Saturday morning I got up at 5am and drove down to St. Petersburg for a group bike ride and swim. I went with a girl from work and one of her friends, and we stuck with the hardcore Mad Dog Tri team for their "warmup" and then forged our own path. It started raining during the ride, but we kept going and ended up doing about 40 miles. The ride was gorgeous, with the ocean just yards away from us at most times. However, when we were done, we looked like we had played around at the beach instead of riding because we were covered in sand. Then we hit the pool for about an hour, just as a line of nasty storm clouds were rolling in. My ride back home was really scary. I'm not used to driving in such horrible rain. Everything just turns white and you really don't have any depth perception. Anyway, I made it back to Palm Harbor with no incident, and picked up a couple of movies for Stephen Ray and I watch during the rainy day. The rest of my day was really relaxing, just chilling and watching movies.
I'm trying to find a good church to attend around here so this weekend was also round 1 of the search. So on Saturday night I drove to Clearwater to go to a contemporary service. It was nice, but I still have a few other options to check out. I don't know if it's worth the drive.
So Sunday I got up and drove to a church to the north, in New Port Richey. As soon as I got on 19 the clouds opened up and the rain came pouring down again. I had to go about 35 in a 55 zone because it was so hard to see anything. I got scared b/c I was just going along and all of the sudden my car came to an abrupt stop. I looked around and realized I had driven right into a flooded lane...like a foot and half of water. All of the rain water was collected right in this specific pocket and I had managed to drive right into it. I figured it was bad, but I held on the gas to where my speedometer read about 40, but I was crawling at about 10 b/c it was so deep. I pulled out of it thought, luckily without having flooded the engine. With all of the rain I had missed my turn and didn't realize so I kept driving north looking at every intersection and gave up when it said I was past Port Richey and approaching another town. I turned back around and finally the rain calmed down enough to where I could see the signs decently. I found the turnoff to the church, and found out that even if I had made my turn earlier I would've been late for service b/c it started at 10 when I thought the website said 11. Now that I know where it is I'm going to give that church a 2nd go next Sunday. Sheesh, what an adventure!
I went ahead and signed up for a gym that's exactly a 5k (3.1 miles ) from our condo. The road to it has a sidewalk so I'll be making Mondays my run to the gym do Body Flow and run back days. I tried it yesterday and it was tough, but definitely a good training workout.
So, today was another day in the office...My supervisors got back from a race in Del Mar, CA and will only be in for another day before leaving for Atlanta. Today was spent doing data entry on that race so my neck's definitely feeling it after 8 hours typing on a computer. But, no complaints...it's all part of the job. I'm still enjoying my work and just trying to find a healthy balance when it comes to triathlon. I mean, I'm working on triathlon stuff from 9-5 M-F and then coming home and training for triathlon. I just don't want to get burnt out on the sport so I'm hoping to find another outlet of some kind...something relaxing and enjoyable where I can meet some new people. It's still a little weird having come here not knowing a soul, but I guess that's part of growing up.
Well, that should do it for now. Until next time...
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