Friendly Waters

This weekend was busy as usual but we got some great workouts in and a little bit of fun.

Friday

I had the day off on Friday and my intentions were to relax, haa, haa, I'm funny. Relaxing isn't possible in our household. I did a bunch of house chores including washing and putting away laundry and ran a bunch of errands. Next thing I know it was 3pm and it was time for me to leave the house. I had to make a quick trip to the mall, go to the post office to ship my daddy's bday gift and then meet Olivia and Amy for dinner before the EBMUDD free concert at the Blackhawk Plaza. Rocky met us there after work along with a few other friends and we had a great time listening to Ms. Jeanette and the rest of the band. Headed home at 8:30pm and hit the sack for an early morning on Saturday.

Saturday

We were headed back to SF to Aquatic park for our 2nd and last open water swim there. We had a few announcements and a quick clinic first and then it was back into the water. This time it was much much colder. So glad I invested in the booties. It was colder but I did so much better with my swimming this time. I did 35 minutes and made it around twice this time. It wasn't even a mile so I'm still swimming slow in the cold water. Last week I swam a mile in 41 minutes so I have some work to do. I'm bummed we won't be going back to Aquatic Park, sort of, only bummed cause I need the practice, not bummed because we had a little friend their.

Had I knows about our little friend earlier I probably would have FREAKED OUT. I didn't find out about him being there until we were heading home and Amy decided to inform me about him...aaackkkk!!

After our swim we had to get out of the water and stand at the edge of the water in a tight knit group with the rest of our teammates. Coach Paul wanted us to do a mass start to practice what it will be like on race day. This is good practice but ouchie. The first time I did great and managed not to get killed by all the other peeps. The second time I took 2 feet to the throat. One happened to belong to Amy. I almost didn't give her a ride home. Haa, haa. The second belong to a tall guy on the team and his foot connected with my throat. I had to stop and catch my breath. That was not fun.

Then we took a nice group picture.

After the swim and pictures, get the wetsuits off and hang them to start drying while we are off running.


The run for the Olympic team was 60 minutes. The water at Aquatic Park was much much colder this time but the temperature outside was a bit warmer. I again had a great run despite the warmer temperatures but at least I had my electrolytes with me, which I'm loving. Yay for not having a upset belly :o) I'm also loving my Sharkies.

I am noticing that I am doing much better with my running. I ran 5 miles in 1 hour which is actually pretty slow for me BUT I am running the entire time without stopping and I am running up the hills. This is huge progress for me. I just need to pick up the pace a little :o)

After the run we didn't mill around to long since I needed to get home and shower so that Rocky, Olivia and I could head to Sonoma. It was wine pick up weekend.

It was a fun mellow trip up there. We stopped at Cline to grab our wine for this quarter and then decided to head to a couple of new wineries. We only had about 2 hours but we were able to make 2 other wineries for tastings. We went to Mayo and Chateau St. Jean. We actually enjoyed all of the wines at Chateau and the darn great sales man/wine pourer guy sucked us into joining their membership. LOL. Actually I cancelled a membership in Livermore because we just don't enjoy going there as much as Sonoma so this will just replace that one. It's a really pretty winery with great picnic areas and great service. We are looking forward to our trips up there and enjoying their winery and events.

It was dinner time so we headed over to the Sonoma Plaza and had dinner at the Girl and the Fig. It was Olivia's suggestion and once I was in there and saw the menu I realized it was a place that was featured on the Food Network that Rocky and I had wanted to try. We all had a very delicious dinner, it was a great choice and end to the day. Then we headed home :o)

Sunday

Sunday was an early day once again as I had to do a 2 hour 10 minute bike ride. I had decided that the best choice would be to do the ride we've been doing with the team which is from Walnut Creek to right past Blackhawk (Danville). My hubby took the morning off teach Kali so he could ride with me, THANK YOU ROCKY, Amy also joined us. Good thing Rocky was there and good thing Amy decided to ride with us. It was an adventurous morning :o(

We met at the Park-n-Ride parking lot off Rudgear Road and were set to ride at 8am sharp. Another participant on my team, Ben, happened to be there to he joined us. My hubby had agreed not to kill me on the bike by going to fast but it's kind of hard for him to go as slow as me. I'm sure it's just like running, it doesn't feel right. So in the end I was happy that Ben was there and that my hubby was able to ride at a faster pace with him. All was well for the first 14 miles of the ride. We went past Blackhawk and decided to turn around at Highland Road. I was tired from Saturday but still feeling good. I was able to practice drinking and eating while riding and all went well. I didn't tip over :o)

We took a very quick break at the turn-around and I told the boys to go ahead and we'd meet them back at the finish area. The way back is mostly down hill and after a while you have a tailwind so I knew they'd be flying back. I think we made it 4 miles down the raod when all of a sudden I heard a BANG and then PPSSSHHHHHH!!! Yikes Amy had a flat. We stopped to assess the situation and I tried calling the hubby but he didn't hear his phone ring. Left a message that we had stopped to fix a flat. Amy got all her handy dandy tools but when she rotated the tire and saw a 3 inch nail in her tire.

Change of plans, there will be no fixing the flat since the tire had two holes through it. Luckily it all happened when we were back in civilization and there was a Starbuck's near by. We decided that Amy would wait until I finished my ride and Rocky and I could come back and get her in the car. On my way I went and not even 2 miles down the rode I felt that my bike was riding funny. I hadn't heard any weird noises like PPSSSSHHHHH but something was off. I looked down and YIKES, I had a flat back tire :o( urrrggghh.

Called hubby still no answer :o( and left him a message that now I was along the side of the rode with a flat. I called Starbucks where Amy was (she didn't have her cell) so they could give her a message and let her know that I had a flat and she'd have to wait a little longer :o( I started to fix it, good thing we just had a clinic on this, I was doing really well until I went to inflate it and the tube pushed my tire out. I had this issue when I did the tire changing clinic and knew exactly what it was and how to fix it. Only problem was I had used up my CO2 cartridge :o( Luckily by this time I had gotten ahold of Rocky and he was riding back to find me and he had a pump on his bike. Hubby came to the rescue and we were on our way. The rest of the ride was great and I finished 28.40 miles :o) YIPEE! The longest I've ridden this season.

Packed up the car quickly and headed back for to rescue Amy and her bike :o(

Hubby and I were STARVED by this time so after a quick stop by the bike shop to pick up a pump for my bike we had lunch.

The rest of the day was spent on the couch doing NOTHING :o) my kind of Sunday afternoon.