Speed goggles.

This morning I had downtown breakfast with my friend Todd. Todd is fast. Like 5 kilometers in the 14 minute range fast. While I'm learning all kinds of cool running stuff from Todd, like how real runners run, and how to maintain 75 mile weeks that I would love to be able to run someday, today I learned a whole new phenomenon.  Todd was telling me about dating. Since he's a decade younger than me, I feel I can pry in a motherly way. He introduced me to the idea of speed goggles. They're like beer goggles, but apparently can be developed without alcohol and out of respect for one's running talent. Who knew?

There was an almost audible click in the pool tonight. Masters was a serious at Oahu Club. During the main ladder set of 1200, I started swimming again. It was probably my tenth swim of the year. I actually went around 6'7" gorilla-arm Brad during one of the fast 150s. And now we'll know if Brad reads the blog, because if he does, he'll never let that kind of talk fly. I'm swimming again at 5:30 am, ten hours after getting out of the water.. time to get moving again.