@abasket - that triathlon event is like the one I volunteered at a few weeks ago. The 400m swim part was in a pool (8 laps) rather than open water. A lot of folks are more comfortable with that. There were athletes of all ages and abilitues. I think you should try it.
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I think I’d be more comfortable as you say NOT in open water. This event is a calm small lake but the openness and no edge for grounding freaks me out a bit! We’ll see! I also currently don’t have a bike - but I also know no fancy bike is needed - just a bike that can go 11 miles! 
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@abasket Not trying to discourage you at all, but if it is in a lake, practice in the lake. I did the swim part of a relay triathlon once and found it very disorienting. Others did as well, I had swimmers coming back in my direction more than once.
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Counting down the (25) minutes until I can go home. My morning’s workout wiped me out. I haven’t been that soaked and woozy all summer. ( I hate August!!!) But, I did get in another 10 miles - 72 minutes running, 10 min. walking. I’m getting there, but technically I always walk the first ~5 minutes or so now. And then back to the shed for a full body workout. And now I’m ready for my nap. 
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Dang girl, that’s a lot!
I did a weight workout today for almost an hour that was at once invigorating and exhausting. The best kind of workout!
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An hour of weights workout is impressive! Home or gym?
Home via a YouTube workout with my trainer. Still not comfortable enough to go back in person so it’ll be all virtual this fall again.
ETA: To clarify, they are having classes capped at 12 in person, but I personally am not comfortable with going in person yet.
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Interesting morning. Supposed to be 40-45 min each on the stairmonster and running (walk). Did 44 minutes outside and then got on the stairmonster for intervals. 1:30 hard (148 steps/min) 1:00 easier. About 25 min into the session, I was in the middle of a hard intervals and the power went out. Eeks. Looked like a lot of the city was out and H texted our house was out. No storm. Not even a gust of wind. Sadly, this is not uncommon anymore. Dusted myself off and went outside for another 15-20 min of easy running. Just as I got back, the power came back on. Yay! So I did the lifting part of my workout there as it was empty. Now it’s time for junk food breakfast and a nap and hope the power stays on. Apparently, 2/3 of our feeder lines went down. No explanation why.
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Curious … are you in Texas?
Nope. I’m in southern VA. Rural area, so not an overloaded grid system issue. We lost most of our industries in the 90s and 00s so we have lots of infrastructure capacity.
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Your town ought to hook up to your stairmonster for backup power supply 
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My training partner and I set a record today - 15 miles. That was our longest run ever. Decent pace even with adding in a few extra (ok, maybe more than a few) walk intervals. I feel really good right now. I keep remembering the terrible run we had 2 weeks ago, so we needed this. A little more than halfway through our marathon training and dealing with heat and humidity.
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I’m so glad. You’re a rock star for training through this muck
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Thanks @ClassicMom98. I’m getting ice cream later.
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Finally lost two of those pounds I gained on vacation. Two more to go!
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I’ve lost most of the pounds added during our 23 day road trip in May. Just in time for our Sept trip (assuming we don’t do a Covid-worry bailout)
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Thursday was a run (treadmill) only day. I got in a 10K.
Friday was my first rest day in probably a couple weeks.
Today was a 1-rep max (testing) squat day and I PR’ed my squat. I’m using calibrated comp Kg plates, so the PR was about 6 +/- lbs. I think I had more in me. I should have went for it.
The WOD today was a 16 minute “chipper” of rowing, wall balls, power cleans and toes-to-bar.
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Another good run yesterday. This one was 12 miles (cut back week).
The lesson I have learned from the bad run 3 weeks ago is this: you can come back. One bad run/workout does not define you, it just means that you had a bad time that one day. It is possible to go forward and have an even better and stronger workout next time. Just keep moving.
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Finally I’ve been able to get in some outdoor biking. 40 miles yesterday, and 27.75 today. Hoping for more tomorrow.
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How do folks keep themselves from overdoing it and being in pain for the next several days. At the time it seems modest and there’s no pain but the next day(s) — OUCH!