Racing is awesome. Racing for charity is even better. Racing for charity while wearing the coolest, most ironic and punny swimsuit ever... a picture is worth a thousand words (see above).
I am now the proud owner of an OSU Triathlon swimsuit with the words "Fast Beaver" emblazoned and emboldened across the butt! I earned it by racing a 400 IM and raising a little money for the Swim for Health. We almost reached our goal of $5000... more than last year. So, thanks to everyone for donating their time and money and arm strength. The Tri-ing to Swim-mers finished third in the team competition and did a total of 119 laps in 30-minutes. It might have been 120, but someone (don't know who tat could be) got a little tired of endless freestyle laps and through in some fly. The winning team were a bunch of ringers, even recruiting a champion masters swimmer who could do a 25 yd breast as fast as I swam a 25 yd free (I raced him).
For the next eight days, I am a one-sport athlete who does biking and swimming for cross-training. I'm finding it exceedingly difficult to keep to my marathon taper. Earlier in the week, I turned a 4-mile run into a 6-mile run because I was zoning so much on the way out on an out-and-back run. This morning I was so energized to find a hill near my house for my 4x15 seconds of uphill accelerations that my 3-mile run turned into a 4.65 mile run with some parkore practice. I'm lucky I didn't hurt something.
It's going to be harder to keep to the taper this week-end as I head down to the Umpqua River Valley with all its gnarly single-track, scenic roads, and wineries. Bike-wine tour anyone?
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