I fell pretty pathetic after watching this

So last year while training for Ironman Coeur d'Alene Dave and I would go down on Friday mornings and swim in the bay in Long Beach. We would get started around 5:30am just as the sun was rising. The water is always so cold but really glassy at that time of day.

It started off like any other morning with a slow shimmy into the water. I was swimming just ahead of Dave as I rounded the buoys and was now swimming into the sunrise. It really is an awesome sight seeing the sun glistening off of the water. About 300 yards in as I was coming up for a breathe I see a massive animal (this could be an exaggeration...I tried very hard to erase this from my memory) come busting out of the water about an arms length in front on me. I have never seen anyone transition into a backstroke and scream as load as I did. I think I woke the entire city of Naples.

As I began to hyperventilate I dunked my head into the water to see what it was. As I tried to look around I couldn’t see anything beyond eight inches of my face. So I made a mad dash for the shore and as I came running out of the water an Asian man walking on the shore had seen the whole thing. Very excited he shouted at me shea…shea….shea. A shark I said…no, no…shea. He had such an accent I couldn’t understand him. I eventually came to the conclusion that it must have been the local seal that hangs out in the bay.

They funny part was Dave never knew what happened. He just kept on swimming and I wasn’t about to get back in and tell him.

Later that day Dave told me he found the ancient Chinese definition of Shea on the internet. Shea: The act of screaming like a girl….ha, ha, ha.

So know you can watch the following video and see why I feel a light pathetic...