Despite asking if the open water swim at Ohio Street beach would be cancelled Monday night and even after reading the weather update that there was a 40% chance of thunderstorms AND even knowing that there were currently storms in the suburbs, we braved the hour-long CTA commute to get down there during rush hour.
We had spent the majority of the day at Skokie Hospital for my father's bionic knee surgery (knee replacement) and just made it home in time for a very late lunch and leaving for practice.
We got there about 30 minutes early, so I locked up my stuff and changed into my wetsuit. I wasn't sure if I'd be doing drills with the other gals, but wanted to get into the water and get used to the wetsuit again- I hadn't had it on since the late summer of last year.
I managed to get myself into it and walked to the water's edge when the rain started and so did the lightning. Awesome!
After a few minutes of thunder and lighting, the clouds rolled in very, very quickly and very dark. We trotted over to the food service beach area to stand under an awning at the hotdog stand; honestly already soaking wet. We watched the clouds roll in and out in a matter of about 15 minutes. This was fine at this point since it wasn't even 6:30, so we were ahead of the game. Unfortunately, even when it stopped raining and stopped thundering, it continued lightning. Michael approached the lifeguards to ask the rule about getting back in the water and they said it was 45 minutes from the last bolt. Well, that essentially put us at dark so we stripped down and changed (again, I practiced getting OUT of the wetsuit!) and headed back home.
I guess the good news was that we got home in time to see the Blackhawks in the middle of the first period. I just climbed into bed and put on Saturday night's "Mad Men" finale on my iPad and didn't even eat any dinner! Michael called me into the living room when there were only a couple minutes left in the game; when we had scored our second goal and there were less than 2 minutes left.
I was really disappointed that I couldn't get a workout in last night (I would have just done something yesterday morning, like I had originally planned, but thought I've been light on swimming lately), but it is what it is. I am well rested for my 2.5 hour workout Tuesday!
We had spent the majority of the day at Skokie Hospital for my father's bionic knee surgery (knee replacement) and just made it home in time for a very late lunch and leaving for practice.
We got there about 30 minutes early, so I locked up my stuff and changed into my wetsuit. I wasn't sure if I'd be doing drills with the other gals, but wanted to get into the water and get used to the wetsuit again- I hadn't had it on since the late summer of last year.
I managed to get myself into it and walked to the water's edge when the rain started and so did the lightning. Awesome!
After a few minutes of thunder and lighting, the clouds rolled in very, very quickly and very dark. We trotted over to the food service beach area to stand under an awning at the hotdog stand; honestly already soaking wet. We watched the clouds roll in and out in a matter of about 15 minutes. This was fine at this point since it wasn't even 6:30, so we were ahead of the game. Unfortunately, even when it stopped raining and stopped thundering, it continued lightning. Michael approached the lifeguards to ask the rule about getting back in the water and they said it was 45 minutes from the last bolt. Well, that essentially put us at dark so we stripped down and changed (again, I practiced getting OUT of the wetsuit!) and headed back home.
I guess the good news was that we got home in time to see the Blackhawks in the middle of the first period. I just climbed into bed and put on Saturday night's "Mad Men" finale on my iPad and didn't even eat any dinner! Michael called me into the living room when there were only a couple minutes left in the game; when we had scored our second goal and there were less than 2 minutes left.
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| Blackhawks capture the Stanley Cup in Boston 2013 |
I was really disappointed that I couldn't get a workout in last night (I would have just done something yesterday morning, like I had originally planned, but thought I've been light on swimming lately), but it is what it is. I am well rested for my 2.5 hour workout Tuesday!
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