A Comedy of Errors: Our Practice Run

Oh. Dear. God.

Anyone lucky enough to have been filming our misadventure on Sunday would surely have a viral youtube video on their hands (side note, Jackie is very proud that she knows such slang as "viral videos" and "cougars", it makes her feel hip, so please engage her in the latest slang next time you see her). Good thing we we stupid enough to take pictures so you all wouldn't have to wonder how it went, which was a little something like this:

Part A: The Swim

In an effort to make sure we had experienced an open water swim before race day, we donned our craigslist purchased wetsuits (sleeveless was a bad idea), goggles and swim caps and then spent 20 minutes trying to figure out the quick route into the water. We eventually gave up after wandering around half of Treasure Island and traversed across goose poop and plunged in, to what felt like 20 degree water. For drama's sake, lets say it was as cold as the water when the Titanic sunk, fact. As we fluttered around, unable to put our heads underwater due to the immense ice cream headache it gave us, we realized that this was going to be much harder than anticipated. Oh, and Jackie cut her toe upon existing the liquid tundra. Sigh...

Part B: The Bike Ride

Ok, here's the easy part, right? Just bike around flat, boring, radioactive-in-parts Treasure Island for 25 miles. Wrong. After a pee break and an immense study of the route map, we're on our way! Then, on lap 2 or 6, my tire goes flat. Just like that, not even an interesting story. Luckily Jackie came to the rescue with her tire patch kit and fixed my tire, which we deduced was probably the original inner tube that the bike came with some time in the 80s. Morale is low and the bike ride is cut in half after I can't change my gears to get up the one slight incline.

Part C: The Run

Finally, something we can't fail at! And you know what? We didn't! No scraped knees or twisted ankles. Just a casual 2 mile run to cool down. This might be the strangest thing for us, something actually going right.

Top 5 Random Things We Saw on Treasure Island:

1. Doggy Diner Dogs!!

2. Rugby Players...oo la la

3. Beautiful view of San Francisco (if only Treasure Island didn't suck so bad it would be an awesome place to live)

4. Geese. Lots and lots of scary geese

5. That's it, Treasure Island doesn't even have 5 things worth seeing.