Salt Lake City

So haven't written in awhile. I spent a week in Salt Lake City,Utah. It is a gorgeous city. I took the High School Youth Group up there for the YU convention. It was an amazing experience. Although I had to walk like 4 miles each day so I didn't run as much as I would have liked. But the upside is I did read the 7th Harry Potter book. It is amazing I am really looking forward to see them come out as movies. But I spent over 48 hours in a 15 passenger van with 16 people yes I know that the math doesn't work out. There was a suicidal jumper that stopped all the traffic on the highway and lots of construction and then gas tanks exploding on the way home. It was interesting to see all the things that happened on our trip. That is what makes road trips so much fun. So now I am back and back to work. But since I am leaving for Mexico City in three weeks I have to work like a mad man. So I won't be getting much training in. But after Mexico city I am all over training.

Plan X

So when it comes to racing you always have a primary plan and a secondary plan. Well today I had to fall back to plan X. Plan X is everything you have to finish. Saturday I was feeling great I went out for a nice run and then came back and did a little stretch out swim. I took a shower finished getting ready for tommorow. Then stretched and went to bed. I slept well enough got up after a few hits of the snooze.
I set it that way because when I have to get up at work it is a have to get out of bed situation so I like to relax in bed for a little bit when I am not at work.
I got up ate breakfast and was feeling really good, aired up the tires and loaded the bike and off I went. I set up transition I was one of the first so I got a good spot. I went and warmed up and felt like the king of the world.
So the race starts, and I wait and wait for nearly 30 min unit it is my wave. So I start on dry land and have a good swim. I make the .25 mile run to transition. Find all of my stuff on the ground since I was in the next to last wave everybody is gone. The bike start off really hard and never got any easier. I couldn't understand why I was working so hard. Then I saw that the rear brake was rubbing on the tire. So I stopped and fixed that. The damage had been done. I started to get dizzy a little after that. I finished the bike and had a quick transition. (The new trivent shoes are awesome.) So hoping that the dizzyness had subsided I took off to be at my 6:30 pace. After a quater mile I knew that one wasn't going to happen so I backed off a little bit. Still I was getting dizzier. The whole world was spinning. So I would run as long as I could and then I would have to walk otherwise my stomach would be laying on the ground. So coming through the finish was interesting but I finished and sometimes that is all that you can do. Not every race can finish strong. So hopefully the next race wil be better

Busy Day Followed by Wet Ride

I don't understand why people don't sleep in Galveston, but they don't. So I got around 2.5 hours of sleep. No biggie if I can come home and sleep but I can't have a busy day on Thursday. I get home late because of late call, eat some food, run to the good ole YMCA swim a relaxed mile, afterwards run back home, my left leg is still bothering me. Get home eat food ( I really like food) take a shower. Drive all the way to Sugar Cycles and pick up Philip's sweet specialized transition, and some racing wheels. Home sweet home crawl on the couch and sleep. Wake up late for riding with my Uncle, dang it. Today is supposed to be a moderately hard ride with a few Kemah Bridges to get a good bike ride in. Cruisin everything is going great the bike is riding great I am feeling really good. On the way home soakin wet, good ole Texas Weather, nothing like riding home in a monsoon. All is well made it home nice and safe sip some Endurox and take another shower. Then surrender to the couch again for more sleep.