Ah, another weekend that was

Ah, another weekend that was over too soon. I stayed in on Friday night to chill and recover from a hectic week of traveling and work, and to go to bed early because I had to get up at 5 a.m. Saturday to drive to Lake Jackson to shoot a relay triathlon.
I had never seen a relay triathlon before, and it was pretty interesting. There is a swim, bike, and two run segments, and it’s done in the following order: swim, run, run, bike. I don’t quite understand why the order is changed (from the standard swim-bike-run), nor do I understand why there are two running segments but still only one swim and one bike. It seems to me that a relay triathlon should just be 3 people doing the standard three segments. But it was still interesting, and fun to shoot.
I didn’t even mind driving to Lake Jackson — it’s only an hour and change from Clear Lake, and I enjoyed getting out of the city and into the Texas countryside. The only downer was that it rained on and off all morning, so I was pretty damp by the time I climbed back into the car to come home. I did manage to protect my camera from the elements by creating a makeshift camera rain jacket out of a plastic bag that had been spending time in my trunk. (Or whatever you call the back of an Xterra. It’s not really a trunk, I guess.) Maybe it’s time to order a “real” rain cover for my camera. I’m probably lucky I made it this long without having to shoot a race in the rain.
After getting home and taking a 2-hour nap (and waking up extremely groggy — this is why I am anti-nap), I headed to our first Gilruth soccer game of the season in which we had no subs, played in the rain, and got completely slaughtered by the best team in the league. Sigh. I am really out of shape for soccer. It’s good to be playing again but frustrating to know that it’ll be at least a month or two before I really get back in game shape.
Saturday night Jo was in town so we all went to dinner at Mely’s to hear her stories of flight attendent training and waiting to be called for duty. It was good to see her. After that I went down the road to Chris’s to watch the second half of the UT-OSU game with the guys (Chris, Edgar, Ron, Randy, Phil, Phil’s girlfriend Heather, and Nacho). Since UT won, the mood was happy at the end of the game.
I spent almost all of yesterday watching baseball and working on homework for my graphic design class. Our typographic picture is due today, and here’s what I finally came up with: my running shoe made out of running-related words and sentences.

I think it came out pretty well. I’m nervous because I’m not sure if it’s exactly what the professor was looking for. Well, scratch that, I know it fits the assignment, but I guess I’m just not confident in how “good” it is. I like it, but then again, I have no experience taking this kind of class. Tonight we will all talk for a couple minutes about why we chose to do what we did, and how we did it, so I guess I’ll see what everyone else came up with and figure out whether mine is indeed good or not!
(Side note: I just learned an interesting fact about the internet. My blog was not displaying the picture when it was in CMYK color. I had to convert to RGB. I did not know that.)
And finally, if you like my photoblog, check out Scene From My Life, where I’m the featured photographer this week.