apologies to triman
I had an abysmal showing at Couples but I appreciate
triman running in with me to the finish. I had a decent sleep Friday night but spent most of yesterday "muscling" the new tires on Buzz' rims. Finally had to go to BSS and have them do it. I didn't get any sort of 'loosening up' done except for a couple miles in the 'hood on the bike. I simply couldn't go attack the Couples course on tires I'd never ridden on. I made the mistake of reading my work email before going to bed and thought I'd have to send a "I respectfully disagree, this is bad for our customers" email to important people, so of course when I woke about 3:30 I couldn't get back to sleep. I was actually grateful when the alarm went off at 5:25.
The swim was even worse than Danskin (36 min??????? C'mon, I've done that course entirely breaststroke before and it took about 28) and the worst hydrilla experience I've ever had in that lake. It just kept up for at least 100m, but I was grateful just to finish. I knew the run would hurt and since I have Marble Falls next week, I didn't feel the need to run the whole thing and hurt myself real bad. So finishing was good. Hung out with friends, Erik came in from California to race with Kim,
triman introduced me to Tune, and I had breakfast tacos and beer after the finish. I never found the towels or bandanas but I have enough of both of those. I guess I was the only one with a cowbell cause I went to watch Jody as she ran in to the finish. Tune and I had a nice chat while the awards were being handed out and then she left. Coaches Cindy and Gina and I went to grab a final beer at the beer tent where we ran into Ken, his son Alex (first time triathlete!) and another guy whose name I can't remember, and we all had a good time celebrating the sport of triathlon (and Cindy & Gina's 3rd place win!). I offered to help Cindy and Gina take down the TriZones tent but first we thought it best to get our bikes out of transition as they were holding up the rack teardown. We stopped to talk to Glenn Beck for a few minutes and as we were headed to our cars, I noticed a bee was really loving the little bit of e-load that had dribbled out of my bike waterbottle. I guess it got real mad that my body was in the way and it stung me on the upper inside of my right thigh. Not just stung me, left the stinger, too. Gina said, "I'll hold your bike" and I managed to grab what I hoped was the stinger (thank goodness I had the stick on bifocal on the bottom of my sunglasses). MAN, DID THAT HURT!!!!!!!!! owwwwie! Gina was parked close and I was way at the end of the loop, so she offered to take my tribag while I rode back to my car. OUCH! OUCH!! It stung so bad it nearly brought tears to my eyes. I quickly unlocked the car, grabbed the pump spray bottle of benadryl from the passenger side door pocket and sprayed it on my thigh. Stuck my bike in the car, drove over in front of the tent and thought it might be a good idea to visit the Medical Tent, if it was still up. It was still up, but nobody was there. I helped tear down the tent, get it in Gina's car, then proceeded to try and find the real turns of the longhorm 70.3 bike course. I'd forgotten that Cindy took the printout we used the previous week and it wasn't in the car. I tried to remember what roads to turn on, and I think I did pretty well overall.
Steve and I met for a very late lunch at the north Hoover's Home Cooking. I met him there once earlier this year except when I got there the kitchen was closed. So this time I actually got to eat!
So I'll be sleeping with Prince Benadryl tonight. Got all signed up for Splash n Dash Tuesday and might go to GM swim tomorrow just to cool off.
triman running in with me to the finish. I had a decent sleep Friday night but spent most of yesterday "muscling" the new tires on Buzz' rims. Finally had to go to BSS and have them do it. I didn't get any sort of 'loosening up' done except for a couple miles in the 'hood on the bike. I simply couldn't go attack the Couples course on tires I'd never ridden on. I made the mistake of reading my work email before going to bed and thought I'd have to send a "I respectfully disagree, this is bad for our customers" email to important people, so of course when I woke about 3:30 I couldn't get back to sleep. I was actually grateful when the alarm went off at 5:25.
The swim was even worse than Danskin (36 min??????? C'mon, I've done that course entirely breaststroke before and it took about 28) and the worst hydrilla experience I've ever had in that lake. It just kept up for at least 100m, but I was grateful just to finish. I knew the run would hurt and since I have Marble Falls next week, I didn't feel the need to run the whole thing and hurt myself real bad. So finishing was good. Hung out with friends, Erik came in from California to race with Kim,
triman introduced me to Tune, and I had breakfast tacos and beer after the finish. I never found the towels or bandanas but I have enough of both of those. I guess I was the only one with a cowbell cause I went to watch Jody as she ran in to the finish. Tune and I had a nice chat while the awards were being handed out and then she left. Coaches Cindy and Gina and I went to grab a final beer at the beer tent where we ran into Ken, his son Alex (first time triathlete!) and another guy whose name I can't remember, and we all had a good time celebrating the sport of triathlon (and Cindy & Gina's 3rd place win!). I offered to help Cindy and Gina take down the TriZones tent but first we thought it best to get our bikes out of transition as they were holding up the rack teardown. We stopped to talk to Glenn Beck for a few minutes and as we were headed to our cars, I noticed a bee was really loving the little bit of e-load that had dribbled out of my bike waterbottle. I guess it got real mad that my body was in the way and it stung me on the upper inside of my right thigh. Not just stung me, left the stinger, too. Gina said, "I'll hold your bike" and I managed to grab what I hoped was the stinger (thank goodness I had the stick on bifocal on the bottom of my sunglasses). MAN, DID THAT HURT!!!!!!!!! owwwwie! Gina was parked close and I was way at the end of the loop, so she offered to take my tribag while I rode back to my car. OUCH! OUCH!! It stung so bad it nearly brought tears to my eyes. I quickly unlocked the car, grabbed the pump spray bottle of benadryl from the passenger side door pocket and sprayed it on my thigh. Stuck my bike in the car, drove over in front of the tent and thought it might be a good idea to visit the Medical Tent, if it was still up. It was still up, but nobody was there. I helped tear down the tent, get it in Gina's car, then proceeded to try and find the real turns of the longhorm 70.3 bike course. I'd forgotten that Cindy took the printout we used the previous week and it wasn't in the car. I tried to remember what roads to turn on, and I think I did pretty well overall.
Steve and I met for a very late lunch at the north Hoover's Home Cooking. I met him there once earlier this year except when I got there the kitchen was closed. So this time I actually got to eat!
So I'll be sleeping with Prince Benadryl tonight. Got all signed up for Splash n Dash Tuesday and might go to GM swim tomorrow just to cool off.