The doosy!
Sorry I've been late to update.. not that anyone should really care..
but I've been busy at work and I hate going on the computer when I get home.
So let the race report begin. First, the drive up with the gf took 5.5 hours with a couple of stops for food and gas. It was really great.. she made the ride up there go fast... we saw some potential racers (they had tribikes on or in their cars) and wanted to make good luck signs.. but we didn't.. no paper.. we arrived in Santa Cruz at about 2 and hit the expo... what a disappointment! Booths are nice and the shirt is rad but how in the world do they not have gels!!! I didn't buy any before the race because I thought I could buy them.. NOPE!!! FUCK ME!!! After that hit the boardwalk then headed off to the hotel, checked in and another WTF!!! I have the timing chip, but no ankle bracelet. First, I
thought.. oh maybe they just record your time as you come into the transitions (they did this by hand at camp pendlet0n).. so I go back and ask one of the volunteers, "Hi, I didn't get a strap for my timing chip." She reaches into a box and hands me a plastci wrist band.. like the fluorescent ones you get for clubs.. dammit!! I already have one of these.. and maybe a big problem.. what if it doesn't fit around my ankle? FUCK!!! Here I was laughing at a tri company giving out free timing chip straps.. I'm such a fool... anyway, I tried it on before Ileft and it was loose...
Got back to the hotel, picked up the gf and headed out to find some gels. Rite@id.. nope! TraderJ0es.. nope! "Excuse me miss.. is there a Target around here?" She just laughed at me and said no... FUCK!!!! Then the gf suggest GNC.. SWEET there's one in town... drive towards it.. not knowing the streets and come across an outdoors store.. SWEEET!!! Pulled over and bought 6 strawberry banana.. fweeh.. now my heart can rest.. Time to go check the run so the gf knows where to cheer me on.. We went to the turn around spot and kept driving for what seemed like longer than 6.5 miles.. turned around and checked if we missed a turn.. Nope... turned around again and went further.. YUP! 6.5 miles is a long time. .even in the car.. oh man the run is gonna suck major ass! After that, we had dinner and back to the hotel.
We turned in pretty early, for us, 10pm. I woke up to our neighbor playing some damn stoner music.. something to do with weed.. couldn't go back to sleep **highlight for more information** and got frisky with the gf.. good thing it didn't last too long.. dammit!!! no sex before a race!!! Got up at 5am, showered and headed out.. late check out was 2pm
so I couldn't come back and shower.. oh well..
Got to the race and parked my bike, got body marked and headed to the water.. Side note.. gf had her new $600 purse with her and the permanent ink rubbed off my skin and onto the handle.. oops!! dang my tattoo!! the body marker had to put it on my forearm cause of it.. ahh well.. headed to the beach and tested the water.. NICE!! not too cold.. my body temp should warm up pretty fast.. 5... 4... 3... 2... 1!!!! GO!!! Run into the water and start swimming.. still with the pack.. had to push, dunk, get dunked, kicked in the ribs, kicked in the arm and elbowed in the head... GOOD TIMES!! combat swimming!! after a few minutes thepack evened out.. or they're all faster than me.. hee hee!! OR!! I swam off course!! I pick the last two!! I stopped swimming and was lookedover to my right.. oops I'm a good 50 meters from everyone.. ahh well..
keep swimming to the buoy.... got there and still see people with the same color cap (who started a the same time).. SWEET! I'm not last!! turned headed toward the beach.. the announcer said to aim for the bottom part of the hotel... so I did.. oh wait.. he meant the bottom part where it meets the ramp.. FUCK!! off course again.. and I think I
hit some good current and wasn't moving for a while.. hee hee!! One of the lifeguards had to escort me back to the pack.. SWEET!! Green caps!!! and yellow.. and orange.. and red.. AH FUCK! Keep swimming!! by now, my surf wetsuit (I waited too long to rent one.. and the place that I thought would have it only had sleeveless ones) worked my neck.. see pics below.
Out of the water and into the transition (about a two blocks). Saw the gf cheering me on and man that felt really good. Took off the wetsuit and put on the bike gear.... (speaking of wetsuits.. scarecrow and I were changing into our suits and she was having the hardest time putting hers on.. "WTF!! Dude I think I gained major weight!" I started laughing at her and waxed my board. She was still struggling and cussing by the time I was finished. I went over and told her to hurry up.. then I heard her laugh aloud.. "Dude!! I was putting my foot in the arm!!!" AHHAHAHAHAHAH!!! Oh man that was great!!!) dang it!! my socks got wet!! oh well, they'll dry on the bike.. the thought of blistered feet kept running threw my head as I ate half a powerbar and drank some water... ran out of the transition and saw the gf again.. SWEEET!!! On to 56 mile of flat to moderately rolling hills... so I thought..
On the bike is a relatively easy hill.. I granny gear it and pass some of the women that go out of the water before me and start to get comfortable. I'm hitting about a 20mph average and feeling good. Not much to really talk about for the first half except the fact that the salt pills I put in my bent0 box got crushed and all I had was dust.. I probably looked like a drug addict out there. Eating while pedaling wasn't as hard as I thought it would be.. I was afraid I'd look down too long and crash but I didn't.. Oh yeah and another dumb move by me.. I forgot to reset my bike computer.. I didn't know what mile I was on!! DAMMIT!! I did get to see the leaders on their way back.. man they looked like they weren't even trying!! must be nice.. oh yeah.. and I got passed by everyone and their grandma.. no seriously!!!
Finally the turnaround!! I was starting to get bored! Ok, time to conquer those rolling hills.. that to me were really hills and get a negative split. Yeah not so much.. Those hills were tough.. I think the route back was uphill.. I got passed by a lot more people.. this really big guy just ate the hills up and blew past me.. probably in the clydesdale division.. and they probably started last.. FUCK!! Then I looked at my average mph.. oh wait!! I'm averaging about 18.6mph.. sweet!! And!! bombing the hills was super fun.. I hit 40mph numerous times and without pedaling... It helped a lot going up the hills because my momentum took me halfway up... Finished the bike and saw the gf again.. put the shoes on.. oh yeah.. socks haven't fully dried yet so uh oh.. ate the other half of the powerbar put my gear on and headed out.. up the hill and checked my pace on my watch.. 10:30.. sweet! about 500yrds after I started, my back starts to hurt.. WTF!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! I start to walk and stretch it out.. but it didn't work.. fuck it.. I didn't train 6 months and give up so much of my social life to quit.. It's gonna be a long day!!!! Pass mile 1 and anything faster than a jog hurt so bad.. I try to ignore it but can only do it for a few minutes.. I ended up running about 4 mins and walking about 7 mins. wash, rinse, dry and repeat.. and you know that hickey my wetsuit gave me? sweat started to hit it and it hurt like hell!! there was lots of encouragement out there so that was a plus... and note to race directors.. how about putting the portopotties after the food? I'm just sayin... smellin poo doesn't really help the food... at about midpoint, I see the gf waiting and she yelling at the top of her lungs, "Stop walking!!!!" That cracked a smile so I jogged over to her and she gave me a huge hug. I told her I wanted to quit and she said to shut up and no quitting... so I kept truckin and hit the turn around... a five foot tiki thing... I smacked that thing so hard and started running... ALMOST DONE!! I managed to run about another mile then shut it down again... walked and run the last 6 miles... then I saw the beach and the finish line... I picked it up a bit then I hit the sand.. everything hurt while I was running.... running in sand sucks major ass.. but I got to the hard packed part and it was ok.. Cheers!! Chills!! and soft sand were at the finish line... I managed to pass some older guy, that was probably in a later heat and met the gf at the finish line...
Great race.. I 6hrs 56min... 26 min over my real goal.. I think I could have gone under 6hr 30min without the back problem.. maybe even closer to 6hrs
40 min swim... right on target.. faster if I didn't go off course
3hr 2min bike... about right for me.. about 18.6mph.. hillier than I thought.. well at least by my standards
3hr 5min run.. dammit.. I was trying to finish under 3 hrs with the bad back.
After the race, I got an ice pack from the med tent and hit the food.. Burritos and water!! SAWEET!! We headed back to the car and then picked up my bike... I asked around for public showers but nobody knew where they were.. ahh well.. 5.5hr stink ride home it is... We stopped by a store to pick up some stuff for the neck.. baby wipes to the rash!! damn that shit hurt really bad.. I don't recommend it... The gf drove us home, we had dinner and went to bed... what a great trip! I'll think about racing this again next year.. but I have other stuff to look into.. like more school!
The week following, I did absolutely nothing... ate everything in sight and enjoyed being fat... That Saturday, 9/15, was the N!ke run... I had a great plan of running.. well walking it and filling my hydration pack with guinness!! I started drinking while in the car and noticed that it was getting warm.. I walked around looking for ice... NO ICE to be found... some security guy even came up to me and asked me if I needed help.. DOH!! hope you don't smell the beer!! We hit the starting line a few minutes after and I was left behind after the gun... fuck it.. I'm walking and drinking.. and wanting to pee!!! I hit up a shop and used their bathroom.. I also hit up BeanCoffee and got some ice.. I asked the girls there if they wanted some beer.. the manager in the back didn't look too happy... so I bought a rice krispy treat and finished the run... it was pretty fun but don't think I'll be doing this again.. too many people and they had a timing malfunction so the start wasn't recorded.. that wouldn't make a difference if you started at the front. Ahh well!
This past weekend I finally got wet.. after a month of being landlocked... semi bump with thigh high sets.. not the best, but it wasn't crowded and I had the buffet board.. took me a few waves to dial the board back in but after that I was good to go.. only surfed for about 2hrs and called it quits.. I rested up and then picked up the gf to see DonovanFrankenreiter and special guests.. they were (ones that I liked) Hawk, SugarRay and Pennywise!! WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOA! OH OH OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! great surprise!
Now I'm back into the swing of things... running, biking and swimming again.. goals for this winter is to shed some major poundage... I started a contest with my friends called the lightest loser.. $200 to the winner with the highest % of weight loss.. SAWEEET!!
Randomness:
I was driving to the gf's place and saw a construction van with a DP plate.. WTF!! that doesn't make sense.. someone explain that to me!
I think the gov is out to get me.. first jury duty.. then I got a ticket for the no left during 8-12.. then i got a parking ticket.. DAMMIT!!!
Oh yeah.. and I was also in the school newspaper.. don't know if you remember but I won a carpool story contest and had my picture taken.. they used it for a full page ad for going green!!! SAWEEET!! it's hanging in my cube.. and then!!! I was on Huell H0wser!!! I'M FAMOUS!!
Thanks for reading! LATER!!!
but I've been busy at work and I hate going on the computer when I get home.
So let the race report begin. First, the drive up with the gf took 5.5 hours with a couple of stops for food and gas. It was really great.. she made the ride up there go fast... we saw some potential racers (they had tribikes on or in their cars) and wanted to make good luck signs.. but we didn't.. no paper.. we arrived in Santa Cruz at about 2 and hit the expo... what a disappointment! Booths are nice and the shirt is rad but how in the world do they not have gels!!! I didn't buy any before the race because I thought I could buy them.. NOPE!!! FUCK ME!!! After that hit the boardwalk then headed off to the hotel, checked in and another WTF!!! I have the timing chip, but no ankle bracelet. First, I
thought.. oh maybe they just record your time as you come into the transitions (they did this by hand at camp pendlet0n).. so I go back and ask one of the volunteers, "Hi, I didn't get a strap for my timing chip." She reaches into a box and hands me a plastci wrist band.. like the fluorescent ones you get for clubs.. dammit!! I already have one of these.. and maybe a big problem.. what if it doesn't fit around my ankle? FUCK!!! Here I was laughing at a tri company giving out free timing chip straps.. I'm such a fool... anyway, I tried it on before Ileft and it was loose...
Got back to the hotel, picked up the gf and headed out to find some gels. Rite@id.. nope! TraderJ0es.. nope! "Excuse me miss.. is there a Target around here?" She just laughed at me and said no... FUCK!!!! Then the gf suggest GNC.. SWEET there's one in town... drive towards it.. not knowing the streets and come across an outdoors store.. SWEEET!!! Pulled over and bought 6 strawberry banana.. fweeh.. now my heart can rest.. Time to go check the run so the gf knows where to cheer me on.. We went to the turn around spot and kept driving for what seemed like longer than 6.5 miles.. turned around and checked if we missed a turn.. Nope... turned around again and went further.. YUP! 6.5 miles is a long time. .even in the car.. oh man the run is gonna suck major ass! After that, we had dinner and back to the hotel.
We turned in pretty early, for us, 10pm. I woke up to our neighbor playing some damn stoner music.. something to do with weed.. couldn't go back to sleep **highlight for more information** and got frisky with the gf.. good thing it didn't last too long.. dammit!!! no sex before a race!!! Got up at 5am, showered and headed out.. late check out was 2pm
so I couldn't come back and shower.. oh well..
Got to the race and parked my bike, got body marked and headed to the water.. Side note.. gf had her new $600 purse with her and the permanent ink rubbed off my skin and onto the handle.. oops!! dang my tattoo!! the body marker had to put it on my forearm cause of it.. ahh well.. headed to the beach and tested the water.. NICE!! not too cold.. my body temp should warm up pretty fast.. 5... 4... 3... 2... 1!!!! GO!!! Run into the water and start swimming.. still with the pack.. had to push, dunk, get dunked, kicked in the ribs, kicked in the arm and elbowed in the head... GOOD TIMES!! combat swimming!! after a few minutes thepack evened out.. or they're all faster than me.. hee hee!! OR!! I swam off course!! I pick the last two!! I stopped swimming and was lookedover to my right.. oops I'm a good 50 meters from everyone.. ahh well..
keep swimming to the buoy.... got there and still see people with the same color cap (who started a the same time).. SWEET! I'm not last!! turned headed toward the beach.. the announcer said to aim for the bottom part of the hotel... so I did.. oh wait.. he meant the bottom part where it meets the ramp.. FUCK!! off course again.. and I think I
hit some good current and wasn't moving for a while.. hee hee!! One of the lifeguards had to escort me back to the pack.. SWEET!! Green caps!!! and yellow.. and orange.. and red.. AH FUCK! Keep swimming!! by now, my surf wetsuit (I waited too long to rent one.. and the place that I thought would have it only had sleeveless ones) worked my neck.. see pics below.
Out of the water and into the transition (about a two blocks). Saw the gf cheering me on and man that felt really good. Took off the wetsuit and put on the bike gear.... (speaking of wetsuits.. scarecrow and I were changing into our suits and she was having the hardest time putting hers on.. "WTF!! Dude I think I gained major weight!" I started laughing at her and waxed my board. She was still struggling and cussing by the time I was finished. I went over and told her to hurry up.. then I heard her laugh aloud.. "Dude!! I was putting my foot in the arm!!!" AHHAHAHAHAHAH!!! Oh man that was great!!!) dang it!! my socks got wet!! oh well, they'll dry on the bike.. the thought of blistered feet kept running threw my head as I ate half a powerbar and drank some water... ran out of the transition and saw the gf again.. SWEEET!!! On to 56 mile of flat to moderately rolling hills... so I thought..
On the bike is a relatively easy hill.. I granny gear it and pass some of the women that go out of the water before me and start to get comfortable. I'm hitting about a 20mph average and feeling good. Not much to really talk about for the first half except the fact that the salt pills I put in my bent0 box got crushed and all I had was dust.. I probably looked like a drug addict out there. Eating while pedaling wasn't as hard as I thought it would be.. I was afraid I'd look down too long and crash but I didn't.. Oh yeah and another dumb move by me.. I forgot to reset my bike computer.. I didn't know what mile I was on!! DAMMIT!! I did get to see the leaders on their way back.. man they looked like they weren't even trying!! must be nice.. oh yeah.. and I got passed by everyone and their grandma.. no seriously!!!
Finally the turnaround!! I was starting to get bored! Ok, time to conquer those rolling hills.. that to me were really hills and get a negative split. Yeah not so much.. Those hills were tough.. I think the route back was uphill.. I got passed by a lot more people.. this really big guy just ate the hills up and blew past me.. probably in the clydesdale division.. and they probably started last.. FUCK!! Then I looked at my average mph.. oh wait!! I'm averaging about 18.6mph.. sweet!! And!! bombing the hills was super fun.. I hit 40mph numerous times and without pedaling... It helped a lot going up the hills because my momentum took me halfway up... Finished the bike and saw the gf again.. put the shoes on.. oh yeah.. socks haven't fully dried yet so uh oh.. ate the other half of the powerbar put my gear on and headed out.. up the hill and checked my pace on my watch.. 10:30.. sweet! about 500yrds after I started, my back starts to hurt.. WTF!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! I start to walk and stretch it out.. but it didn't work.. fuck it.. I didn't train 6 months and give up so much of my social life to quit.. It's gonna be a long day!!!! Pass mile 1 and anything faster than a jog hurt so bad.. I try to ignore it but can only do it for a few minutes.. I ended up running about 4 mins and walking about 7 mins. wash, rinse, dry and repeat.. and you know that hickey my wetsuit gave me? sweat started to hit it and it hurt like hell!! there was lots of encouragement out there so that was a plus... and note to race directors.. how about putting the portopotties after the food? I'm just sayin... smellin poo doesn't really help the food... at about midpoint, I see the gf waiting and she yelling at the top of her lungs, "Stop walking!!!!" That cracked a smile so I jogged over to her and she gave me a huge hug. I told her I wanted to quit and she said to shut up and no quitting... so I kept truckin and hit the turn around... a five foot tiki thing... I smacked that thing so hard and started running... ALMOST DONE!! I managed to run about another mile then shut it down again... walked and run the last 6 miles... then I saw the beach and the finish line... I picked it up a bit then I hit the sand.. everything hurt while I was running.... running in sand sucks major ass.. but I got to the hard packed part and it was ok.. Cheers!! Chills!! and soft sand were at the finish line... I managed to pass some older guy, that was probably in a later heat and met the gf at the finish line...
Great race.. I 6hrs 56min... 26 min over my real goal.. I think I could have gone under 6hr 30min without the back problem.. maybe even closer to 6hrs
40 min swim... right on target.. faster if I didn't go off course
3hr 2min bike... about right for me.. about 18.6mph.. hillier than I thought.. well at least by my standards
3hr 5min run.. dammit.. I was trying to finish under 3 hrs with the bad back.
After the race, I got an ice pack from the med tent and hit the food.. Burritos and water!! SAWEET!! We headed back to the car and then picked up my bike... I asked around for public showers but nobody knew where they were.. ahh well.. 5.5hr stink ride home it is... We stopped by a store to pick up some stuff for the neck.. baby wipes to the rash!! damn that shit hurt really bad.. I don't recommend it... The gf drove us home, we had dinner and went to bed... what a great trip! I'll think about racing this again next year.. but I have other stuff to look into.. like more school!
The week following, I did absolutely nothing... ate everything in sight and enjoyed being fat... That Saturday, 9/15, was the N!ke run... I had a great plan of running.. well walking it and filling my hydration pack with guinness!! I started drinking while in the car and noticed that it was getting warm.. I walked around looking for ice... NO ICE to be found... some security guy even came up to me and asked me if I needed help.. DOH!! hope you don't smell the beer!! We hit the starting line a few minutes after and I was left behind after the gun... fuck it.. I'm walking and drinking.. and wanting to pee!!! I hit up a shop and used their bathroom.. I also hit up BeanCoffee and got some ice.. I asked the girls there if they wanted some beer.. the manager in the back didn't look too happy... so I bought a rice krispy treat and finished the run... it was pretty fun but don't think I'll be doing this again.. too many people and they had a timing malfunction so the start wasn't recorded.. that wouldn't make a difference if you started at the front. Ahh well!
This past weekend I finally got wet.. after a month of being landlocked... semi bump with thigh high sets.. not the best, but it wasn't crowded and I had the buffet board.. took me a few waves to dial the board back in but after that I was good to go.. only surfed for about 2hrs and called it quits.. I rested up and then picked up the gf to see DonovanFrankenreiter and special guests.. they were (ones that I liked) Hawk, SugarRay and Pennywise!! WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOA! OH OH OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! great surprise!
Now I'm back into the swing of things... running, biking and swimming again.. goals for this winter is to shed some major poundage... I started a contest with my friends called the lightest loser.. $200 to the winner with the highest % of weight loss.. SAWEEET!!
Randomness:
I was driving to the gf's place and saw a construction van with a DP plate.. WTF!! that doesn't make sense.. someone explain that to me!
I think the gov is out to get me.. first jury duty.. then I got a ticket for the no left during 8-12.. then i got a parking ticket.. DAMMIT!!!
Oh yeah.. and I was also in the school newspaper.. don't know if you remember but I won a carpool story contest and had my picture taken.. they used it for a full page ad for going green!!! SAWEEET!! it's hanging in my cube.. and then!!! I was on Huell H0wser!!! I'M FAMOUS!!
Thanks for reading! LATER!!!
posted by BeanCountingSurfer at 11:44 AM
3 Comments:
Where have you been? I noticed you hadn't updated. Ah!!! I guess I could have just emailed you to see how you're doing. My bad!
Thought I'd just take a break and do other things for a while. But, don't worry! I'm back!
Oh Man, that sounds like agony! I was just thinking I need to start training again for the Sprint length tri NEXT YEAR!
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