This week’s knitting goal: finish Curtis’ scarf. Another couple of nights of knitting while movie watching should do it; it’s at least 60-70% done.
This weekend and next week: tackle Lady Eleanor.
Then I will go back to new things.
I indulged myself at Alamitos Bay Yarn Company this past Saturday after working at [...]

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Nope, didn’t do this one.
But Mel and I volunteered.
This was the first time, in all my years of 5ks, 10ks, marathons (well, 2), half marathons, etc, and now tri’s, that I have volunteered to help with a race. Kinda ashamed of that, actually.
But it was so much fun. I helped a bunch of [...]

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Dave didn’t get a slot for Alcatraz, so he was our official photographer. This is my favorite:

Yep, that’s me at the start of the bike, in my new, 2006 LA Tri Club uniform (well, I wore it for the Strawberry Fields Tri (oops – Du)) — isn’t it relatively slimming for skintight technical fabric?
Here [...]

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The past five months have been relatively light, vet work-wise. That ended last week when, after a couple phone calls and emails, I ended up overbooking my summer — which is fine, more money for yarn and (hate to admit it, but more importantly), triathlon toys. (And of course savings and paying off [...]

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Finished…..
Gotta say, it was a million times harder than the Wildflower Olympic.
I should’ve been a LOT more scared. Ignorance is bliss.
more later…..oh, for pics of me (taller, white hat) & Mel (shorter, red sports bra, red hat), check out my flickr page. We’re both in our LA Tri Club uniforms.

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