And no lawn cutting or garage cleaning for me! I'm gonna be busy!
Tomorrow is of course my long workout and as always I look forward to it. It looks like I'm gonna get lucky with the weather again with the temperature dropping to a more reasonable level and little chance of rain. I also have my bike fixed up to allow me to carry enough fluids with stopping back home which I prefer not to do. I will do the same as last week, 120 kms followed by a run.
Then on Sunday I have my first race of the year and I am not the least bit nervous. That despite not having done a triathlon since my Ironman. I suppose that the fact that I am treating it as just another workout helps.
I was hoping maybe to try out my new bike either tomorrow or Sunday, but alas that was not meant to be. There was a delay in getting the wheels and then strangely enough the wheels showed up ahead of the bike. They assure me however that it left Montreal today, and should arrive in London at the first of the week.
You know what I was thinking today? I was considering how everything has changed since I was a kid. I remember buying my first 10 speed bike when I was about 16 years old. It cost me 100 bucks. Today a 10 speed actually means 20 speed! Yup! Now there are 10 cogs on the back instead of the 5.
And you know who causes all the change in the world. Young people. Young people with new thoughts, new ideas, new trends etc. No where can you see that more than in the way young people express themselves through their clothes. I thought I had seen it all when the style was to wear pants that hung so far below the hips that belts were useless...only suspenders would keep them from landing at your feet. Or how about the little fad period where young ladies got all dolled up in black makeup....I think they called it goth?
Like I said, I thought I seen it all, but as I drove my nephew to his high school this morning I noticed not for the first time an alarming new idea that some juveniles have discovered...particularly the young ladies. Believe it or not they have taken to completely cutting the legs off of perfectly good jeans and wearing them as shorts! Some of them are so short that the pockets actually hang below the cutoff point, and where they have been scissored has just been left to get all frayed and ratty looking. What will they think of next??!!
On the training front, as usual Friday was long swim in my wetsuit day. It's very strange that although I am slower in the pool than in 2009 I am quite confident that I will be faster come race day. It's just a feeling and hopefully I'm not deluding myself but we will see. Even though I will be very tired for my race on Sunday maybe the 750 metres will give me a better indication.
(swim 3100 metres, 1hr, 2 mins)
"Always strive to excel, but only on weekends."---Richard Rorty
" Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless."---Bill Watterson
Love
Peter
Tomorrow is of course my long workout and as always I look forward to it. It looks like I'm gonna get lucky with the weather again with the temperature dropping to a more reasonable level and little chance of rain. I also have my bike fixed up to allow me to carry enough fluids with stopping back home which I prefer not to do. I will do the same as last week, 120 kms followed by a run.
Then on Sunday I have my first race of the year and I am not the least bit nervous. That despite not having done a triathlon since my Ironman. I suppose that the fact that I am treating it as just another workout helps.
I was hoping maybe to try out my new bike either tomorrow or Sunday, but alas that was not meant to be. There was a delay in getting the wheels and then strangely enough the wheels showed up ahead of the bike. They assure me however that it left Montreal today, and should arrive in London at the first of the week.
You know what I was thinking today? I was considering how everything has changed since I was a kid. I remember buying my first 10 speed bike when I was about 16 years old. It cost me 100 bucks. Today a 10 speed actually means 20 speed! Yup! Now there are 10 cogs on the back instead of the 5.
And you know who causes all the change in the world. Young people. Young people with new thoughts, new ideas, new trends etc. No where can you see that more than in the way young people express themselves through their clothes. I thought I had seen it all when the style was to wear pants that hung so far below the hips that belts were useless...only suspenders would keep them from landing at your feet. Or how about the little fad period where young ladies got all dolled up in black makeup....I think they called it goth?
Like I said, I thought I seen it all, but as I drove my nephew to his high school this morning I noticed not for the first time an alarming new idea that some juveniles have discovered...particularly the young ladies. Believe it or not they have taken to completely cutting the legs off of perfectly good jeans and wearing them as shorts! Some of them are so short that the pockets actually hang below the cutoff point, and where they have been scissored has just been left to get all frayed and ratty looking. What will they think of next??!!
On the training front, as usual Friday was long swim in my wetsuit day. It's very strange that although I am slower in the pool than in 2009 I am quite confident that I will be faster come race day. It's just a feeling and hopefully I'm not deluding myself but we will see. Even though I will be very tired for my race on Sunday maybe the 750 metres will give me a better indication.
(swim 3100 metres, 1hr, 2 mins)
"Always strive to excel, but only on weekends."---Richard Rorty
" Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless."---Bill Watterson
Love
Peter
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