i'm no dolphin, yeah i ain't no mermaid.

4 hour workout this morning. dude. walked to ramsey, and it was so lovely. i left and it was still pitch black outside, and it was only just barely dark blue when i arrived at ramsey. i began my day with 'rise and shine' yoga, which was with a new instructor i hadn't gone to yet. after the class, she approached me and asked if i'd been practicing yoga long, because i did very well. i was floored! i said i hadn't, and just thanked her... thinking back, i should have said, "yeah, cuz i normally go to Katie C's class and she don't play," but i didn't think of that fast enough. so, watch out world, i may be a little yogi in the making! hah!

after that was body pump, which is an aerobics class structured around weights... doing curls and stuff with a bar, and then free weights during really tough moves. that is certainly the class to be going to if i want to FINALLY build up some upper body strength! the instructor was a taaad scary looking though, her arms were so buff she could have been a man. same with her legs and core. meh, i don't wanna look that way. maybe i'll go til i can manage the pushups in katie's class, then bounce. no need for man arms. (also, her eyes looked just like this one guy i've liked for a while, so... that was weird too.)

finally, I SWAM. that wasn't even supposed to be in caps, but i guess i accidentally hit the caps lock key... fittingly. swimming was terrifying. i stood in the women's locker room, squishing into my new speedo swimsuit, and i was mortified. i felt gross (sweaty from 2:45 minutes of workout already, and now my body was all sucked into this spandexy one-piece) and on top of that, i'd NEVER swam laps before--so i wasn't even really sure what i was about to do. i didn't even know where the exit was from the locker room to the pool. by the time i walked out there, my heart was pounding, and as the lifeguard eyed me when i got in the GIGANTIC pool, i was sure i was doing something wrong. i realized something--i'd never been in a pool that was automatically deep, all over. i'd always been able to wade over to the 5 foot part. having no bottom freaked me out.

this is the pool at ramsey where i swam! the dark one is the diving pool.

my heart was pounding so hard i couldn't control my breath, and i honestly felt like i was going to drown in that 9 ft. deep pool. i flailed about for 30 minutes, and while i was swimming i realized why i was scared--i never really learned to swim. i mean, i can doggy paddle and hold myself afloat, but i literally know NOTHING about doing more than that. but i creeped on the other swimmers and tried copying their patterns and that helped. when i got out, i looked at the diving pool next to me--SEVENTEEN FEET DEEP. i almost fainted, just being that close to something that deep. oh my gosh.

you know those people who are so comfortable in the water, they swear they could be part dolphin/mermaid? yeah i'm not one of those people. i've determined the hardest part of training for a triathlon for me will definitely without a doubt be the swimming aspect. at least for starters, til i can get my heartrate down, so as to prevent myself from DROWNING. i can't even imagine swimming in a lake... who KNOWS how deep that might get. meeeeeep.

and in reply to Ashley Moore who asked about my nails-- this video shows how i did it. it's super cheesy haha but it's sooo easy. :)