Swim: 3:34 (about 6 feet of actual swimming)
Bike: 1:47:02 (26.02 miles)
Run: 1:17:25 (7.5 miles)

Yes. That is 3 minutes and 34 seconds. That was all I could stand!

I was so ready to swim today, too. No nerves at all, except as we got closer to Seward Park. It wasn't swim nerves, either. It was "I thought it was going to be warmer and did that sign just say it was only 46??" nerves.

Holy mother of our dear Lord Jesus Christ our savior..it was cold. It made Moses Lake feel like a hot springs.

Of course I have only a sleeveless wetsuit, no gloves, no booties. The water temperature, according to their site from yesterday, was 53. That is just WRONG!

I got in and waded out. Okay. Cold. Very cold. My mind was still able to form single syllable words. Tried to acclimate. Yeah, that wasn't happening. So I put my arms in. One fell off with a thud. Reattached it and decided to start swimming. Noticed that my muscles did not respond to the order to "put face in water and stroke". Cheryl, in the meantime, is saying "YOu don't have to do this! If it's too cold, don't swim."

Well I wanted to at least give it the college tri. I finally put my face in (I think my nerve conduction had slowed to the point where it took a full minute to get from the "put face in water" order to the actual face-putting). I decided I'd swim back towards shore and if it was horrendous, I'd just stop.

Swam a few strokes. Okay, it's horrendous but I might be able to do this. Turned around and started swimming to the buoy when WHAMMO! Suddenly my head felt like I'd power slammed a Slurpee! I mean it was INSTANT brainfreeze!

I stood up so fast I think my face fell off. It was frozen, so I'm not sure.

"Nope! Can't do it! Is my head split open because I can't feel my brain?"

Waded back to the shore where I proceeded to try to change as quickly as my frozen hands would allow.

By about mile six I had feeling in my legs again. Good thing my feet were clipped in because I couldn't feel them AT ALL! My hands didn't do so badly. I had hand warmers in my gloves, so the main hand part was all good. One pinky didn't thaw until the run, though.

Nice ride around Mercer Island. I was intentionally not pushing it since um...I'm supposed to be tapering. Knees felt okay, not great, but okay. I refuse to be worried about that.

Got lost twice, so did a tad extra mileage. LOL! The second time Cheryl was right behind me and instead of going up Irving and turning left onto Lake Washington Blvd, I went straight across into the tunnel. Got to the other side and said, "This is not right!"

Oh well. I have the dumb.

On the run I thought I'd cut it short in the Seward Park area so I went past the well marked turnaroud. I guess I didn't.

Run felt okay. Not great until the last two miles. I just don't find my mojo sometimes until the fifth mile! The last two were nice, although my body said "Hey, you said I was only running seven miles!" at mile 7 and wanted to slow down. Fortunately a good song came on.

My marathon is a week from today... I need to learn what the word taper means.