Seeing Stars

They are everywhere!

Yesterday morning on our pre-swim walk, Izzy and I saw Orion rising out of the eastern horizon. In college, MWF were 6 am weights, and I often saw Orion on my walk across town to meet the ski team to pump iron. I hadn't realized that the end of summer was so near, but Orion is telling me otherwise. Many, many memories flooded over me when I noticed his appearance.

As E already noted, we had a tough swim session yesterday morning. I was huffing and puffing. Each set of 200's were on a faster interval (our lane cheated, though, and kept the same interval for the 4 and 3 repeat sets). My legs kept getting heavier and heavier, but I fought hard, held pace, and made every interval. Gold star for me! I then became a heap of tiredness at work, but I was at my desk most of the day, so no worries.

Then later, near the top of Lee Hill Road and Deer Trail, I was seeing stars again. The air gets thin up there, I swear! E still beat me up, but I think I'm getting closer. One last hill climb before IM Canada, and it was a good one.

Our evenings have been filled with chores and watching the Olympics. The chores are just reality, but the Olympics have been awesome, inspiring, star-studded event after event.

And finally, this morning, I made it out of bed, got in another quality walk with Izzy, and then slipped on my new, fancy point 6 socks and did a nice fartlek run with E to work. We saw no stars. We probably earned some, it was a good, fast, expertly executed run. The feet felt light, and I think I may actually survive taper this year. It is starting out well, but may be too soon to say for certain......