Rest days and a slug

The training group got smaller today as Simon and Kirsten left for Austria to race this weekend in the World Cup there.  Jones got back today and will be doing training/recovering here for a week before heading off to England with me to meet Joel and the other two for the Salford WC.  We have been pretty lucky this year as our BAMF training group has not been split up that often going to different races as it usually does at this time of the year.  After this stint of races we will all convene back in Victoria to train as a TEAM and get ready for the World Champs and Beijing WC.

These last couple days for me have been recovery (easy swim yesterday, easy swim this morning followed by a 2 hour trainer ride watching the tour because it was raining outside and I melt in the rain).  I also got a 2 hour massage today to help with the recovery.  I have been having some pains in my shoulder this past week so Kim worked good in that area and it feels much better already.  We will test it out tomorrow in the open water swim workout.  Although the start of this week is recovery based, Joel said that the end of the week is going to be SOLID.  We will see how solid SOLID actually is... ;)

I will leave you with a tale of a slug that I have been hunting in my suite for some time.  Well a while ago I noticed that there were these weird marks on my wall by the sliding door.  I thought that they were just water marks from a big rain storm last year that flooded my suite a bit and I had just not noticed it.  Then I noticed the same marks on the ceiling coming from the sliding door.  So I followed the trail along the wall, on the ceiling all the way into my living room, down the wall and behind the TV.  That is where I lost the trail and there was no sign of the slug anywhere.  Well yesterday when I was vacuuming (yes I do clean once a year) I noticed that there was a little trail on the carpet in-front of the DVD rack coming down the wall.  The trail went into a little crevice beside the TV stand and lo and behold there is a really hard shriveled up crusted onto the carpet slug.  Let me tell you that the journey it went on must have taken it at least a week...it went a pretty long distance for how slow they move.  It must of made its journey when I was away at a race.  Well I just got a knife and cut of from the carpet and chucked it outside.  Maybe during the rain today it plumped up back to life and continued its journey...