T minus 22 days.     Rest day.

It has come to my attention that at some point in the next 22 days I will need to combine events in some fashion.  You know, do more than one thing in a row.  For training.  So when the actual event day comes I won't finish the swim and be so used to simply collapsing onto terra firma crying with the pure relief of a still beating heart that I will forget there are two thirds of the race yet to go.  So I am contemplating which two things to combine and logistically  how to do it.  I have heard tell of this thing called "transition." Apparently you are supposed to move smoothly from one event to the next: swim to bike then bike to run.  Perhaps I should start with a combined swim / bike day.  Let's envision how this might go.
The town pools have just opened so that is where I will now do my swims.  (So the whole town can see me.   Because swimming in front of the Y crowd alone wasn't wonderful enough,   I now have the opportunity bring my Rubinesque self to the local pool and show off my patented flailing arm / leg doggie paddle to all my neighbors, friends and coworkers.  It's fine.  I'm sure I'll never see any of them again).    So how does this work exactly?  I peddle up to the pool already wearing my bathing suit, park my bike right next to a lounge chair, clamp my goggles / suction cups onto my eyes,  jump in, do my fun fun swim,  climb out, pry the suction cups off my eyes, put a helmet over my pink bathing cap,  plop my soaking wet self onto said bike, wave to my new audience and ride off?
Why yes, that sounds like an amazingly smooth transition to me.   I can hardly wait.