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July 4, 2008
I Love Ness's Draft
Holy cow, I don't even know where to begin.
But we must start somewhere so here goes! First off, the ride last night. I never blogged about that one. But Ness and Liz did so I don't have to. Crazy laps. That's all you need to know. It was very fun though and riding with so many others made the time go by so fast.
Now moving on to today. I got up and ran easy and short. And then we went to the pool. To swim with Chris and Liz's masters team. I was a little scared but it was really great. And there were many memorable moments. First off, the actual workout. 50s and 100s and 25s, the last of which involved not breathing. Or not breathing very much. The 50s and 100s were on a descending interval starting off on the :50/1:30 and then :45/1:25 and then, yep...you guessed it :40/1:20. I have to admit...I was a little sad when Coach Liz suggested that one.
But the fact of the matter was, Ness was leading the lane and as you can very well tell from my blog title, her draft is a very good thing. I'm not afraid to admit that on the last set I left about 0.0005 seconds AFTER Ness pushed off the wall.
Right before we started the last set on :40/1:20 Liz spoke the Quote of the Day:
"I have come to the Hurt Shop...and I am ready to make a purchase."
Truer words have never been spoken.
Hundreds on the 1:20 aren't something I can usually accomplish. But today we didn't do too bad. Not bad at all. By the end I wasn't sure what was going on though. I just kept swimming until I saw Ness standing at the wall. At that point Chris had also jumped in our lane and when we finished he asked "were you guys swimming a 400?" Yep...that sounds about right... :)
Anyway, we all lifted. Ness got caught in the Web of Stretch and then we all went to Einstein's for coffee/lunch and DP for me (Diet Pepsi of course).
But all of that is neither here nor there because the truly important event was about to take place later in the day. Championship Putt-Putt.
Elizabeth will have pictures on here blog to document the rest of the evening. I'm a bit nervous to see what she'll post. If there is a picture of me looking for my putt-putt ball in a pond or holding a black napkin, remember, pictures can be deceiving.
Regardless, it was a putt-putt championship for the history books. 36 holes total and much was on the line. Loser had to buy everyone else cake. As I said, the stakes were high. The pressure was on.
Add to the fact that Liz and Chris don't play normal putt-putt. Midway through the first game Liz started making up new rules. Rules like "this next hole we will play with our eyes closed" and "now we must tee off turned backwards and through our legs" and "the person who loses this hole gets an additional point added to their score." Rough stuff.
When it was all said and done I finished in 2nd place. I was in 3rd after the initial 18 holes but luckily Chris went out way too hard, bonked and blew to smitherins. His coach may need to work on some pacing strategy with him next time. Ness was the champion and was quite impressive overall. She talked the trash and then she backed it up. Not easy to do. And Liz won the most holes in one award with 2 total. I'd call it dumb luck but she was the only pro athlete in the field and I have to believe that was no coincidence.
Naturally we were all very hungry after our 36 holes (talk about bonking my friends!) and our next plan of attack was dinner. More games and eating and lots of laughing. And then Ness started making "things" out of her napkin. I almost snorted Diet Pepsi out my nose. If you've ever done it, you know how badly that hurts.
Of course now we are all blogging and eating the spoils of victory - our cake that Chris had to buy us for losing putt-putt. Cake never tasted so good. That is until Ness remembered that there are walnuts in carrot cake of which she is allergic to. She's still breathing at this point though so I'm not worried.
Camp sure is fun. Too bad tomorrow will be taken up by lots of riding...otherwise I we would have time for me to show Ness how putt-putt is REALLY played.
PS Boss is still cute!
Posted by beth at July 4, 2008 9:45 PM
Comments
HA! I am so glad you guys are still alive and having fun. And, I was disappointed to hear that Chris bonked...he didn't have his race day nutrition? Salt tabs? Heck, it was not even 80F today!!? Hmmm. HAHA. Keep up the fun!
Posted by: jenharrison at July 4, 2008 10:29 PM
Nice work ladies. Way to hang in there for 36 holes. I would have needed a putt putt golf cart.
Chad
Posted by: chad at July 6, 2008 8:38 AM