Going Just Fine

I'm not sure how, but my athletes and I began to create rapper names, sometime this ... or maybe last year. We've got Ja Boon, The Wev, Amy-Mo, K-Dub, I have had a few and my most recent is M-Squared.

Ja Boon and M-Squared met at the YMCA this morning for a swim. The YMCA truthfully is my back up pool, as the lifeguard won't let me wear my paddles. And the water is warm. However without Masters this am and a noon meeting, it was myself, Ja Boon and the YMCA at 5am.

The water was eighty three and you know what? I was glad about it. When the air is 4 but feels like -18 (and for the record.... what's the difference? Can we just call is a day when we forecast four degrees?) I took a good long easy 6 X 500's and it felt just fine.

I saw jason and Jeanne, and Amy, and it was nice to see familiar faces.

When we were done Ja Boon and I sat in the hottest- hot- tub- ever- in-the- world. Hooray! Something's gotta be warm around here and if that's water.... we will take it.

So workouts these days are in the garage on the trainer and the treadmill. The pool seems to be the only outing. I just wont' outside run when it feels like -18 and we have 40+ mph winds. I might need to HTFU.... or I might not need to have my son's memory of his mother to be that she was found frozen to death on the side of the road in the running position.

Now I am outside just plenty, those treadmill workouts are few but they are present. But hey, at least I can wear my skirt.

So here's to winter. The white and fluffy. The colder than cold... which I affectionatley call ass cold. Becasue in 2.5 weeks I will see the sun.

Oh yes... I will!