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September 13, 2008
Race Ready
Well, the bike is ready, the transition bag is packed, the alarm is set (for an all too early hour) and I am rearing to go! Ready to race!
The trip down to Charlotte last night went smoothly. Except for a little missed exit (while we were still in PA of all places), we had no directional issues. And although the drive was pretty long (7+ hours) the time seemed to go quickly. This is amazing for me because usually my time limit in the car is about 4 hours before I start climbing out the windows. We passed the time talking and playing games though. One game we played was the "guess who they will vote for" game. O and I would name someone we both knew and tried to guess, as based on what we knew about that person, who they would vote for in the presidential election in November. Doesn't sound like much fun but it was hilarious! We talked about family and friends and then of course other bloggers! Some people are pretty easy to guess at while others were quite tough. We wondered if it would be easy to tell from our blogs, who O and I will be voting for. :)
Anyway, we finally arrived and pretty much went to bed. Then this morning woke up for breakfast, training at the race site, driving the bike course, lunch and then packet pickup and race meeting. O was feeling majorly outnumbered at packet pickup. I'm not sure he is a fan of the all woman's race! :) I really love the shirt though. The motto for this race series is:
She Swims
She Rides
She Runs
SheROX!
Pretty cool. :)
Anyway, I got in some swimming in the lake (despite the signs that very clearly said NO SWIMMING) and WOW was that water warm! The SetUpEvents guy told me it was 84 degrees! Warmer than the YMCA pool! It actually felt really good though. The bike course is pretty flat and then the run course is off road on a rocky type trail. It's very shady though which will probably come in handy tomorrow when the high is in the mid 90s!
Regardless, I'm really excited, as if this is my first race of the year or something! I think what's also fun is that I start in the first wave (of only 4 other woman!) and since there are no men, us gals will really be "leading" the race! How cool is that! I'm going to pretend like I'm a pro, starting in that first pro wave. I even have a low number (#5), the lowest number I've ever raced with by far. :) Hey...we can all pretend and dream right?
So it's off to bed soon. But first O and I are going to look through the New Home Guide for the Charlotte area that he picked up. We decided we really like it here. And it doesn't snow. Why not? (yeah right...we'll probably live in Pittsburgh until the day we die... :)
Best of luck to everyone racing tomorrow!
Posted by beth at September 13, 2008 7:56 PM
Comments
I hope you have a good day today and lead from start to finish.
Who did you guess for me? Ralph Nader just got added to the ballot in Vermont, giving me three choices this year, yet again. :)
I think it's funny--the two places that Andrew travels are Pittsburgh and Charlotte, and there you are!
Posted by: Danielle at September 14, 2008 9:59 AM
Okay, so it's killing me trying to figure out who you think D & I will vote for. I'm guessing that you two will vote for McCain/Palin, but I've been known to be wrong before. :)
And yes, Charlotte is a beautiful city. They've really cleaned up in the past few years with all of the big banks that are located there. But, I've got to put a plug in for the Raleigh-Durham area. We've got 2 big teaching hospitals (Duke & UNC) plus a math/science magnet school. And the same lovely weather that Charlotte has.
Posted by: B at September 14, 2008 11:39 AM
Great job today! It was nice to meet you, although I would have liked to talk to you more, but ended up just not seeing you! Hope the drive back was alright, and when you look at the results, you really do have the fastest run, the lady who took 3rd didn't do 2 laps on the run course-but they didn't DQ her yet or something.
So glad you liked Charlotte! But I agree with "B", Raleigh-Durham area is much nicer!
Posted by: Laurie at September 14, 2008 8:18 PM
Congrats on your win! Definitely look at Raleigh-Durham area if you'd like to move to North Carolina. I love it here.
Posted by: Alicia Parr at September 14, 2008 9:20 PM
woooo whoooo awesome job.... you were in the zone...
Posted by: Kranky C Dale at September 15, 2008 10:46 AM