Hungry!

I actually swam this morning.  Not just kicked back and forth, but actually swam... and then I got hungry.  I had forgotten how hungry swimming always makes me.  Mind you, I didn't swam that far or that long, but after eating breakfast and heading to work, I was hungry by 9:00 AM.  By 10:00 AM, I had eaten almost all of my lunch, and was still looking for more.  It did feel good to get back to some real swimming.  I can't believe I just wrote that. 

I learned a few more things this past week in the snow and slush.  I don't think K-Swiss had winter in mind when they designed their shoes.  I decided to run last week, and chose the Kwicky's, figuring that, since they don't have a mesh upper, they might keep my feet a bit drier.  When I stepped in the first slush puddle, I got a cold jolt of water on the bottom of my foot.  And then I remembered that there are drain holes in the soles.  Similar to my Cervelo, the drain holes, unfortunately, don't have one-way valves.  So, just as water can exit easily, so can it enter easily.  Kind of funny when I got home, since my shoes weren't all that wet, but my socks were soaked. 

Running in the snow brought me back to my days in Chicago.  I remember running through the snow in Nike Sock Trainers.  Why?  Because my big toes hurt from playing basketball.