PirateGirl's group - CLOSED - Pirate ship has sailed! (Page 11)

Hope everyone had a great weekend!

I volunteered at a tri not too far from Tucson yesterday (the Sahuarita Lake tri). I got to work swim exit to pull folks out of the "lake" (more like a large, gross swimming pool) and yell numbers because they do MANUAL recording of splits at this race. It was crazy! Then we headed over to T2 to record bike to run splits manually. I wish this race outfit would buy or rent a chip timing system.

Any new Goals of the Week? I swam on Sunday, so I squeeked in my goal of swimming 3X last week. Whew! This week my goal is for the Wed night aquathlon race. There's a little race series they do each summer with an 800 yd swim and 5K run, and this week is the first race. Goal for this week is to do the race in 45 min or under. We'll see how it goes!

I'll be in Samos for a week in late July!
Dunno how my training will stay while on travel!

I'm thinking about signing up for a tri in the Netherlands - we pass through there to/from Greece.  Would be kinda cool to race internationally but despite the distances for the "fun" length tri -- Swim 300 m - Mountain bike 15 km - Run 5 km -- it's (I guess) known as a rough tri; here's the descriptions:

SWIM - SWIM - SWIM - SWIM The first leg in this off road challenge is a swim in the North Sea, with a 'Le Mans' style start from the beach. In the race series, the athletes need to swim 1500 meters. The swim leg is divided into two parts, which are separated by a short running stretch on the beach. The participants in the fun series swim about 300 meters (once around a beach dam). The big opponents in this leg are the tidal currents, the surf and high waves.
MTB - MTB - MTB - MTB Shaken up by the swim, the athletes continue with 30 hard kilometers of mountain biking on an off-road course leading them over the beach, through the dunes and over horse trails. During the bike leg, the contestants face ever present winds, sucking wet beach, tidal pools and loose sands. Drafting is allowed, but nontheless this leg still can be a killer.
	RUN - RUN - RUN - RUN And when this all is done, the challenge isn't over. To top the whole thing off, the athletes will have to complete a tough run of 10 kilometers, before reaching the redemption of the finish line. Besides the easy dune trails and the hard sands near the water line, the contestants have to deal with ploughing through lots of loose sand and climbs on and off the dunes.

The Greece/NL trip is a business trip for my hubby, adding the spouse flight/food cost is a minimal way to get an exotic vacation!  No business connections in Kansas .

Looks like I'll need to rent a wetsuit in addition to a bike if I do the NL tri.   We do have friends in NL so I'll fire them an email and learn what options there are -- if they are willing to investigate for me.

Good job on getting some training in your weekend BigMama!  And everybody else... I had a light weekend but am back at it, though, unfortunately today I awoke with a sore throat.   I'm supposed to do a brick today, we'll see what I manage.  I'm thinking I'll wait to evening and do it without the kids, my body doesn't need the additional weight to pull/push today.  grump.

Ha ha...I was just thinking the same thing. I'm jealous of all the exotic race locations! I would LOVE to see Greece someday. Hopefully we can live vicariously through Cynthia and Elizabeth's pics!

I've got back-to-back XTERRA race weekends coming up. This weekend is Show Low, AZ and the next...oh wait you're gonna be SO JEALOUS...is in Farmington, NM. Woohoo! Yeah! I know, I know, contain the excitement. Farmington is one happenin' place baby!

The hubby and I are making a mini-vacation out of it. After Show Low we're going to drive around the Four Corners area and see Canyon de Chelly, Monument Valley, and Natural Bridges Monument. I've never been up that way, so we're planning for lots of hiking and biking. Then on to Farmington.

Anyways, my connection to BT may be off and on (if at all) next week, so you guys and gals keep the ship a sailin'!

We won't have a chance to drive all the way up to Moab this trip, but if they keep the same schedule between these two XTERRA races next year, we may do it next time. I've never been to Moab, and the slickrock playgrounds look like a blast. Sedona has a little bit, but Moab is ALL slickrock. I'd also like to hit Frutia sometime and Durango.

I'm just gonna have to quit my job. This work thing really gets in the way of fun!

OK, I sent my Dutch friend an email asking what he knows about renting bikes and wetsuits.  From what I can read on the english language pages, signup is offered day-of if all spaces aren't filled... so I'll mull it over a bit longer.

meanwhile I seem to have caught another cootie bug from my kids - my tickle throat of the AM is now quite achy.  I want soup for dinner

I got to see a piece of trash steal a $4000.00 bike today! He was checking out a carbon mountain bike, out of the corner of my eye this guy slams into the front door of the store with the bike, jumps on and of he went. It happened very fast, I dropped the helmet I was shopping for, quickly glanced the store because at first I thought he was pissed or something. I chased him anyway although he had a good start, I yelled attemting to get him to turn around or hesitate so I could catch up, he got too far ahead. The employees in the store came out on bikes, he was about 100 yards away and I pointed him out, they could barely ride bikes, how sad this was becomming ! No security, no plan, no effort, its like they almost deserved it, Im sure the guy thanked them for having the pedals on too, ever wonder why pedals are not on bikes at the store? All the customers were amazed I even knew what had happened, I could care less because I did not catch him. They did however give me a 50% discount for my effort!

WHOA! That really sucks. I never noticed the pedal thing, but now that you mention it, it really makes sense. Thieves suck.

Cool that you got a 50% discount. What a crazy day!

Speaking of Captains, I was kidnapped by Carl Junior today, has anyone tried the new Captain Crunch shake? They should be illegal! I did !

Got my new BT tri top and BT tri bag, way cool, look for future race pics!

I kicked my cootie bug and did a mini brick today.  So far feel OK, hopefully this virus is outta here.

I called my muddy-buddy buddy since we were going to workout together this weekend and she was down all week with the upchuck flu.  yech.   So we made a midweek appt with hopes we'll both be healthy... and healthy next weekend for the race!

Have fun travelers!   I hope for a healthy next few weeks months and we'll see where my training takes me.  I think I need to reconnect with the spouse to make sure there's a family commitment to my fun...  I get a vague feeling he's looking at june 21 as "light at end of tunnel" whereas I'm seeing the NL tri in late July and a 5K in late June and and and...  hmmmm.