No Dolphins but Many Mermaids

What happens to the body that endures 8 hours of hard training for 7 days straight…in the heat? Apparently it gets pretty inflamed. Things feel pretty puffy. I’ve heard that about ultra running but have never experienced it …but then I’ve never trained like this before. Nonetheless, following yesterday’s volcano climb, we managed to get up and run 20km this morning, and with superstar Nic Stevenson running with us we couldn’t crawl as slow as our bodies felt compelled to. Following that we headed out for 40ish km on the bike to the beautiful Cap. Cook Bay where we swam what we thought would be at most 3km. I’m not sure if it was the current, my eyes trying to take in the gorgeous mountainside view while simultaneously trying to sight our destination across the bay (and T’s feet), or whether being so bagged simply blurred our vision, but Tara and I swam at least 500m off course, and when I saw her starting to shiver I got just a little panicked since we couldn’t figure out where the beach was…and treaded water in discussion…but eventually we made it. I was so impressed with everyone out there today…especially  the beautiful April. With so little body fat I’m not sure how she kept warm enough but she was excellent and her little pink cap kept bobbing out there, and when she emerged from the waves mermaid-like, she was all smiles and whole lot of class. Very cool. Super tour guide Ted promised we’d swim with the dolphins today but they didn’t make an appearance. Maybe there will be something comparable in Lake Placid in July Ted?  The fact that I felt even just a little nervous out there when I’m usually very comfortable in the open water, made me realize how stellar everyone was today when they were so nonplussed about what I thought was a pretty epic swim. We then did a 7ish km time trial climb on very exhausted bodies. I just wanted to get the hell to the top as fast as possible to be done. To cap off the 90km total riding mileage today, T, Schleck, AZ, and I  met April at Starbucks to continue the Toronto-London tradition. Every ride is made even better when there is an Americano at the end!

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