This is an add-on to my original post on July 11th.

Earlier today, I went swimming at Lake Anza, a local East Bay lake (water is slightly nasty and you will come out smelling like the by-product of ducks…). Overall, I had a nice swim, a good warm-up for this Sunday’s Half Ironman.

EXCEPT, on my drive home, I kept feeling sharp pains on the back of my neck. Did I manage to attract  freshwater leech sucking on my neck??!! Is this even possible? On another note, I am ALWAYS the first one to get bitten first (and multiple times) by mosquitoes… Needless to say, my superior visualization techniques backfired, and I was quite freaked out.

It wasn’t till I got home did I realize that I had gotten a big scratch on my neck. Probably from tucking and shoving the back zip string of my wetsuit the wrong way. Well, I now have a whole new appreciation for applying BodyGlide prior to putting on wetsuit: it not only helps you to get out of your wetsuit easier, but also prevents chafing from interestingly the back zip string (I had forgotten to apply today).

Or, maybe these silly things only happen to silly people.