Vacation!

Last week we made our annual trek to Cannon Beach, Oregon to spend time with our extended family. The weather, as usual, was perfect - sunny and reasonably warm for May. 

The night before we left we went for another swim in the pond. Dan’s family came along to watch and also be available in a canoe in case we needed any help. I got a little more practice with the front crawl this time, but it still was a real struggle. It’s much harder to breathe out there and I don’t know if it’s the wetsuit constricting my lungs or the cold or maybe both things combined. Dan discovered that he tends to head left when he swims. So I’ll stay to his right out there. We did probably half our race distance and I was just exhausted when we were done!

At the beach, we enjoyed lots of good food, karaoke and other crazy games, a visit to the tide pools, shopping and even rented some cool three wheel bikes to ride on the hard sand. We all enjoyed doing cookies and racing each other along the beach!  

Dan and I went for a 10k run along the beach one morning while the wind was calm.  It was absolutely beautiful and if felt great to run at sea level!

But we’re back to reality now. The kids are finishing up school, we are back to work and hitting training HARD! Just over 4 weeks left to go until our event! And I still don’t know about open water swimming. We head for the pond tomorrow evening to get in some more practice. 

-- JAM