I took a few months off from writing this thing. I sort of let it drift away for a couple of weeks and, then just forgot about the whole thing. Kinda stupid of me. However, there are a thousand blogs that say the same dumb stuff. Do I have anything new and interesting to say? Not really. Lots has happened since my last post.
I have been road riding a lot more, actually competed in a sprint triathlon last month (and did terribly). Ill talk about the triathlon for just a minute. I trained for about 4 weeks for this thing. This was probably not the smartest of ideas, since I could just barely complete 500meters swim continuously by the time the triathlon came around.
The swim was absolutely horrible, and it totally winded me. My first transition took almost 5 minutes because I was trying to catch my breath and took my sweet-ass time getting ready. Of course the ride was my strongest leg - I averaged about 19 miles an hour. Unfortunately, I got tagged with a 2 minute penalty for 'drafting' which is a complete crock. I'm sure of where the ref got me, too. There was a big group of riders all riding in a pack going around 16 (since i was slow as hell on my swim, I had to pass about a million slow-pokes on the bike) and I went around them. I guess I didn't go around far enough? Anyway - after realizing I probably got written up for a penalty (near the end of the ride) I pretty much gave up the ghost. I just jogged around the 3 mile course at a ridiculously slow 11min/mile pace. Whatever. I finished it. After the run I felt absolutely fine. I guess I am used to a lot more than an hour and a half workout/race, and in retrospect it was alot of fun. I just better work on my swimming and running if I want to do another.
Speaking of races. The 8 hour MTB race in San Felasco is coming up - and I wont be participating. Its just god-awful hot, and Ive only been riding 70 or so miles a week. I also tweaked my back, and that put me out for the last 5 days. Last week I rode a measly 10 miles before I just had to call it off. Trying to mtb with back/neck pain is freaking impossible.
Anyway, I have pics from the tri that I will post eventually.
maybe.
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