Friday, October 20, 2006

I don't even know what a triathlete is anymore....

Seriously. It's been about a month since my bike and I have bonded. It's been about a month since I've been surrounded by water. The only thing I have been doing intermittantly is running.

I ran the Inaugural Rock 'n Roll San Jose Half Marathon recently and loved it. The RNR people have totally got their stuff together. My expectations for every future race I do is at a level that is damn near unreachable for any other race org. They have every single detail thought out. They handed out little salt packets when you enter your corral before the start. I mean...who thinks of this stuff?? They even had the option of ordering a video clip of the race that includes me running through the finish line. I'm in the red cap sprinting to the finish:) Now I want that at every race!

I just had my hair dyed red and spent so hundreds of dollars on it that I won't dare put one little finger or toe in the chlorinated water to swim. That's going to have to wait until the hair has faded to it's normal shade of blonde. And isn't it sad when your triathlon life is put on hold in the name of red/violet #3? My last tri was in February - I turned duathlete in June when I raced with Sheri at Mermaid. She stayed true to her triathlete roots and I wimped out and did the du. But it was fun nonetheless and I thought I wanted to do more, but never found the time. Then I found the need to be girly.

Triathlon....I'll be back to you eventually. Perhaps for Wildflower in 2007 because I need a certain amount of masochism in my life:) Until then, my hair will take it's turn in the spotlight for the winter.

7 comments:

Sheri said...

You will always be a triathlete!

My aversion to swimming has rubbed off on you. I won't be able to do anything but mermaid next year if I don't get in a pool.

Hmm, red hair? I forgot what you looked like in the first place. :) Let's have lunch next week?

it's only fuel said...

Sheri...who is this Sheri person commenting on my blog?:D It's time for some HLS, so I'm totally down for lunch this week.

Sheri said...

Pick one, Wed, Thurs, Fri....

Kewl Nitrox said...

I'm with Sheri.

It's perfectly okay to focus on the run and just do some maintenance swim and bikes. I was just reading that it is usually counter productive to try to focus on all 3 disciplines anyway.

Deb said...

I was registered to run the San Jose RR 1/2, but dropped the race and flew to see my man in Portland instead. Good choice! Love the food pics to... Funny how our posts kind of mirrored here. Keep yourself motivated and find that mojo! ;)

Cliff said...

So you are the one with the light green shirt?

Good finish :)

it's only fuel said...

I'm the one on the far right side of the screen in the aqua shirt and red hat. I totally sprinted to the finish line:)