Wyld Hair On A Tangent Group -FULL (Page 15)

More birds!  The gulls were all over the place Sunday afternoon.

I'm hesitant to post it, but I had a pain free brick workout this morning.  Even woke up without having to limp around until the PF loosened up.  Not that I think I'm cured or anything, just that it's the first truly good morning in a while.  Crossing my fingers for more like it.

I knew I spoke to soon.  Home sick today.  Felt like I had the flu.  Achy, deep cough, head wanted to explode.  I had started feeling funky last night and I guess it ramped up over the night.  Got a decadron shot, some pills, and some cough syrup with codeine in it.  So yeah, I just took some of that syrup and I'm gonna go sleep this thing off. 

Just sucks because I was all set to finally get in a good week with 4-5 days of running for the first time since the PF had flared up.  Oh well... stuff happens.

Back at work, but not back at working out.  I may call this week a draw and just deal with it.  Spent the last two days doped up on that sweet codeine cough syrup.  My wife was seriously messing with me last night.  Apparently I was just spaced out.  Closed my eyes for what I thought was a few seconds and it turns out I slept through the last hour of American Idol.

Anyway, still feeling weird up in the head a bit, but good enough to get some work done so I don't fall to far behind.  Got our dude's weekend planned for this weekend, and I want to be able to leave a little early tomorrow.  Basically, about 8 of us that all hung out together in college, have been in each others weddings, etc. all head back to Starkville, MS (where Miss. State is), hit up our favorite bar from college on Friday night, then we head to a steak house on Saturday night.  It's the large ribeye and a bottle of wine each or else you get mercilessly ridiculed.  Not exactly good for training   But it's good for good times, and you gotta have good times.

Finally registered for my first tri since the New Orleans 70.3 in April 2009.  All I've been able to do since then is the MS Blues Half Mary.  A year of a jacked up hip, now PF, and no swimming pretty much has to come to and end.  It's the Kind of Hill sprint in Tupelo, MS.  Love the race as I did it back in 2008.  A fun little sprint course that is now wetsuit legal since they moved to May 1st instead of early August.  Should be a lot of fun.

Guess I should start swimming, huh?

Gonna take these next two days off as well.  Got a lingering cough that I don't want to irritate.  I'll be back on the horse hopefully by Sunday afternoon.

Since we are essentially a 3 person discussion group (with a few sprinkles here and there of course )  I feel like I can post this here. I go to a Y in probably the most affluent area of my city.  I'm sure you both know "old money"  "old dusty money", crazy property taxes, etc...  Its probably the nicest gym in Birmingham with hands down the best resources for a triathlete.  So its definitely the gym I need to be in.  Disclaimer - If you are easily offended please do not read any further.

 I recently had to recruit a girl friend to come to the gym and workout with me when I'm not in a spin or swim class.  Recently there have been a lot of non-straight guys openly hitting on all the straight guys in the gym.  It started a few weeks ago, and a few of us were sort of laughing about it and trading creepy stories and what not.  Well the issue began to escalate and has gotten out of hand.  One of them has gotten one of the guys (we'll call him "Joe") I swim with's email address (from the Y system/somebody that works there- likely from the Masters swim list we think).  The first message was that of hey, I've noticed you at the gym youre Joe right? and then started asking him about whether he is "bicurious" etc.  Joe didn't respond, he got another one.  Joe didn't respond then got another one this time with a self photo from the neck down, unclothed in a provocative pose.  WAY over the line.  If we can pinpoint who it is, we can turn them in.  Now  I've had one that was trying to find out my training schedule, when I was going swimming next, etc... He, then said, Now you're name's "Joe" right? Hmmmmm...

Anyway,  He showed up the next day (I was leaving spin class to go for a short run) and asked me "Are you not swimming?" (I might've mentioned that I would be swimming during that time). THen he asked me to go swim with him (in a creepy manner)- this guy is not a triathlete, but a gym socialite (mid 40s pretty good shape)  I acted like I still had my ipod on, and motioned I was running as I walked out the door.  Right before this happened I told my spin instructor about him creeping me out and she said "yeah, he's been texting a couple other guys that teach the spin classes too.  He comes into the pool sometimes I think just to see who's there and watch."  Also, in the locker room there are "guys" who stare at you while you undress/shower and there will be a thousand open benches and lockers and they will come stand right next to you.  There have been "situations" in the saunas and hot tubs too.  And though its a nice facility, I've stopped using the main locker room needless to say. 

Anyway, has anyone ever heard of this or how best to handle it?  Again its not just me.  There is a group of 5 of us that have had some of this go on lately.  Fortunately, my experience has been on the tame side compared to the others.  There are a couple of non-straight guys that work there and are friendly with me and thats fine, bc they do they are doing their job and they do it well.  So what do I do, do I say there is a group of guys that are bothering me.  People are crazy, and I don't want to start a $#!t storm if I can get around it.  I can handle myself pretty well if I have to physically protect myself (growing up in the country has its benefits, even for a "city boy"), but I feel a confrontation coming on if this doesn't stop soon.  Therefore I brought one of my friends to keep these guys at bay, or at least give them a clue, actually it was her idea.  Of course a couple of them asked her if she was with me and she told them we were together.  She's also easy on the eyes, so win/win for me

Do I turn them in, and to who?  How exactly would I start that conversation?

So I finally get better and I come back to creepy gym stories.  I knew there was a reason I stopped going to the Y.

Best thing to do is take it up with management.  They usually take stuff like that very, very, very seriously, especially when notified.  Last thing they want is some sort of harassment incident to occur with them having turned a blind eye.

They actually had to handle something similar to this at the YMCA I used to go to, except it was a 60 year old man creeping out a lot of the women. 

In the locker room once, I actually had a naked guy ask me if I had found Jesus.  Sorta stood there for a moment and finally said, "Probably something you should have asked when you had pants on."

Congrats!  Trail running seems like it would be a lot of fun.  Might have to give it a go sometime.

Well... launched into a coughing fit two miles into my run this morning. 

So that sucked.

Got the camera back out again yesterday.  This is from Pelahatchie Bay.  It's basically a bunch of coves and creeks off of the Ross Barnett Reservoir.  It's about a 3 minute drive from my house, and they are finishing a bike/walk path that completely encircles it.  It'll be just over 13 miles.

Anybody racing anytime soon?

I signed up for a sprint on May 1st.  It's in Tupelo, MS and they say it'll be wetsuit legal, which will be my first race under 70.3 distance where I'll have to worry about that.  I actually don't like swimming with a wetsuit that much.  The buoyancy messes with me big time.