Just another day at sea. I went up to the bridge after lunch with another "Sailor of the Day". Worked on some awards for a while, then briefed to go flying. It was a busy 2 1/2 hour flight, during which we practiced several emergency procedures. Busy flights are good because they go by quickly. Not that I dislike flying, mind you. It's just that there is not much for us to do "operationally" while in plane guard, so things that keep us busy are good. After the flight, I enjoyed some dinner (leftover mac n cheese and chicken parmesean) and then finished up the awards that were due today. I had it in my brain to do a nice slow and "easy" one hour run tonight.
I finally got the treadmill moving around 2230, and by 20 minutes into the run (at a 9:30 /mi pace) I knew there was no way I would make it an hour. Between the humidity and my tight legs from the intervals the last two days, I found it hard to hard to do what I would have once called a "stretch out" run. So, I listened to my body and called it a night at 30 minutes. Today was supposed to be easy anyway.
I haven't talked with Janell about it yet (never a good way to start a public conversation by the way...), but I'm hoping to run two triathlons at the end of the "season" after I get home. Long Beach Tri is the 23rd of September. It's a sprint course (500m swim (.5 mi), 20 km (12.4 mi) bike, and 5 km (3.1 mi) run) at Long Beach harbor near Spruce Goose. I would also love to run the Catalina Tri on Nov 3. Getting the whole Zoo out to the Island may prove to be too difficult and expensive, but I'm going to give it a shot. I think that would be a blast. Again, it's a sprint course. The next step up is "Olympic" distance which is a 1.5 km (.9 mi) swim, 40 km (24.8 mi) bike and 10 km (6.2 mi) run. Maybe next summer. I need a lot more swim time before I'm ready for that distance. I finished my first triathlon last year, the Los Angeles Tri, in September. I had a great time!
The girls all came up and cheered me on. Unfortunately, the two transition zones, between the swim and bike and the bike and run were in two different locations and they had to drive to meet me, missing the second transition and most of the run (even on Sunday morning, traffic in downtown LA is terrible). The swim was at Venice Beach, the bike followed Venice Blvd, Sunset Blvd, and Hollywood Blvd to downtown, then the run was a very hilly loop in downtown, passing the Disney concert hall. I'm definitely hooked on the sport. But the swim workouts are tough to come by out here on the ship. Surrounded by water -- nowhere to swim. So, I run in place, I bike to nowhere, and I row the ship for the fun of it.
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Doing the Tri's when you get home sounds great! My only concern about the Catalina tri is: How are we going to get the trailer over there??? :)
~J
That sounds like a good time.
J: you could "engineer" some pontoons to the trailer, the power it with "giggle" power. That has to be better than a Nuclear reactor.
S: I am going to sign up with a co-worker to run in the Army 10-miler in October. We are going to start our SLOW training next week. I'm excited. I have found someone with my work schedule that I can run with. I'm not going to go for the Gold, but I'm going to shoot for 10 min/mile or better.
I would bet you keep rowing your "boat" in BIG circles. You should try to row harder on the other side.
R:
I'm sitting here looking at some empty priority mail boxes in my office. Is there a kind of non-melty candy that you'd like me to send? A few thoughts: More gummy bears, worms, insects, or fish? Abbazabba? Big Hunk? Hard Candy? Life Savers? Twizzlers or other "licorice" sticks. I think Somis Nut House has "licorice" type sticks in a variety of flavors, both sweet and sour patch variety. Sour patch kids or other sour candy? Also, I can get things like p'nut butter pretzels and sturdy cookies at Trader Joes. Tell me what you want and I'll try to find it. If you don't tel me, I'll surprise you.
That's really funny when you commented... it's never a good idea to start a public conversation...
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