Yes.
Yes I am standing on rocks. I am standing here, pretending to be kicking in place like everyone else, because I still can’t figure out how to do egg-beater kick and I whacked the crap out of my foot and cursed the stupid rocks until I realized that I could stand on them!
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So went my last morning in Honolulu, at the group swim at Kaimana. I actually whacked my foot in the same place on a completely different set of rocks during a different kickset. Kicking is not for me. Then I went for a last ride up Tantalus, packed my stuff, convinced my brother to “work off site” for the rest of the afternoon, and we went to Makapu’u to watch the waves!
Then I got on a plane to Seattle, via Dallas I thought, but also via St. Louis somehow. In the 48 hour period from 11 a.m. Monday to 11 a.m. Wednesday, I spent 26 hours on a plane to basically get from Boulder to Seattle – I don’t recommend it, but the upside is I got to spend the winter in Hawaii and a week in Boulder, and then I got to get a massage to help heal my travel-weary body 
. I also got a haircut (not pictured here but I am so glad I held off on the haircut until I could get back to Seattle and see Joey at Zero-Zero, she is amazing!), and met up with Chris Tremonte et al. for what was advertised as an evening of Thai Food on Thursday.
But as we sat down, starving, and looked at the menus… I gave Chris the LOOK of DEATH. This was NOT Thai. This was Chinese. The only cuisine I have encountered in this world that I cannot stand. Chris admitted that the emails about the evening were incredibly misleading and yes it was supposed to be Thai but, alas, it was not Thai. I complained via text/voicemail/videochat to Ben who pointed that I am only in town for a week, I shouldn’t go pissing everyone off, but from my standpoint, I am only in town for a week so I should NOT be wasting precious evening dinner time on Chinese food that I drove alllll the way to Redmond to unwittingly suffer through. (If Chris weren’t so entertaining, I would have gone home, but I do like Chris! And despite my whinings I did manage to get a not-entirely-gross meal.) I made up for it last night with blogless friends Hunter and Phil at Cafe Presse, delish!
Today I am “taking the day off from training” in order to “get organized”. I’m about to freak out. My grand plan is to leave Seattle on Wednesday, drive down to the Bay Area for a couple days, do the Madera Stage Race en route to San Diego, stay in SD for a month or so for the Superfrog Triathlon and then head up to Wildflower, then visit with Ben, then go to the family reunion in Maryland on Memorial Day weekend, then go wherever I am going to school, which could be starting at any time from June 1 to Sept. 23.
Here is what I have accomplished today: I have too much spandex for one Honda Civic.
