early swim, weather, and dogs

I finally got up in time for the 5:15 am masters swim. It certainly helped that the clocks changed yesterday so it sort of felt like 6:15 am instead. Sort of. I have so much work to do. I got in what I think was the slowest (or one of the slowest) of 6(?) lanes and was the slowest one in it. Yikes! My intervals were on the 1:40 to 1:50 (swim +rest) and I was definitely struggling. Hopefully with a few weeks of consistency, I'll move up to the next faster lane and take 5-10 seconds off my interval, and then work on moving up lanes and speeds from there.

I'm happy I went. Now that I finally got up and went it will be a lot easier. But man I was so tired all day! I'm not used to swimming at all and definitely not used to getting up early.

It has been so warm here but I guess it is going to come to an end. 40's and maybe colder this week with a couple days of possible snow. I got out to bike yesterday and it was sunny when I left but when I got out towards the mountains it got cloudy and really windy. I was going downhill and only hitting 11-15 mph at times when I would normally go 25-30+. I ended up riding 50 mins out and 40 mins back, slow on the way out partially from the wind and partially from climbing.

Mickey is getting bigger everyday. I weighed him on Saturday and he was 36 lbs. I think he is going to end up being bigger than Cooper and Frito. But I guess we will see. He and Frito share a taste for garbage. After we went to the grocery store last night we returned to find Frito and Mickey had eaten/torn up some tissues and Halloween candy wrappers. And ironically, Cooper doesn't eat garbage, but Cooper did throw up while they were eating the garbage. The drama/excitement/barking perhaps.