The Three Coconuts

Before a race, all the training and angst builds up. The mind and body know that a battle is coming. They are just looking for the battlefield. We are now 20 days pre race (Augusta 70.3 on 9-27-09). Our training volume is decreasing, but the intensity is very high. We are going to deep dark places to get through some of the training sessions. It makes me tired but too wired up to relax... and unfortunately it makes me cranky. Cranky may be inaccurate, downright mean is more true. So here's a little list of things that I hope are entertaining, some are pre race angst, some are just triathlete oddities.

Things that might mean that you have gone over the edge:

1) My last blog, ranting about swimming pools. And the fact that we have all the pool numbers programmed into our phones.

2) Blain's comment that some people in those little scooters in Wal-Mart are just too lazy to walk. I was worried that he was considering a tipping party to see who really needed the things.

3) Our peanut butter assortment. Yes this is real, I don't know how it came to this. And yes, we do use all of these. Some are exclusively his, some mine... some is special ordered in by the case.

4) The bikes hanging in our living room, beside the trainers and the treadmill.

5) If you read other triathlete's blogs daily, and follow them like soap operas. Once you actually start corresponding with the pro triathletes, and ID Bree Wee's son on your trip to Hawaii... you're gone.