Sweet cars on here! I am embarrassed to post a pic of mine, anyway don't think I have one. It is a charcoal gray Hyundai Accent.
(Two colors were on sale, and it was that or banana yellow. Gray is probably my second least favorite color....after yellow.
) It kinda sorta fits a bike without removing the wheel, if you don't have a passenger up front or don't really care about their comfort and well-being!
(Always makes me think of a guy I used to know on our now-defunct tri club. A confirmed bachelor, he had removed the passenger seat of his sub-compact so his bike could fit in comfortably!
)
Anyway, Sunday was "fun" in kind of a sick way. My coach wanted me to do a 20-minute run threshold test, and we decided that for traffic control purposes I'd do it at the Terry Fox run, which at least here is much more of a "happening" than a "run". There are no prizes or age groups. Lots of people stop for coffee en route. So that meant muscling my way onto the front line ahead of
(not exaggerating here
) about 15,000 people
(probably 95% walking the whole way
) along with a few runners from our school, using them as a human shield to avoid the strollers, rollerblades, and people who sprint the first 100m in their flip-flops, then walk, doing the first km faster than I wanted to stay clear of the scrum, then settling into a threshold test that was supposed to be 20 minutes. Unfortunately the course was only about 4 km, I hit the finish line in 16:50 something
(Oh, wish I could turn back time and it were really 5K!
), maybe #5 or 6 overall and the first woman, but despite being high-fived by a bunch of people from our school had to then KEEP RUNNING for almost another kilometer through traffic, etc. I was trying to keep going REALLY hard but felt so ridiculous--people kept trying to point me back toward the course! Didn't now whether to puke or crack up--came close to doing both when I could finally stop!
Edited by Hot Runner 2015-11-30 6:30 AM