training stuff
With my last race a few weeks in the rear view mirror, I’m fully on board with training for the full Ironman in late August. I admit that my focus completely flagged between St. George and Coeur d’Alene. I missed many workouts and completely stopped all my self-care (foam rolling and stretching).
Race day certainly had a different start then any I’ve ever had. For the first time on a race day morning, for both for me and for DJ, neither of our alarms went off. We were supposed to be in the lobby ready to leave at 5am for the 6am race start. DJ startled me out of sleep at 5:05am. Oops.
I start blogs on a fairly frequent basis. Not blog _posts_ mind you, but entire blogs. I just logged into my old WordPress account and found one I started in 2006 and just made a single post:
I am currently sitting in a hotel room in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, prepping for another half Ironman this weekend. It feels a little unreal given that last weekend, I was out on the Olympic peninsula on my fully loaded mountain bike with Komorebi. The weekend before a race is supposed to be all about rest; certain schlepping camping gear up and down trails, and then hiking 2 miles awkwardly carrying bike bags to a campground counts as rest, right?
My tri-nerd metamorphosis is now complete: I bought a triathlon bike. As it turns out, there _is_ a difference between tri bikes and TT bikes–tri bikes are not UCI legal. So I guess I won’t be doing any UCI time trials after all.
Somehow I managed to push life away for a long time to focus on training. From January until race day in early May, I avoided going out of town, doing any major house work or having to work late. Life came back to me in an avalanche the second I got back from Utah.