A new personal trainer

It's been an interesting week so far. I saw parts of my first triathlon. I volunteered at the Tri Club of SD half iron man event / practice. The folks who were participating were great! I was at both a bike and a run station and everyone who stopped by was super nice. They were also obscenely fit. That part was a little discouraging. Of course, all the people competing were ready to swim a mile, bike 56 miles, and THEN run 13 miles. If I'm ever up for a half iron man, I'd better be obscenely fit too! In order to eventually achieve this level of fitness, I've engaged a new personal trainer.
Yep, it's MEGGIE the wonder dog. After every run, I've been giving the dogs some nice, yummy, high calorie kibble. It turns out that Meggie took the good kibble to heart. Yesterday I was feeling lazy and didn't want to get out of bed. I'd set my alarm so that I could be up and running by 5 am. (Yeah I know... ewwwwww) Well, at 4:45 I changed my alarm to go off at 6. At 5:11 I had a stuffed monkey thrown in my face by a hyper, grunt-whining dog. Yes, Meggie decided that it was Sunday, which meant it was time for a run so she could get her yummy kibble. So I was going to get up darn it. If I didn't get up, there'd be no run, and thus no kibble. Needless to say, I got up. As I stumbled along on my run, in the dark, I ended up tripping and banging my elbow, thigh, and hand. I was less than 10 minutes into my run, and I totally had the urge to hobble home to lick my wounds. I ended up continuing my run for a total of 25 minutes and going further than I had before. I actually went past my first distance goal. (woo hoo!) Now the hard part for me lately has been swimming. I don't know why I've had no motivation to swim. It's my favorite form of exercise and the leg I'm best at in tri. (Hmm.. it might have something to do with wearing a swim suit in front of other people.... It might get better when I get my wetsuit.) Anyway, I've decided to force myself to get into the pool. I signed up for classes. There's an intermediate class that deals specifically with triathlon swimming (swimming in a pack, drafting, swimming in a wetsuit) that I signed up for. So, I'm going to be in the pool today at 7 pm. I figure if I can do it for 3 weeks, I'll be able to continue it with the tri-club's weekly practice. Wish me luck!