Bike it to the MAX in June Ghoulies!!! (Page 71)

Had my coffee...feeling slightly less groggy even with my run earlier...haven't been sleeping well for the past few days, waking up every few hrs. Probably just because it is quite a bit warmer right now than it has been in the past few weeks and I wake up needing to throw blankets off and then I wake up cause I'm hot...then cold...then hot..and so on. Need time to adjust--which is just sad because its only about 23C...I'm in trouble for my 70.3 if Calgary gets hot like it normally does in August.

I don't know how to make it work :'(

booo

Just going to avoid it and do something else till me supervisor comes back from lunch...I guess I could go mix some solutions up for my experiments next week...bringing back the intro chem! Woohoo

I need him to confirm a drug dose anyways...fail...

So story time...

Its about my bro. He's 19 and he's one of those genetically predisposed "athlete" guys. He's about 6'3" and prob right now about 165-170lbs (athlough he will tell you he weighs 190+...lies). So anyways, he played hockey for years and when he was in grade 12 he suffered 2 concussions within about 4 months and was having trouble...so when hockey ended, he said he didn't know if he was going to go back at all the upcoming year. I guess he just didn't like/want to play anymore. So my Dad convinced him to try out track as he's always been able to run even though he has never run before. After his first city track meet he came home and said that the UofA had scouted him (the school i go to). He was always one of the "just make it through high school and graduate types", so suffice it to say he couldn't go an do track for the university yet. So he joined the Edmonton Sprint Academy and was working on upgrading his high school (which surprised me as he never had any ambition before to do it, but he's doing it, which is great). They originally started him in the 400m. He's not really a pure sprinter though so it would take him till the 3rd turn to gain speed, and then he would crush the field. I've been around alot of talented athletes in different sports and I've never seen anything like it. Its one of those, "you know, maybe he could make the olympics?"...I was never that good and I will never be that good.

Anyways, his coaches figure he's not a 400m runner, but instead a 800m/1500m...so they are switching his training and won't let him race this season. He says its so he doesn't get injured. Ok, fair enough. I get a text from him about a week ago asking how much my bike cost. I told him alot and wanted to know why. He tells me, "well, I'm going to start doing triathlon and I need to get a bike"...

Ok...wait...what? You're going to do triathlon? I've been away for 2 months and he decides he's going to do triathlon? I sent a message back to him asking him if he realized that tri=swimming...kind of as a joke...he writes back and tells me he's been swimming 4x a week and its starting to get better...I have no idea what is going on...I told him not to buy a bike right away and just use my other bike that is at home for a bit--its a men's hybrid and would work for him for the time being. He doesn't even know if he likes the sport yet...

I got an email from his yesterday...he went and bought a bike! Decent bike--Specialized Allez Triple...$850 or so (I told him to not spend over $1000 for his first bike!). He was telling me all the specs...(I didn't even know he knew anything about bikes)...

Just don't know what is going through his head. I mean I'm not complaining. We definately got closer when he switched sports from hockey to track. (I think maybe we finally had somethign in common because training for swimming and track are something alike and swimming and hockey are nothing alike). I just have no idea where this triathlon thing came from. I have a feeling he's not going to go back to track...which I guess is okay and its his decision to make and I should just be "good on you" about it...but I feel that he's gonna miss out big from not staying in track because thats where his strength lies...

Just confused  That is all...i will wait and see how it plays out...I don't really have a point or question to go with the story...its just a story.

(Still waiting on my supervisor...haha)