Day Trip to Austin

 

photos: stolen from Terray's facebook

We had a great morning warm up swim, wasn't too crowded as a lot of the teams fly in on Monday instead of Sunday.  We stopped about 30 minutes into the 70 minuteish drive at olive garden where we all partook in some mass soup, salad & breadsticks.  Back on the road we had a scenic drive and made it into Austin going right to the pool.  While walking in we saw Brendan Hansen and Dave Walters.  We watched the the finishing parts of the womens workout and only the start of the mens.  The women met a lot of coaches and a few swimmers.  I was a little worried that they were getting bored, but they assured me that was not the case.

(for those who don't know I have had the privilege of working the UT swim camp 7 summers and really enjoy the UT team, campus and the City in general).

Afterwards we did a quick "tour da austin" with stops at Mellow Johnnys (Lance Armstrong's rather expensive bike shop), the Coop & Tylers, the women bought a few souvenirs ... I have a new pair of Sanuk flip flops (and Kim has a pair waiting for her too!) ... we dined at central market with UT swim camp director Jon Alter (Central Market is a made to order type of wegmans) 

A supply run at Wal Mart on the way back and we are all set to go.  8:15 wake up call / 8:45am depature for a warm up swim tomorrow.  The team will have some down time in the afternoon at the Riverwalk (but I will be calling it the RiverSitDown....so they don't get their legs too tired) while I have a coaches meeting. 

Should mention that our sweet van also still has the free Sirius Sat Radio so we have been rockin' out (when i say we I definitely mean the 4 girls and not me) to Sirius hits 1 and a little bit of the pulse (Channel 12) after hearing the same 20 songs for 2 days... i have yet to subject them to any talk radio.