I sucked it up and went for a quick open water swim this afternoon. The swim went pretty well and it was good to bust out the wet suit again. However, I did learn a few important lessons:
1. Swimming with your lab closely mimics the chaos of a crowded race start, except with much more hair and it's hard to draft off someone swimming the doggy paddle.
2. Check your Garmin 305 (or equivalent) for cracks lest you want water to leak into the screen despite the fact you have NEVER swam with it before, causing the screen display to disappear even though you can still hear it turning on and off, and bringing you poorly timed stress 9 days before your first half ironman.
3. Check the time and day of the week such that the tsunami alarm test that occurs every Wednesday at 2:00 doesn't go off in the middle of our swim scaring the ever loving crap out of you in the middle of a lake.
4. Bring a better camera than the one in your husband's mobile phone.
5. Have fun and don't forget to breath.
Happy 4th of July everyone!!!
Making it happen,
Bree (and Jitney)
I didn't know Garmins were waterproof!!!
ReplyDeleteOne should always swim with the doggies, that video was hilarious!
Oh, that looked like just way too much fun -- for both of you!
ReplyDeleteI love it! nothing like a simulated race start...noise, thashing, and splashing. great video.
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