Here I go again

Yet another training week gone by and the tough one begins! I start my bricks this week. (basically, bike for awhile, then jump off and walk/run for awhile to get used to the transition and crazy jelly legs). I'm both excited and nervous to take this next step.

My other interesting experiment is trying to swim freestyle and not move my legs much. This way I don't burn out my legs for the bike/run-walk part. That has been interesting and quite a workout.

But my most crazy experience with this whole training thing has been the women's locker room at the pool. Now, I see naked people all the time at work, in all sorts of different states. I have no problem with nakedness. However, apparently deep down I do. I swim during the day when they have water aerobics for people averaging the age of 85. These ladies are out there doing their thing and I think that is awesome! However, they also like to just "do their thing" in the locker room. I've never felt comfortable just being naked in front of people - I remember perfecting the art of removing one shirt while putting on another at the same time during gym class in middle school.

But these ladies have NO problem. I have held full conversations with totally naked octagenarians brushing their hair - not quite as sexy as a playboy spread, but apparently people do brush their hair while naked as a jaybird. Others stand in front of the hand dryers - completely nude - to dry off. Other's rinse out their suits in the sink, also completely nude. Another lady is pushing her walker, you guessed it, completely nude from the shower to the bench, where she also sits down to dry off and put her clothes back on.

So when one nude lady asks me, "Are you new?" and I say I am....I know they don't need to ask this questions since I change in the bathroom stall and not out in the open. Call me a prude, but I like to keep my private bits, well, private.