cd's

i haven't bought many cd's lately, but i'm really craving the new coldplay one and the new r.e.m. one. super good stuff off both of them from what i can tell so far.

galena triathlon report

i know it's been almost a week, but i finally wrote up my race report from galena.

the summary: beautiful course, wonderfully organized race, gorgeous weather, cold lake, hilly and windy bike, hilly run, hills, hills, hills, hills, hills, omg the HILLS. but i made it thru and felt pretty good about my performance, especially given my lack of training (particularly for the swim). plus, we had a nice weekend in a cute town and at a cute b&b while we were there. :)

my detailed race report is here.

overall time: 2:20:58
swim: 13:03
bike: 1:18:17
run: 42:55

another girl from around chicago talks about her dreadful experience on her blog here.

and provides pictures of some of the bike course here.

already looking forward to the next one in the quad cities on june 14!

edit: and here is an image of the first hill at the beginning of the run. doesn't do it justice...

holy crap

the pool is finally open! guess i'm going for a swim tonight! FINALLY!

pool still closed

still. i just got off the phone with them again. what do you know? they told me for the third week in a row that it "should open sometime this week." i complained and now she said that the operations manager has indicated that he will make some kind of "customer service gesture" to the people that use the pool. whatever that means. the best gesture, in my humble opinion, would be to OPEN THE POOL. seriously. i have a race in less than two weeks and i've not been able to swim in at least 5 weeks. i'm starting to freak out.