I suppose I should write another post before I compete.
Ever since the funeral, things haven't really been going according to plan with my training. In fact they've hardly been going at all. Looking back on the blog, I'm seeing that the last time I really mentioned the house was over a month ago. Well, we bought one. Yep, the amazing low credit score wonder managed to eek out a loan and by his family a place to live. Imagine that. It's a pretty nice house, if a little outdated, and I've been finding little daily projects to make my life a little more interesting.
On the down side, moving fell entirely on my shoulders. As did cleaning the old place, and fixing the electrical, plumbing, and ventilation of the new house enough for us to move in.
Unfortunately, that left precious little time for training. Honestly, I really don't know how those people training for Ironman do it. My training schedule, at the worst, was just a hair more than 9 hours a week, and that was pushing it for me. A quick check on Beginnertriathlete.com shows a first time ironman competitor would quickly move up to 15-18 hours a week. Thats pretty rough from where I stand.
Another bummer is that the forecast is calling for T-storms on Race day Sunday. On the plus side, it could actually help me out. I'm good at maintaining a speed, however slow, no matter what whereas I would assume a normal triathlete will likely suffer a bit in the wind and rain. So like a steamroller with a stuck throttle, I'll creep my way to the finish, the victorious tortoise. Yeah right, but it sounds good anyway.
Wednesday was our weekly ride and one of the few things that I've kept up with for the most part. One of the regulars came up with a great idea for eithe next week or sometime soon. The La Crosse area has put up a bunch of local artists' concrete herons decorated in the artists personal style, all over the city and a bit beyond. 30 some in all, these all get auctioned off for charity later this year. Well, its become a kind of a local challenge to go out and find each one and take its picture. Joe's idea was to do an "alleycats" kind of ride in one of the coming weeks to see how many of these pictures we can get in a certain amount of time. We'd split into teams with disposable cameras (to discourage cheating) and meet back up at the local Walmart later on to get the pictures developed. Since some of the herons are at a good distance, we'd assign a points system, and obviously the team with the most points wins. Yea! Sound like fun to me.
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