Sorry to have been lax with the updates. I’ve been waiting for something seemingly noteworthy about which to blog, and though something cool or interesting happens each day, often times they tend to just be details of the day and nothing I think anyone would be interested in. But since it’s been a while since I’ve written anything, I thought I’d just review the details of today.

My most faithful companion of late has been Brandon DelCampo… I love this crazy amigo of mine!

So today… weeeeshhh. Brandon talked me into swimming at FlatIrons at 10am Masters. BDC doesn’t wake up early, so 10a was the plan. “We’ll ride after we swim”, he said. About 9:20a I mounted my valiant steed and biked the 7 miles to FAC.

I am so out of shape that I actually swam in BDC’s lane (!!!). A 7-month pregnant Monica Byrn was in our lane, too … the girl was dusting us, pregnant! I kept...

The view….

Here is the view from one of Stoner’s decks….
Aaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh….

It is WINNNNNNNNNNNDDDDDDDYYY!!!!!!!!! in Boulder!
I am not complaining… I’ll take 80 degrees with no humidity, even with gale force winds, any day over the east coast summer scorcher-fest.
Still, it has been a bit scary… the winds have been GUSTS, howling and everything blown all about.

Today my day began with a 2k swim, per boundary set by Bob. I am allowed to swim up to 2k, but I have to do all open turns. Ggrrrr. I never realized how disruptive open turns are to consistent swimming. I encourage anyone who hasn’t yet learned how to do a flip turn to absolutely invest in this process. While, true, there are no open water turns in triathlon, there is a swim in triathlon – and flip turns are very helpful to the flow of your swimming stroke in practice. I am fully realizing this now that I can’t do them.

So, it was only me and another swimmer in the pool at FlatIrons. It was so windy out...

OW Swim at the Res

I am so bummed! I forgot to bring my camera – and there were such awesome picture opp’s, too!

Tonight Simon Lessing and Monica (Caplan) Byrn were leading an open water clinic for the 5430 race series sprint scheduled for this upcoming weekend. Barry (5430 series RD) asked if I would mind coming to lend a hand in case there was an overflow of people; he also asked my friends Justin Daerr, Mark Van Akkeren and Brooke Davison to help out – so this would be SO MUCH FUN! At 5:30p I biked on over to the Res for the 6pm clinic (a 5-mile bike from my front door… damn I love this no-driving thing in Boulder!). I didn’t count but there looked to be about 100 folks there for the clinic? Awesome. I was in the group with Simon and Justin; Mon, Mark and Brooke were in the other group.

It was a great clinic with good jokes mixed with informative stuff for the athletes as they prepared for their sprint race. We worked on...

The beauty of Boulder

Way too much has been happening… I’ll try to hit some highlights.

I had my first session with JZ’s physical therapist, Bob Cranny. I have seen so many people for help with my back that I’m sure you can appreciate my reluctance to feel enthusiastic for any new professional on the team. With that said, I truly believe that at SOME point, someone has got to come along who is able to fix me. That is not an intended slam against any of my caregivers. Each person I have seen has given me every ounce of their energy and knowledge … they have helped in every way they knew how, and no one could be more grateful to have their continued vested interest than me. But the fact remains, I am in worse condition, so something isn’t working. I don’t know what, but my progressive slope is in the negative.

I’ll probably write at greater length about Bob in another blog; it seems we’ll be working together...