Day Eighty-One

Bike make up swim

I went to the east bay to watch Madeline complete her first half marathon.  Since I was there I decided to do my training in a new area.

I swam in lake anza.  Kinda strange set up.  There are lines marking off a large rectangle.  The kids playing in the water are kept to the shallow area but I could swim out a little farther and do laps.  They say the laps are 40 m.  I was out for 45 minutes.  The water was warm but murky and lots of plants growing, which freaks me out.  There was also a sign up for 'swimmers itch.'  Which is the result of something with the snails in the water.  That kind of thing gets in your head and I kept feeling itchy as I was swimming.  Now I think it was for good reason because I have many many bits all over my body.  Itchy bites.  I will not be swimming there again.

I cycled in the area as well.  Nice for a change.  I rode for about 20 minutes and my big chain ring stopped shifting.  AND it stopped inbetween gears.  I rode the rest of the 1:40 using four gears in an unknown area.  It worked and I got back to my car, but not without plenty of worry.  Worry that my bike would stop and worry that I would have too much pride to call my dad so would walk for miles on old country roads.  Good think I did not check but I did not even have signal during the ride so I would have definitely been stuck walking.

The good news is that I rode downhill more comfortably than I have in a long time.  Maybe because I was listening to music and that loosened me us. I have never used music on the bike before.  Second great thing was that I got that great hot sweaty ride in.  Where we live I never get that and I miss it.