I'm tired. It was a long day of training and since I didn't rest yesterday on my "rest" day I'm feeling it today. Tomorrow won't be so tough, just an OWS and an hour run. I feel so confused about swimming. Am I dropping my elbow? Am I dragging my feet? Am I kicking too wide. Oy veh! So many things to think about. I just swam and swam today though, or at least it felt like it. Didn't take much rests between sets. At one point for about 1/4 of my workout I had the entire 9 lane pool to myself -- truly heaven. Blue sky, little white wispy clouds. Very nice. And, then some kids and their mom got into the lane next to me. Granted, the kids had flippers on, but they blew by me. They were only doing 25's also and I was in the middle of my 300's, but geeezzz...Maybe I should change my name to turtle...but wait, turtles are faster in the water, so even that moniker won't work. Oh well. I"m doing what I can.

Gotta go to the store and to pick up the bi-weekly organic veggies and then fix some din-din.

Made the first page of the results for the 10K. I am really happy to see such progress. Last year my time for this was 1:04! They have me here at 2 seconds faster than my Garmin. I'm okay with that. :) And, I've not been tapering. I rode 40 miles on Saturday. Not sure how much difference that would make if I had rested beforehand. This is all part of my training for HIM. I love running. So weird still, but I'm getting used to hearing that thought and emotion come from me.

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
– T.S. Eliot

I need to eat more than I did before this run. About halfway through I just felt deflated, not defeated, but deflated. Lost my energy and so slogged the rest and made it home to help son get ready for Famous American day. He's dressed in DH's suit and wore an old flannel shirt under it instead of a nice dress shirt. ??? Anyway, the clothes fit him better than I thought they would. He is growing/has grown so much in the last 6 months. I'm living with two guys -- not a kid and a man anymore.

Note: Eat more before running. My PB toast is the bomb and I just grabbed a handful of granola and 1/4 banana. Good lesson to learn.

Swim on tap for later.

Trainer ride today. I think I did about 10 or 11 of these between getting home from work and picking up the carpool. Then had open house at son's school. Basically went and thanked the teachers for a good year. Son stayed at home and worked on homework. Last time at this school. He moves on to HS next year. His promotion ceremony is in a couple of weeks. DH gets home tomorrow and I'm sure he'll be beat. I think he'll have been travelling for 20 hours or something like that. Ick!

I'm starting to get excited for the Iron Girl 10K on Sunday. We get these cool Aflac ducks. (See photo above) You squeeze them and they say Aaaaflaaack about three times. Lots of good swag at this race. I'm hoping for a PR. I've improved a lot since last year. As long as I don't trash my legs on my long ride scheduled for Saturday.

Right as I was walking down to the cove, I noticed a fin in the water. I thought at first it might be the flipper from a diver or snorkeler. There weren't that many people in the water. Then I saw it again. Then a little closer to the swimming lane I saw two and then three fins. Three dolphin made their way across the cove out to open water. It was so calm and peaceful the way they come up, arc and then go under only to rise again 20 feet or so farther away.

I got in the water shortly afterwards and thought about the dolphin much of the swim. What a magnificient sight. There were also sea lions or seals (always get them confused) over by the caves and a friend said one was swimming with them today. Maybe the strange weather we had today brought the dolphin closer to shore. It actually hailed and we had thunder and lightening. Very, very rare for a June day in Southern California. Nice friends in the water, of the two-legged kind and great scenery and vibe today. Water was 64 to 67 and smooth, light surge and 10 to 15 feet visibilty. Saw a few girabaldi (the orange fish).

Trail run was okay. I turned the wrong way and ended up going up and down some pretty steep hills. So steep that I didn't dare try and actually run down them for fear of slipping on the rocks and dirt. I'm calling this the poop trail run because I saw so many kinds of excrement...dog, horse, bird. Thankfully, didn't step in any and didn't have any dropped on me.

No track for son. I think his season may be over. Aside from his total lack of motivation, he has inherited ingrown toenails from the other side of his genetic makeup :) and will have a surgery to have those removed at the end of the month.