Pre-Race: Beaches Fine Arts Triathlon - Ponte Vedra
Following my Memorial Day weekend triumph of having completed my first triathlon I was so psyched to do my next I hit the first opportunity an hour north in Ponte Vedra. This was another sprint distance race that included a .25 Mile Ocean Swim an 11.5 mile bike and a 3.1 mile run Saturday June 12.
Friday 7pm : Pre-Race Dinner: I read somewhere that THE pre-race dinner includes rice pilaf, chicken, peas, tomatoes and cashews. Well I didn't have any of those things or the time to cook them so the only thing I could think of was Chinese chicken and cashews. Ate most the rice and half the chicken. This was probably NOT, THE, pre-race dinner. Next time I'll do the cooking as this is NOT a Zone friendly meal
Friday 8pm : Light Bike Ride : Took a nice and easy ride around the block just to be sure everything was functioning properly on the only thing in all this that could mechanically go wrong.
Friday 8:30-10pm : Lay out all of my stuff for the race. Shorts, Shorts for over my shorts, t-shirt, sandals for running around the grounds pre-race, vaseline to help the seal on my goggles, baby powder for my shoes. Check that I have my goggles 5 TIMES (this will be important later). Shower and shave. I need to write a check list because one of these days I'm going to forget something.
Friday 10pm : I'm in bed set the alarm clock for 4:50am. I also keep the time on my alarm clock about 10 minutes fast, its a mental thing, so really its more like 4:40am
Saturday 1am : Damn its not 5 yet!
Saturday 2am : Damn its still not 5!
Saturday 3:03am : This is getting old sleep damn you sleep!
Saturday 4:50am : FINALLY!
Up and at em', brush my teeth, throw the bike in the trunk of the car, fight with the bungee cord for 5 minutes I HAVE to get a bike rack. Grab a Zone Bar for breakfast Im still not sure whether or not I should be eating before an event but at only 2 blocks this is really only half a breakfast. Get my coffee and then the fun part...Waking everyone else up. My sister being in town made her the official photographer/babysitter. In the time it took her to get up and around the baby to get up and around and put $30! worth of gas in the car we were about 20 minutes later than I wanted to be.
Race report to follow...
Friday 7pm : Pre-Race Dinner: I read somewhere that THE pre-race dinner includes rice pilaf, chicken, peas, tomatoes and cashews. Well I didn't have any of those things or the time to cook them so the only thing I could think of was Chinese chicken and cashews. Ate most the rice and half the chicken. This was probably NOT, THE, pre-race dinner. Next time I'll do the cooking as this is NOT a Zone friendly meal
Friday 8pm : Light Bike Ride : Took a nice and easy ride around the block just to be sure everything was functioning properly on the only thing in all this that could mechanically go wrong.
Friday 8:30-10pm : Lay out all of my stuff for the race. Shorts, Shorts for over my shorts, t-shirt, sandals for running around the grounds pre-race, vaseline to help the seal on my goggles, baby powder for my shoes. Check that I have my goggles 5 TIMES (this will be important later). Shower and shave. I need to write a check list because one of these days I'm going to forget something.
Friday 10pm : I'm in bed set the alarm clock for 4:50am. I also keep the time on my alarm clock about 10 minutes fast, its a mental thing, so really its more like 4:40am
Saturday 1am : Damn its not 5 yet!
Saturday 2am : Damn its still not 5!
Saturday 3:03am : This is getting old sleep damn you sleep!
Saturday 4:50am : FINALLY!
Up and at em', brush my teeth, throw the bike in the trunk of the car, fight with the bungee cord for 5 minutes I HAVE to get a bike rack. Grab a Zone Bar for breakfast Im still not sure whether or not I should be eating before an event but at only 2 blocks this is really only half a breakfast. Get my coffee and then the fun part...Waking everyone else up. My sister being in town made her the official photographer/babysitter. In the time it took her to get up and around the baby to get up and around and put $30! worth of gas in the car we were about 20 minutes later than I wanted to be.
Race report to follow...
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