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November 17, 2005
Biking and Swimming
More on the bike theft saga: I ran into the woman whose bike was stolen. When she reported the incident to our school police she found out that the police had her broken lock. Someone had reported the bike theft as a “crime in progress” and when the police showed up they found her lock. The woman I spoke with also ran into a second woman at the police station all decked out bicycling gear-her bike had been stolen the same place, day, and time (around noon). The woman I saw is going to send out an e-mail to the student body regarding the theft and I also e-mailed some of my fellow bikers.
Also related to biking, I am in the school computer lab right now and a few moments ago I was reading blogs. I read some tri blogs. Today one had pictures. Big ones. Of bikes. One guy was apparently reading over my shoulder and asked, “Do you bike?” [My reply, “Um…yes?” I mean, this random guy doesn’t want to hear the whole saga of how I mostly run but get hurt and I use my bike to commute but I don’t really train with it like anyone who asks ‘Do you bike?' certainly trains.] He does. He does triathlons. [At this point I said, “Me too. Oh, well not really. I mean, I did one. But I want to do more.] I feel like you can’t really define my workout habits. I do more than run, but I am hardly a triathlete. Anyway, this guy has a road bike. He had an older second bike but then his friend borrowed it and threw it off of a balcony when he got drunk. Really.
I went swimming today. My workout completely died at the end. I was laughing to myself how badly it went from 22-28 minutes. I swam crawl for 18 minutes and practiced flip turning which went okay. Then I did some 50 yard sprints for four minutes. Then it died. I got tired of sprinting so I started doing regular laps again. I stopped to do some stretches. I swam a couple of laps. My goggles hurt. I stretched some more. I don’t usually stop when I swim (that’s probably bad, but I don’t usually do workouts, just laps) but I was completely stopping. I let my watch run while I was stretching. It was just ridiculous. I finally got out of the pool and went to school. I figured out (from my pool punch card-I have pre-purchased swims) that I have been swimming 11 times since September 1. That stat doesn’t mean anything in particular to me. I just think it’s cool I can keep track. My goal was to finish the card by the end of year which means 6 more swims before i leave town around dec 23ish. I am so on track for that.
Posted by Audrey at November 17, 2005 05:06 PM
Comments
I noticed your Blog from a comment you left on Chocolate Runner's Blog. So now you've been NOTICED! :-)
Posted by: *jeanne* at November 17, 2005 09:20 PM
Hey! You've been to MY Blog already!
You miss the Tidal Basin 3Ks! I just did one yesterday, and then took those pics afterward (actually I took some pics DURING the race, too...but that's only ONE reason I'm slow. The main reason is: I'm just SLOW! LOL!)
Posted by: *jeanne* at November 17, 2005 09:33 PM