Draggin ass

I got my new wetsuit yesterday in a whirlwind trip down to Falls Church Virginia. It's a Blue Seventy Helix. It fits quite snug and the zipper is bizarre because you have to thread it at the neck and it zips down the back. The sales guy at Bonzai Sports said it was strange that they still kept that design where all other wetsuits zip up the back to close I guess.

I thought about getting a Profile aero bottle while I was there but I'm still not sure which bike I will be riding come Ironman time. I've ordered a P2C 56 but they're hard to come by and I have no idea when it will arrive. My shop, River City Bicycles is working hard to make it happen. They're awesome.

Anyway, back to the wetsuit. I decide to take it for a spin in the pool this morning to make sure everything fit right. I got it zipped up which wasn't so bad but definitely takes work. I hopped in the pool and was going to swim an easy 1000 yards.

Off I went and boy did I go. I was like a torpedo well at least I felt that way. I was motoring through the water with barely any effort. It's amazing how fast you can go when you're aero and dragging your ass through the water. It's skimming the water instead as were my legs. I was busting out 1:42 hundreds with ease. Friggin amazing. The suit just wants to float. The only bad thing was it's really compressed on my shoulders. I feel a constant pressure so I'm not sure but that will take some getting used to. I'll take it for the easy 13 seconds per 100 improvement. That's going to come out to about 4 minutes and 30 seconds faster in the half iron and 9 minutes faster in the iron.

I would've posted some snap shots but my frickin power suppy in my Windows desktop died again. The power was going out a bunch yesterday so I'm thinking that could've fried it. This is the 3rd power supply that's died in my desktop. Argh and I don't Fry's just around the corner to get a new one easily. I'll be hitting up Ebay although I can't update my paypal information because it has an old phone number and old address in the system. Paypal has gone so overboard to prevent ID and account theft it won't let me change it. I have no idea what to do.

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