SNOW, COLD and more SNOW

When my Dad and I were driving through Kansas and it started snowing and sleeting on the car...I was very tempted to turn around and head back to sunny Florida!! But, instead, I'm currently residing in my new room at the OTC in Colorado Springs! It's HUGE and I can't wait to collect things to decorate it with! So it's really COLD here...I went for a jog yesterday and got snowed on (that was a new experience for me!) and when I woke up yesterday, my car was covered with snow (that was a new experience for my car:). The weather is forcasted to e really cold and snowy all through the weekend...but I'm hoping that it will start getting nice and good weather for training outside (b/c EVERYONE knows how I feel about riding my bike inside!!!)
It was cool to check into the OTC on Friday afternoon and discover that the World University Games swim team was here for the weekend to train and have meetings. (the actual WUG event is in August in Turkey!) So I've spent some time visiting with friends from my former life...Leah Retrum, Daniel Cruz, Justin Mortimer, Bryce Hunt, Elizabeth Hill, Alyssia Keil...etc! They are here until Sunday and then its back to their home teams to train until the meet!
I got to swim with Andy Potts at practice this morning, finally. He's a guy on the triathlon resident team...swam for Michigan a few years ago...sponsored by Speedo...first guy out of the water in every race...made the Athens Olympic team! So it was nice to finally have some one to swim with at practice...we were holding 1:09ish on a bunch of 100s...then we had a 300 hard and I only beat him by a little bit. (I will admit that my heart was about to burst out of my chest when I was swimming fast...it's going to take a few more days/weeks to get used to the lack of oxygen up here at 6000feet above sea level:)
Off to lunch and then a movie while riding my bike on a trainer in the basement! Later Gators!