Swimming pool = cesspool?
Triathlon has turned me into Wendell.
No no, I’m not back to my anti-swimming ways already. I did wake up Saturday morning with about my 15th cold of 2010. And I’m blaming the pool. Maybe not the pool, but the people who swim in the pool and think it’s ok to spit in the gutter around the edge of the pool. Why is this accepted? I’m not 100% sure of pool filtration theory or practice, but I’m pretty sure that the water that runs down into the gutter ends up back in the pool. Maybe some of the big old nasty stuff gets filtered out, but I’m pretty sure the germs are in it for the long run. How much does chlorine really kill off anyway? Even if it doesn’t come back into the pool (yea right), everyone still has to touch the gutter at some point. So gross. Blech. Anyway!
I’m a huge fan of R+R, but I decided to go wild and do something different this time around with the cold. I trained through it! …though very easily. I did an easy 2k swim to spread my germs around, then went out for an easy hour spin up Lookout. I took my camera and thought of it more as a scenic mosey than a training ride. The goal was to get fresh air in the lungs. It helped! I felt super fresh for my intense lap counting and timing duties at the Senior State Swim Meet Sunday night. That’s right: 14 and ups! No no, don’t have a wee relative I was helping out, just my teammates. Jordan busted out a PB: 19:06! Nice to live vicariously through him 
Here’s some pics from Lookout. It was snowing up top, by the time I got up around the switchbacks it was snowing pretty good all over. Descending back into town in the snow was pretty fun and surprisingly not all that cold despite my lack of layering.
Looking west from Lookout
Paragliders over Golden
Getting snowy near the upper switchbacks.
