This morning I planned to spend a half hour in the pool prior to the cycling class. Disaster. I’m panicked.

First of all, it’s freezing in there. I know this is a total amateur complaint!! Yet really…triathletes are amazing. You start off each session in each sport cold (at least this time of year). That pool is cold at the beginning. The cycling studio is cool at the beginning with fans blowing on your neck. And you want to dress to be cold at the beginning of a run outdoors, since you’ll soon heat up. I know you’ll soon heat up everywhere, yet that first minute in the pool is COLD. (And you’re supposed to shower before you go in the pool, so you might as well have that experience be cold as well…)

Second of all, I have so much to learn. I couldn’t calm down my breathing. I couldn’t relax. Each drill, that I’d been taught at a previous lesson, felt awkward and I was convinced that I was doing it all wrong and was probably learning bad habits.

I got out of the pool. The freak out continues in my mind.

Two days home from Madison and the audacious Ironman Registration, and I already don’t have enough underwear.

I decided I should add swim time to my workout schedule today before the cycling class I’d already planned to attend. I have some practice packing the gym bag for a cycling class. I have no practice packing the gym bag for a swim.

I decided to dress this morning with my swimsuit underneath my day’s clothes and packed the cycling gear with me. On the way there I realized I had one pair of underwear in the bag and I would need 2 – to wear with the cycling outfit and then to wear for the day after I showered.

Huh, day 2 and the logistics are already tripping me up. Here we go!!