Maybe this is a reaction to missing the STP. nah
Maybe this is the start of a mid-life crisis. nah nah
Maybe this is some kind of reverse-dare where I dare myself without provocation. no comment
If you know me…and I am pretty sure that you do otherwise you would be all like
Woops, I spelled ‘belief’ wrong.
and be gone before you ever got this far.
So, as a knower of me, you are at least familiar with my relationship with dare. Not just any ‘ol Tom, Dick, or Harry-dare (or would that be Tom, Jack, or Derriere…never-mind) but a dare that speaks to me…you know. A dare that has legs, one that comes from the heart, means something, and has (all important characteristic) a reason behind it.
I don’t jump off buildings into swimming pools or ride shopping carts down hills for TV, that’s just stupid, save that lunacy for Jack Derriere.
* But I will swat at a honey bee to prove to my younger brother that I am faster than a bee-sting: reverse-dare style.
* Or accompany friends to a 35 foot overpass to watch them jump into the lake and then show them how it’s done…alone: reverse-dare style.
* Or convince a friend that she was Princess Leia and I was Luke and I could easily hold on to the rope with my strong hand, hold her with the other, and swing into the river: revers – well that wasn’t reverse-dare style but it had reasoning.
There is always reasoning; maybe some tongue-hanging “didja see that” glory, a little bit of wacky-ness. I am playing this up too much, get to the point, Okay?
Ok, so it didn’t take much this time but there was reasoning, that’s all. One call to Bastelyon and we had it worked out. Ya see, he has been trying to make me run his first marathon with him…in November.
HA! a marathon? Hey, I said REASONING c’mon!
So here’s what I reverse-dare styled him to get me to do with him, with me:
I will run 3 miles with him if he will bike 12 miles with me and we both try to keep from drowning swim in the lake for a quarter mile, in succession. I think we can do it, and…well, we’re gonna Tri.
blief 
You’re going to swim 1/4 mile in the lake…in November? That’s crazy!
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Hey, the Kirkland tri-athelon is scheduled for September 20! Are you doing a different tri-athelon?
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Sorry, little confusion there.
The marathon that I am NOT running in is in November. I’ll watch thanks.
The triathlon that I AM registered for is in September. The lake is expected to be 70° F at that time.
Still, swimming at 7AM sounds cold.
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Happy training!!!
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Wearing a wetsuit will make you float high on the surface. Your feet will tend to come up out of the water and splash a lot. The hardest part about swimming in an open lake is the waves. You don’t get waves like that in a swimming pool, so that might come as a surprise, except at 7:00 AM the water will most likely be calm…which is good.
If the water is smooth, keep your head down and breathe from behind the little wave coming off your head…every stroke. Don’t kick too hard, so you can rest your legs for the other two parts of the tri-athelon. If your arms get tired from one stroke, switch to another stroke, but don’t stop moving.
If you feel a tug on your leg, it’s just a great white shark biting your leg off. Keep swimming or he’ll come back to eat the rest of you.
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Re: Bopop’s comment:
Spoken like one who has “been there; done that”! And his partner in the swim grew up to become a U.S. Navy SEAL!
If the triathelon is in the order you cited, i.e., run, bike, swim, you will do fine! You’ll be nice and hot from the previous exercise and the lake will feel “refreshing”.
Besides you come from tough (read: “stubborn”) Norwegian and German stock, tempered with Scottish and “who-knows-what-all-else” hardiness!
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