Is it a cold? Adventures of the dry-cough that won't stop.
And Tri-ing something new!
I mentioned tea drinking last week and having the start of some kind of something. Well it has been a weird dry cough out of nowhere and then I feel normal but tired. So since hubby had the same thing last week and it never turned fully evil...I'm hoping mines the same and goes away soon. I was happy to have a fairly easy schedule and happy the weather cooperated and wasn't too hot. So that my EA and EB paces were pretty accurate despite the not feeling 100%.
I did skip Thursday. It was the worst day of the cold and hubby had a major workout
ahem...Major Workout
On Saturday
@roxyhubby had an hour swim on the schedule "in open water if possible" and a brand new wetsuit ready to be tried out. So after soccer practice for kiddo and him trying to figure out how to go somewhere and get into the wetsuit on his own I offered up that we should just go with him. Pick a place and we'll lounge about after I zipped him in. So we packed up the car and headed to Ohio Street Beach in Chicago..aka the beach closest to Navy Pier and right by where all the big yachts park aka "the playpen"
Per Chris this is where the majority of the open water swimmers in Chicago head to get their workouts in and so thought he'd give it a go.
Traffic was a bit annoying. Luckily we found a reasonable (for Chicago standards) public parking garage and loaded our wagon full of kiddo's sand toys, towels and hubby's gear.
It was an easy walk and the beach was not crowded...probably because it was in the low 70's and the water was like 61.
We found a spot right by where all the other wetsuit wearing people were entering the water. Right next to the bike/jog path. Big fluffy clouds kept rolling by causing shade then sun off and on.
I zipped up roxyhubby after he used sandwich baggies to get his feet in. We had done this once before at home as a dry run and I had said "this is gonna be exactly like getting on controlled top pantyhose"
The attempt on the beach went really easy and zipped him up no problem, but I don't know how anyone can zip in these things on their own...I guess without some practice. I did see lots of peeps zipping themselves but seemed like a great way to pull your shoulder out.
Roxyhubby looking dapper. I'm glad he wore that green cap..easy to spot him.
There was one guy who emerged from the water in just a speedo. My head canon decided he was a James Bond villain swimming out of an underground sub that left from his secret private island.
Also...brrr
Hubby decided to swim down to the 1/2 mile buoy and back and then see how much time he had left before his hour was up.
This is what we did.
That's a popsicle in my hand that I bought off a street vendor on a bike. Kiddo was only half interested in eating it. darn.
Note the two people lounging to our right in the pic above? They were using the wetsuits as pillows. I think almost everyone who came in would strip off their suit and either hang it on the railing or lay it on a towel and then just lay out in the sun for awhile. Lots of tri brand bags (I'm familiar...I read Triathlete magazine in the bathroom afterall) with hang tags from various ironman or triathlon type races.
And finally here's me trying to act casual while taking pics of the little locker area and railings for the swimmers. A bit farther down it was covered with suits drying.
Hubby came back eventually and had shown me that the buoy we thought was 1/2 mile was only a qtr and I could barely see the 1/2 buoy he did swim to. And gosh you distance swimmers are impressive. I think at most I swim maybe three arm movements before going into my patented sea otter float.
I mean this is basically as close as I get to swimming...
So that was our little adventure. If anything we know he won't be in the water as long for his Olympic Tri...so He's totally got this! And the wetsuit fit and felt good and he was "feeling buoyant." Said the water was clearer than his other open water experiences despite how gross I'm sure Lake Michigan over by the city must be. Let's not think about it.
Then he ran 7.5 miles yesterday and biked for a few hours. #wifebrag
This week is gonna be a grind for him with workouts every single day but today and then next week is taper. So I'll fit myself in where I can!
Roxy Training week #3
Mon 6/26: off, but I may do my Tue run tonight since hubby if off
Tue 6/27: 3mi EA (see above)
Wed 6/28: off
Thur 6/29: 4mi w strides
Fri 6/30: off
Sat 7/1: 3mi EA
Sun 7/2: 5 mi LR - hey LR pace is back! There's a running track I want to attempt to run to and back that didn't really make sense for anything less than 5 miles so I'm thinking of trying that out. It'll make more sense for like 8-10 mi runs+ but I kinda just want to see what getting there, doing a big lap and going home with net me in distance.
So that's it for me for right now. It's been a weird week with really busy stuff at work, not feeling great, and a loss in our family (it was expected but still quite sad) so I'm looking to be a positive person all week.
And yes, I accidentally ate some shoe string french fries at an outdoor eatery after our little beach visit. Didn't even think about until I got home. What can you do...at least I've been eating better SO MUCH BETTER so I'll allow it 
