This weeks big challenges

[threadwalker]

1. Work: Partner with group X. Progress is good.

2. Projects: Sew eyelets. My lunch and BART project this week. I should get 90% done by Friday morning.

3. Kids: N needs to read more. sigh. We seem to cycle up and down on the reading and it's in direct relation to my energy/input on this. In order for all of us to succeed, I need to get to work early by 7am so that N is doing his evening reading earlier enough while he's still alert.

4. Fitness Challenge: My company has a holiday on Friday, so I'm going to mock-up my triathlon on Friday while the kids are at school. It won't be as hard as the "real deal" since I won't have open water, rolling hills or other racers to deal with. But it will be a good practice run and my home-base will be Cowell Pool in Concord.

After I am done torturing myself Friday and get cleaned up, it will be time for a robust, protein based lunch. If anyone's in town (Contra Costa Co) and interested in lunch plans, shoot me a message either here or a text on my cell.

And after that's all done, I shall retreat to the Corbie Cave for sewing madness and another installment of Babylon 5

Right now my plan is to load my car with my bike, bike gear, and running gear. I'll dress for the pool in swim-suit (not tri-suit since I don't want to douse it in chlorine; you aren't supposed to wash them with soap because it might damage the high-tech fibers). I'll probably get to Cowell Pool (Concord) around 8:00 am. Then I'll swim 1000 yds (longer than tri). Then change in locker room and scoot out to bike and put it together. I will either do the trail near by (15-18 mile loop) or come up with something that's less chopped up with intersections. And then, getting back to car, change into running gear, stow bike, and run 4 miles.

This will be a great gear and transition run through.
-Time to open up the heart-rate monitor and put batteries in it.
-Time to get some Goo.
-Time to get the camel pack cleaned out and set up my own aid station at my car.
-find the special biking socks
-see how my tri-clothes fit and move on me - rubbing = bad!

I like this plan. It is a good plan.

Comments

[j-i-m-r.livejournal.com]

Is the open water portion of the triathalon you're doing in the bay? If so, do you want to try out bay swimming beforehand? I can take you down to the South End Rowing Club with me, so you'll have access to the locker room and the sauna after you get out of the water. Also, most of the folks at the club are swimmers so they might be able to give you some pointers on open water swimming if you'd like.

Lake Berryessa

[thread-walker.livejournal.com]

For the Napa Tri, the open water is on Lake Berryessa.

However, as soon as I get confirmation of my membership in USA-Triathlon, I'm going to register for the Tri in Santa Cruz (8/10/08) and the Tri at Pacific Grove (Monterey, September, 2008). I would LOVE to take you up on this offer later this summer, provided you have the time and energy because those Tri's will be ocean swims. And by then I'll have my own wet suit... I know, you told me the real swim heroes at your club don't wear wet-suits. But I'm a temperature weenie. I embrace my temperature-weenie-ness and would want to be prepared with a wetsuit incase the bay freezes my toes (and other valued parts).

[sassycat8.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a great plan!! I am so excited for you! Good luck to you on Friday, and kudos for doing a trial run. I think I did my first race cold, but I don't remember for sure.

Also, I am happy to open water swim with you at any point.

[thread-walker.livejournal.com]

thank you!

I am getting a wet-suit later this month so I'll be open-water ready by April 1. I was thinking July and August looked like good months to try open water swimming. Very low SCA stuff (since A&S is in June and I don't go to Purg), so great possibilities for "other things"... such as biking, swimmming, etc.

What do you think?

[sassycat8.livejournal.com]

July and August are pretty flat surfwise, so that should be perfect! Will you be at crown this weekend?

[sassycat8.livejournal.com]

p.s. I think it is super funny that it says "forward momentum" on your blog, and "forward motion" was the headline on my phone until I changed it to "just breathe".

[thread-walker.livejournal.com]

that is pretty funny!

[shutt3rg33k.livejournal.com]

I feel vaguely guilty for enjoying the weekend working with the boys.

[thread-walker.livejournal.com]

Why would you feel guilty? I enjoy that stuff, too. Healthy, bracing work in the great outdoors. It's awesome. I'm glad you had a good time; you deserve it.

(still confused about why you'd feel guilty...)

[shutt3rg33k.livejournal.com]

Some silly notion that I should be playing with the girls, maybe helping with the sausage-making. But, honestly, I'm better with a hammer than a whatever you'd use to make sausage thing. I did mean it when I said vaguely... ;)

[thread-walker.livejournal.com]

lol.. well, I think all of us just need to embrace who we are and be able to honestly enjoy the stuff we enjoy without trying to fit into someone elses ideals. I think it's hard enough to figure out who we are from the inside out without internalizing outside expectations.

[beanolc.livejournal.com]

Ignore that silly notion! I'm usually more comfortable around guys, personally. Besides, it wasn't an either/or weekend... those were two separate efforts that just happened to have a common thread.