Gigathlon

Arkansas

This morning I felt like I had been out all night at the bar.  I felt a little beat up from yesterdays run but my legs were not sore.

Wellness Coaching- I got up and got dressed for work just like a normal person.  I headed out to an office that I plan to be working with the next year for Corporate Wellness.  I had 8 people to visit with at this office and the sessions were taking a little longer then planned so the swim at lunch was canceled and I got to coach about 6 people.  These are people that are contemplating working out or eating better but they are not sure what to work on first.  I also am getting to know them and there needs to create a program that might work for them.  I have all kinds of homework to do and some literature to gather for them to have next week.  This is a challenge but it is something new and different so I like the change.  I had massages tonight and got home at 9pm so it was a 12+day for me but that is a good thing as well.

Arkansas-  the weather is not looking to promising on the forcast that I am looking at but the van is still packed . I will make my decision on Wednesday on weather or not to go.  I am not going to run in rain and cold unless it is my key race.  I prefer to stay nice and healthy when I am in training.  I look at the weather about 3x a day so I will know something come Wednesday night.  My funds are tight as well so another weekend here at home won't hurt.  Keith has the travel bug and I can sense that he was ready to go on a trip.  He has crewed with me for lots of races and has been stuck in Lubbock for a while.  I guess we all have the bug here in Lubbock.

Gigathlon-  I know what the Europeans go through now when they come to the states to race.  They get directions in another language and have to listen to our banquets and stuff in English.  I was having to listen to German most of the time at the Gigathlon.  This really did cost me on the first day.  We all were lined up for our almost 8 mile swim down a river and the announcer was talking in German and giving us swimmers directions.  I was separated from my crew so I had no idea what was going on.  The announcer was telling us what side of the river to get out on.  We had a damn or something that we had to get out and run around in clogs.  It was only about a 2k run but we had to get out on the left side of the river...the same side that we entered.  I was told by a girl the night before that we had to get out on the right so I was planning on that.  I was trucking along pretty good on the swim all by myself thinking that I was speedy fast until a girl in a boat started hollering at me.  I had swam past the place we get out and I was on the other side of the river.  I had to swim up stream and across the river to the left side.  I did have trouble getting back up river and I was almost deadlast.  I put the clogs on for the run and that was the fastest part of the swim for me.  When we entered the water again I asked a guy what side of the river to get out on and he told me the right.  I hopped in and swam as fast as I could only to get stopped by a boat again telling me the same thing.  We got out on the left side again.  The girl the night before was all wrong.  It made the swim a real adventure for me.  The water was below 70 so I was not to happy about being in the water longer.  The naked transition is another story for another day.  I could not beleive all the naked bodies running around...yikes!

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Mar 10 2008, shanna