Excuse me officer, was I spinning too fast?

First week of IM training = complete!

We completed our first full week of training with a nice 90 minute ride with fellow OUers in Bonnie's Endurance Cycle spin class. Kels, Rach, and I brought our own bikes and trainers to get used to being on them for extended periods of time (ie: 112 miles). Apart from our Debbie Downer instructor (who was, thankfully, just a sub for the normal instructor), it was a blast! Definitely an awesome may to spend a Sunday afternoon!

All in all, this week was a great start to our journey of becoming Ironmen!

When approaching a roundabout while running....

...do you:

a) Yield to all traffic inside the roundabout
b) Conform to rules of running on the road and run through roundabout against traffic
c) Ignore the rules of running on the road and run through roundabout with traffic
d) Run a straight-line to middle of roundabout, pause to consider next step
e) Close eyes and just go for it
f) Hitchhike through roundabout
g) Call roommate and ask to google what to do
or
h) Avoid roundabouts on future runs

The End Is Near....

...of week one!

Highlight of week:
Boy, I mean man, at the pool decides that he should join three girls sharing one lane as opposed to the next lane over which has only one swimmer in the lane. Not only was it awkward when Rach, Kels, and I swam three wide straight at him and he didn't budge, but when he proceeded to swim underneath us the entire hour of our workout (minus goggles, thankfully) he just simply crossed the line. While his acrobatic toe touches at the bottom of the 14 foot diving well were inappropriate given the time and place, his performance instilled a great deal of humor into our workout.

To the man swimming in lane one at Oakland: Get out of the way. Ironmen in training.