Run, Sail, Drink

I guess you could say I did a sort of alternative triathlon yesterday -- running, sailing and tailgating.

At 7am I reluctantly got out of bed and met up with a few of the usual suspects near BC for a hilly long(ish) run. It was already pretty warm when we started (Summer is finally here!) and the 8 miles Aimee and I covered were challenging. We ran down Comm Ave to Kenmore, then turned and ran back up Beacon and around the reservoir, tackling quite a few nasty hills in the process. Aimee's Garmin said we were doing about an 8:50 pace, but the heat and the hills made it feel a lot tougher than that. I've been pretty complacent in my running lately, though, so I welcomed the challenge.

From there, it was off to Weymouth to help my dad do the last bit of work on the boat and get in the first sail of the season, and I even brought an extra set of muscles with me to assist with the heavy lifting. Everything was squared away in no time (big thank you and shout out to said muscles...) and before we knew it, we were under sail and raising our beers to toast it. We didn't stay out long, but it was nice to be back on the water again.

Back on dry land, I took the fastest shower of my life and then hooked a ride down to Mansfield to the Comcast Center for my first-ever Jimmy Buffett concert. My friends had been tailgating since mid-afternoon, so by the time I arrived I had no choice but to dive right in and join them full-force. The parking lot lived up to everything I'd heard about it, the concert was phenomenal and I'll certainly be going again the next time he's in town.

I slept in the car almost the entire way home and by the time I finally hit my apartment I was thoroughly spent from my day of festivities. This "tri" of running, sailing and binge-drinking is certainly nothing I could do every weekend, nor would I want to. But it just proves to me again how much marathon training equips you to go the distance in real life, too. And now it's time to tackle another tri - running, cleaning and timesheets. Yuck!