Well, a small part of me still feels I should have backed out. I am getting over a cold that moved into my chest. The swim started well with a solid crawl. About a 1/8 of the way into the swim, I got the worst asthma of my life. A few times I year I will get exercise induced asthma (usually running in the winter). I was pursing my lips during exhalation to stent my airways. Superimpose that to my lack of swim training. When I say lack, I mean none. I did not finish last, but nearly (there were three swimmer behind me). I finished the swim in 43 minutes. I kept a close eye on my watch, the cutoff for the swim was 50 minutes. The swim hurt. I thought about signaling the firefighters on the jetski. But I wanted to do the bike. I really wished this was the spudman tri and I was in the snake river with the current carrying me to the finish.
Some kind soul let me borrow their farmer john tri wetsuit. The floatation was so nice. I may hunt for an inexpensive farmer john.
Next time I will take my inhaler.
The bike was fun. Mostly single tract. Some good climbing (see picture). Quite a few sand washes (it is New Mexico). Krehl, thanks for the 29 tires. The 2.25 width helped in the sand. I bought some 29x2.1 small block 8 tires for my Leadville 100 race in August. When I was putting on tires for this tri, I decided to put on Krehl's tires and I felt lucky every time I came to a sand wash. I passed 5 people and got passed my 3.
The run was also off road. The first half was like running through the sand dunes. Then we ran around the Farmington reservoir. A few spots had exposure. But if you fell you would land in the reservoir. They had a kayaker running safety hanging out nearby. It was a fun narrow challenging hiking trail. Much more fun than running on the road. I was slow. 1:08 for 5.3 miles.
Total time 3:45. My heart rate monitor says 3921 calories.
The off road course was fun.
I finished 109 of 110 finishers. 121 people started.
Swim: 43 (105th place)
First transition: 5:58
Bike: 1:42 (101th)
Second transition: 3:13
Run: 1:08 (107th)
Total time: 3:45
11 comments:
109 out of 110 and you still lived to brag about it. Awesome, old desk-buddy! You inspirational in your humble transparency.
How old is your Maggie? Say hi to Jess for us and can't wait to get all the kids together since we're all one (really) big family now....
I guess now your non-traditional-student mom will meet my non-traditional-student mom and our pets can mingle.
And we can all share sandwiches like you and Krehl and build fun stuff like homemade surfer-board skateboards.
And boyscouts will be for everyone families all out together and totally egalitarian. Egal Scouts. I always wanted to be a boy scout.... ;)
It's gonna be all that physics and cellbiology that came alive for you and me and it's all going to be first hand information REAL-D *I never got around to being able to afford 3-d so we're skipping to Real-D 'cuz my Handsome's snoring and I'm in charge and he lets me do pretty much whatever I want
But for example, Osmosis Jones and hang-gliding on dandelion seeds.
Please be sure to contact my Central Source at www.hopeliveshere.ca
You can contact me through our old Dad.... ;)
oh! and have you and your siblings ever been SEA kayaking....? It was popular at Jordan River year-round and one of those things EVERYBODY needs to experience plus there are going to be all kinds of helicopter-diving camps a la coast guard style extreme (no fear of hurt or dying here)
I was pushed to the total brink and now it's all exoteric all the time. sorry about the fiction book but at least you had the sense to hold to the REAL Book, Old Friend!
eternity was really boring without anyone to play with
so now it's 365 Christmas music, family time, progress, all the Good Stuff
From your pal, G
oh yeah. I think my husband's chiropractor is from your same town. Her name is Tedra Burke and she has an office in Lodi (where I was born)at the same stone building that I did massage therapy in with a really great jazz dancer named Eva Norton. I'd like to explore the intrigues of holistic medicine now. It was always against my religion and there isn't any religion to be in the way any more.
It's just creation science and theology and family time, and Mama is always boss, and Daddy only fears The BIG Man.
Yeh. I never found Krehl on MySpace. Technology got way too out of control like a lot of things. We're gonna do drills like blackouts and national disasters and earthquakes and learn to come through the thick and the thin with Lowest Common Denominator. Teen Impact in Utah stuff, but REAL...and nobody any reason to be afraid 'cuz we're not leaving anybody behind. I like Utah family values, especially be fruitful and multiply. Thank God that Old World is gone and I can multiply in PEACE!
oh. and Bruce Walker Nobel Prize Winner is on my page at Church of God, 7th Day. We're dropping commerce and getting back to stick-in-the-mud basics.
This scenario is limited to earth atmosphere for unpredictable amount of time (my husband, spiders they scare him like spiders) because we're KJV people who celebrate the jewish traditions of a sundown-to-sundown sabbath, etc I'll tell you about it soon.
You don't need a license to fish any more but you might want to carry a manual on how to ride a horse because cars might start breaking down and ipods make funny sparks and the internet go out and we be thrown back in Oregon Trail Days to pioneer from scratch 'til we can build those rocket ships from a refurbished earth.
We're going to catch the greenhouse problem in the nib and learn how to be better stewards of THIS earth before we think about any other planets although the infinite is there and the sky is NOT the limit.
Pretty good for an ornery girl who wouldn't let you sit too close, eh.
I'm Canadian at heart.
Oh. And we're going to learn how to use the slide-rule before we deal with computers any more. THAT sort of thing.
It always impressed me how my Calculus tutors were ALWAYS from India and THEY always learned to compute on Slide-Rules.
And I want to know how Archimedes figured out the value of pi and all the NOVA stuff and EVERY kid (we are all kids in the grander scheme of things)should have the same privilege.
We've solved all the problems. I'd like to thank Eddy from Flashpoint for always saying "There's always a solution".
That got me thinking
http://hopeliveshere.ca/our-mission/
I'm thecanadianspirit@gmail.com and MornenGleide if you want to look at some of my dot-to-dot writings as I went on MY journey to connect the dots back to where-I-belong
I'm talking to you because you might have some good ideas, NOT because I'm giving you any decision-making powers.
Guess ya'll hafta' be jolted out of your shock with some sort of practice-scenario, eh.
Me, I'm only hanging on by CLOSE skin-to-skin contact with my husband's physical body.
We defined our marriage by the front-to-back KJV of the Bible but that Book was written by a bunch of boys who definitely had cooties and never should have been allowed to take charge.
Girls rule! 'cuz we're cute and all the boys want to do is impress us
oh. and so you're not wondering, it's EXOteric from here on out.
no more secret club meetings
I always hated those clubhouse signs "Girls not allowed"
King of the Mountain is a fun game to play, especially on a tall mound of snow like at 1407 Iris Street in Pocatello, Idaho the winter we got a lot of snow. Edahow and out!
My favorite musical group is NOT the tabernacle choir (that's really pretty but gets redundent) I like the joy of the Yeshiva Boys Choir under the new world-wide youth pastor, Eli GERTZNER
and I reserve my right to privacy including my own Geneva, Garrison, and Glynnvarra back in my house. My husband will follow up with that but I'm really irked and disappointed about response thus far.
Hi, Desk-Buddy.
I'm repeatedly resorting to Sanskrit and it's ANCIENT.
Words you thought were obsolete are not. And humans don't define words, that's too important.
Translation
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
Hi, Desk-Buddy.
I'm repeatedly resorting to Sanskrit and it's ANCIENT.
Words you thought were obsolete are not. And humans don't define words, that's too important.
Translation
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
QUEEN of Heaven
legacy geneology okay but no pecking order, no heraldic crap except in anthropological pursuits.
Translation
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
Barak the judge, wise enough to know the value of no man above another.
Why the former president is now a private citizen. ;)
heh heh. I always wondered where four square church fit into anything in the Bible.
Four Corners Off-Road Triathlon
A lot of stuff in this big ol' universe to discover yet!
Here's a fun tidbit....the dandelion, that thing we used to think was a WEed,is more profound than the infinity symbol or that four-way-elipse thing or even the lotus blossum.
www.hopeliveshere.ca
The power of a dandelion seed is why my country is Canada and my home is at the REAL River Jordan.
The things you thought too little to matter ended up being the important things in the end.
I mean, I thought quasar was a little subatomic particle less than the size of a computer pixel and instead it was this tightly wound super-physics me.
I'm ready for a honey moon.
I'd like the kids to leave Mommy and Daddy alone to have our time in peace now.
I miss MY Handsome.
I REALLY like privacy rights even as a 'public' figure.
I figure that's why Joshua and my ol' Dad let me be 'kidnapped' so many times so people would know I am approachable. There's a nonviolent 'martial' art that Greg Baynard mentioned and I'm really interested in pursuing. It's STRONGER than all the other martial arts and I want to learn it at Jordan River on Vancouver Island in the sand with the rocks and the tide and where the River meets the cleansing of the Ocean.
I'll put up with Isenhart on Kendall Lake in Maple Falls but Jordan is where my heart is.
Hi to the pope. You can call yourself the poop as long as you want
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