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Tomorrow morning, The "Slacker Triathletes" (Bill, Erika, Sandra, and Me) — essentially members of the Oregon State Triathlon Team who find it impossible to rise three days a week for a 6 am swim workout, and instead choose to torture ourselves with non-freestyle swimming at a OSU Masters class during the lunch hour instead of eating — will take on several other teams for a continuous, relay-style 30-minute to swim to see who can do the most laps.  Our strategy... repeat 25 yds. with ~one minute rest (while others are swimming).

The swim-a-thon is to raise money for a fund that supports exercise physiology research at OSU that was established by our swim coach, Bill Winkler, from savings he kept from working for OSU for over 50 years! Check out details on the race at Swim4 Health website.   If you would like to help us out by donating to the fund (you can still do so even after the event), you can send money via credit card at: Swim4Health or donate with cash or checks payable to: "OSU Foundation" with the memo "Bill and Judy Winkler Fund".

So, pre-race meal:  a little Green Curry, Full Sail Amber, and some fried ice cream at the Woodsman (a roadside-dive-turned-Thai-American restaurant where you can get anything from cheese burgers to rice noodles).