Well, I spent a lot of time (sort of) getting ready for this morning’s triathlon that didn’t happen.
When I was first asked, I didn’t even have an operational bicycle, though I had just ordered one through River Market Cyclery. It was two weeks before and I finally had a bicycle. But that turned out to be the small obstacle. within a couple of days I was easily up to 9 miles, climbing up and down my usual steep hills between work and home.
The swimming, that was a question of endurance — and I practiced in the community center pool without pushing off, swimming twice the distance required with ease. The only question there was how it would be in open water instead of a pool. But I didn’t expect any issues there.
Then let’s think about the running. basically a 5K. I just did one of those in May. So the ability to run was there.
But how to put them all together.
We looked for bicycle racks to get the bicycle to the triathlon site, and finally settled on using our utility trailer.
They have an orientation for the triathlon participants the day before. So I went to that Saturday, and got all the logistics down. I learned where to rack the bike, how they would line up the swimming, where to go and how to transition between the various sections.
My packet included the tri-tats that are numbers you put on your body and equipment. So last night I went ahead and put the tats on my biceps and back of my calf, along with the bib number on my shirt, numbers on the bicycle.
And then woke up this morning at 5 a.m. and called the rainout number. at 4:45 a.m. they had called due to weather. It took until 5:08 for Facebook to update with the announcement.
So after a night of little sleep, as my body anticipated the competition, I unpacked the bicycle from the trailer, unhooked the trailer from the car, and went back to sleep and slept soundly until I almost overslept for church.
At The Rainbow 