BACA BOSTINHA BOY

Nothing all that exciting in the training world to report here. Recovery week has treated me well and I'm now ready to get back to the grind and prepare for Boise 70.3. I looked up all of the girls in the 18-24 category and there are 29 (!!!) athletes participating! For most of you, this would still be a small AG, but that is reaalllly big for my age group!! That will give me a taste of what I have to look forward to in the next couple of years (racing in larger ag's).

This week I got in 2 pretty long ocean swims. The first was with Berg, Liz, Sarah, Fred, Gary, Christiane, and Richard. Swimming back to the cove, Berg and I were leading the pack. All of a sudden, the water got super warm (comparatively) and huge heaps of kelp entangled me. If you've never swam with me in open water, they you might not know how much I hate it. I was "lucky" enough to have my first even Cove swim with Berg and Nick Brown last year where they petrified me and put kelp on my head. Kelp and I don't get along. Anyways, I freaked out after I got out of the kelp heap and Berg sees me and asks, "what's wrong?" I tell him that swimming through that all that scared me and I was freaking out. "Well...stop." and then he swam off. gee, thanks, Berg! muaha.

On Sunday we swam from LJ Shores to the A Buoy and back. I couldn't see the buoy from the first place, so I just waited a while before getting in and figured I would sight off other people as I caught up to them. Well that plan backfired because I was patiently waiting to get in, Antonio yells, "WHAT! You can't even get in the water?? How this girl qualify??" I swallowed a whole bunch of water laughing at his comments, but we ended up swimming to the buoy together with Liz and Fred. Coming back was a lot faster because of the waves and luckily we didn't have to deal with much kelp.

In other news, I got a puppy!!!! He is an 8 week old male Boxer. His name is Baca Boy. Liz got him for me for a graduation present (now let's just hope that I graduate!!) He already has many nicknames like Heffer, Devil Child, Shit Slinger, and Baca. He gets along with Goofy but I think Goofy is being a bit of a hater since Baca Boy is getting so much attention. Liz and I brought both of the pups over to Michelle and Felipe's yesterday and they had a great time terrorizing their home.

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Happy Mother's Day to my Mama Bird!!! I love you!