** EDITS** Zippers

**I added a link to my 2007 race results because I had erroneously stated previously that I had finished in just over 3 hours. It was actually just over 2. I guess it just felt like 3...

I get an email at work every month laying out notable tidbits about each day. The first Quaker immigrants landed in Massachusetts today, for example. They were later deported. Also, Dr. H. Harlan Stone used zippers rather than stitches on 28 patients today, thinking that would be better in case there were complications from the original operations - just unzip and go to work, right?! Hm...sounds like a pretty horrific idea if you ask me. And it kind of was. They don't do that, anymore.

I signed up for an offroad triathlon today. Mark your calendars, folks. July 30th, I'll be swimming, biking and running my way to exhaustion. I'll be 1/2 way there on the drive down, I'm sure. It's in Newport, so I'm fairly certain we'll have to go down the night before. Either that, or get up super early for the 9am start. I'm sure there'll be a pre-race briefing I'll have to go to as well. It's been a while since my last tri. I'm kind of excited. I'm also kind of scared and wondering why I signed up. The last one of these I did was a little longer (1000m swim, 20k bike, 5k run), and it took me 2 hours (I know, I know...). This one is 800m swim, 12k bike and 5k run. Last year's slowest person finished in 2:30. Yipes. You might be reading a blog post from the 2011 slowest racer from the Olalla Lake off-road tri. Congratulations! I'll keep you updated.

In prep, I've hopped back into the spin class routine. Today was my first day in over a month. I did a mini-backward-tri yesterday (run, bike, swim), and after spin this morning, my thighs were so tired/sore that my knees ache. Ugh. That's not a good feeling. I biked to the gym this morning. We only moved about 2 blocks away from our first apartment here, but for some reason, it has added about 9 minutes to the walk to the gym. Biking eliminates that. Next step is to figure out how to bike to work.

And last but not least, 10 weeks after getting my hair cut short, I'm going in for a trim up on Wednesday. So excited. Mostly b/c this haircut has lasted so long. I'm generally dissatisfied by week 4, and getting it cut by week 6. I just this weekend decided that I'm sick of my hair and ready for a trim. It's time to grow it out, so we'll see how creative my new hair guy can be...