Subject: RE: Tupper Lake Tinman 1/2 IM.... Deb_B - 2004-10-15 3:34 PMEllen, it sounds like there is a story behind your reply. Yes?Deb oh how perceptive you are Deb! LOL Yes, of course there is a story I did Tupper Lake/ Tinman in '01. We waited to long to make reservations and had huge problems with the owners of the place we got stuck staying at. Long but funny story, I'll tell you next summer. Then off to the race. I thought I could wing it, just muscle my thru since I was not adequately trained. Wrong! 50 minutes in the water, the only person I beat out of the water was a man with one arm. No problem finding my bike at T1, it was all alone. The bike was 28 out and 28 back. So on the way out I never saw the storm coming up from behind me. It was uuuuugly. I turned around and rode right into it. Huge, torrential down pour all the way back. It was cold, and it hurt. Bike leg took me 3:56. I was pissed. Got to T2, freezing, soaking wet, and so were my running shoes. I took my chip off, headed over to turn it in, and who was holding the clipboard at the finish line but my husband. I knew he was about to give me grief for dropping out, so I just flashed daggers at him that said "don't even open your mouth." My friend who was with him was much more understanding, even sympathetic. So that was my one and only DNF. Someday I'm going back to kick its butt......... |