As every year, May brings the annual swim down Town Lake in Austin, my motivation to get to the pool twice a week all winter and stay in some kind of shape. This year I moved up an age group into tougher competition, which was both good and bad: I didn’t have any hope of placing this year, as I have the last two times I swam the race, but I didn’t have any pressure to, either. So I didn’t swim very hard–I was barely winded at the finish–but I finished 60th overall, exactly the same as in 2008. If I were still 34, I’d have scored yet another third place plaque (or maybe I would have swum six seconds faster and taken second); instead, I got ninth.
(Yes, that’s actually the photo from 2007. I don’t know if Molly got a photo this year.)
Disappointed? Not at all. I love collecting trophies, sure, but I got to spend a week in Austin with my sister and take a quick trip to New Orleans, eat lots of great food, and hang out in the sun at Barton Springs, my favorite place on Earth.
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