposed to be 30) and after almost crashing into the sidewalk going about 13mph to the amusement of Tom, I headed out on the run, feeling like I was going to hurl once again... by the time I hit mile 4 out of 6.5, I started to feel good and pick up the pace, wondering how long it would be until Tom caught me. Strangely enough, it never happened, and I later learned it was because he got lost twice on the run. I finished with a time of 2:36:47, with a 29:48 1 mile swim time, 2:36 t1 time (we had to run from the water to t1), 1:15:52 for the bike, :39 for t2, and 47:54 for the run. I placed 11th overall, 1st in my age group, and had the 4th fastest bike split in the race. Some pictures below, again taken by my parents.
Alright, off to run. Hope everyone is doing well.
