The weekend was busy. It definitely feels like summer is over as my morning wake up call has been ~5:30am all week. Saturday morning I drove ~50min NW of Madison to Devil's Lake State Park to do an annual open water swim. It's only annual in my book- the park is beautiful and is the only nearby lake that is clean all summer. I make it a point to go at least once a summer to swim there. If you swim all the way across and back it's ~2.6 miles. I went with two other girls on the Master's swim club @ UW. One girl had never done an open water swim before and she made it the whole way! I was way more excited for her than I was for myself- so fun to see people accomplish goals for the 1st time.
Saturday night I met my bro-in-law and his wife-to-be @ a new brewery on the near east side of Madison (the same neighborhood the Willy St. Co-op is in). The brewery is called Next Door Brewing Company- it was ~2/3 restaurant and 1/3 bar. We just had drinks- I had the Wilbur which is a Cream Ale- it was delicious!
Today was the Ironman in Madison, so I got up early to watch the swim start. There seem to be more spectators every year- a very fun event, but given the amount of $$ required to participate in triathlons I always wonder if there are some mega athletes out there that just can't/won't shell up the $ to race. A great day for Madison nonetheless and I always have a number of friends competing- kudos! The remainder of the weekend involved a disturbing amount of studying & who really wants to hear about that- LAME!
Finally, I will bore you with the fact that I switched my closet from summer to fall/winter clothes. There has been a bite to the morning air the last week in Madison & I know fall is on its way- I'm eagerly awaiting its arrival this year.
Finally, I will bore you with the fact that I switched my closet from summer to fall/winter clothes. There has been a bite to the morning air the last week in Madison & I know fall is on its way- I'm eagerly awaiting its arrival this year.