This is how gorgeous it COULD have been... I wake up at 3:30 and I smell smoke . Inside the house through closed windows. CRAP! No need to even take a peek through the blinds. I knew there was a good chance this would happen after seeing the smoke roll back in the night before but I was hoping for the best... only to wake up to the worst. Thursday , when we rolled into town, the air was terrible. Like the-minute-I-got-out-of-my-car-I-got-a-headache terrible. But there was hope because, hey, winds change and firefighters are hard at work and there were more than two days left before the race! This is what Thursday evening looked like down by the lake: I didn't do much that night. Just a a very easy little jog along the beach to shake out the legs after a day of driving. And super short swim because I couldn't wait any longer to swim in that beautiful lake !!! But then, of course, I got wimpy again swimming all by myself in that big
Mom of 2 Wild Boys, Wife to a PhD Student, Professional Triathlete