Thursday Update

Team In Training, originally uploaded by eyllom.

Wow - weird week! This is week 17, the final week, of training. Well, training isn't quite the right word as we are "tapering" and that means reducing our workouts prior to the race.

What's weird is that we're wrapping up a lot of the things we've done over the past 4 months. We've gotten all the clothing and wetsuit orders worked out. We've reached the point where we can comfortably do the triathlon. We've had our last Saturday practice, our team send-off party (pictured above) and our last Wednesday night practice. We've had our last post-swim dinner.

At swimming practice last night we did about half our usual drills and then met in the shallow end. Another TnT team (training for the Treasure Island tri in SF) joined us. We formed two lines and everyone got a paddle and started making waves. Then, two-by-two, the people on the end ditched their paddles and swam down the middle. We did this about three times. It was actually pretty intense - everyone was yelling and whistling and the water was sloshing terribly. Quite the send-off!

Now all that is left is to do easy exercises to stay loose and meet-up on Saturday to maybe do an ocean swim, pick-up our packets, and head to the hotel in Santa Monica, then meet at 4:30am in the lobby for the bus ride to the Tri. A bit sad really that it's all coming to an end.

But this weekend will Rock!