Jack Beattie is a Central Florida sports celebrity and swimming icon. He is an NCAA All American, has won multiple national championships, set five national age group records, won 3 gold medals (including a world record in Tokyo). If that was not enough he has also swam Maui Channel.
See summary of Jack Beattie's accomplishments here.
Growing Bolder did a special on him here. I highly recommend watching it. He's very inspirational.
http://growingbolder.com/media/sports/water-sports/family-friends-and-pancakes-641362.html
Every year in Orlando, Jack Beattie opens up his home for an open water swim and pancake breakfast at his house. It is a one mile open water swim followed by a free breakfast.
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| The 9 mile run to the open water swim was HOT (like me)!! |
This year I did a 9 mile run to Jack's house. Bonnie and I then did the 1 mile swim. Following this I stuffed my mouth with the free pancakes, sausage, muffins, juice, etc. It was a great time.
I then came home and mowed the lawn and cut down my neighbors bushes that invaded my lawn.
Thus is the life of a normal, average athlete. I am not sure you will ever find a brick of Run, Swim, Mow and Bushwhacking in any training manual. :-)
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| Jack and I before the swim. I'm the dork with the goofy off-center hat. |
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| Everyone getting ready to beat me on the swim. |
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| Everyone looking for the gators. |
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| Watch out for the Florida Alligators!! |
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| I'll skip the healthy stuff and go straight for the muffins. |
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| Free, hot pancakes?!? I'm so there! |
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| Hot sausage also. |
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| YUMMY!!! |
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| Clearing the neighbor's rain forest. |
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| It took over five hours to clear everything out. |
The swim and breakfast are awesome! How awesome is that he opens up his own home!
ReplyDeleteThe neighbors yard - awful! Jim and I did about 45 mins of trimming this weekend and I was totally over it.
Nice brick workout!
I wish they would take care of their yard but they are renters so there is no use.
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MMMMM pancakes! Wait, you swam with gators? Maybe I should start swimming with them too, might make me swim a hell of a lot faster than I did yesterday in my first tri! And for the record...majority of my brick runs involve 2/3 of the tri disciplines followed by 2-3 non-athletic disciplines...we call that a super brick.
ReplyDeleteI like "Super Brick"
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YES! There is no END to my day, no matter what workouts I start with. Hubby does the mowing I do the weeding & mulching - serious back and squats :)
DeleteGO YOU running 9 hot miles there. I always thought tri's should be in reverse, esp in FL!
Sounds awesome and I am with you on the pancakes!
ReplyDeleteI love me some pancakes.
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gotta love free pancakes !!!
ReplyDeletePancakes are GREAT!! Have you done a post on pancakes yet? I bet the little one loves pancakes. I like them when they are crispy.
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