9.10.16 Super Saturday!

Thanks for your comments and congrats on the meet. I truly am living proof that Murphy's law applies! I guess doing an extra lap of the bike course at Worlds (if that's indeed what happened--the only other explanation for what I saw/experienced would be falling asleep for 20+ km, or riding into the Twilight Zone) is a kind of a tri tale for the ages. OMG I hope that never happens during a full IM. Can you imagine someone doing that at Kona?

Anyway, 3500m of swimming. Stuff that I don't usually do during the race season--lots of IM's (medley, not Ironman). It was a hot sticky day. Hadn't planned on that much but pool just felt so good and avoiding work I didn't want to do!

This morning it was hit the road at 3:45 to make it to Monticello for my second (and last) triathlon for the season. I wasn't expecting it to actually be held as the forecast was calling for thunderstorms, and they had a tornado warning the night before. It rained for pretty much the entire event, from just a mist to a steady rain.

I was about a minute off on my swim (sighting was horrible...), but I was almost a minute faster on the run. I think the run was quicker because the bike was about a mile shorter at 11 miles.

It was a fun race. There were only 33 participants, so it was a bit friendlier than the other race I did with over 200 racers. (That's not to say the Valpo Tri wasn't friendly; it was just a lot more people...)

Since they are an hour ahead of us, I was able to run the race, go to the awards lunch, and still be home by 11:30 in time to pick my daughter up from swimming practice.

I did get a bit out of routine though with my plank and pushups. I didn't do those until about 7:30 tonight instead of my usual first thing in the morning while the coffee brews.

J White