(photos: Team in Training (TNT)Michelle and Jacky at water stop, Wallace Station eatery, Switzer Bridge and other bridge where feet took a dip under it)

Saturday May 12, 2007

If It was easy there wouldn’t be any point now would there.

(Above statement from another triathlete)

And it is not easy, the 3 discipline training, yet Ken and I keep doing it. Is this the point? All friends, family and foes are shaking their heads at us and saying the word "crazy." ARE WE? Probably.

This Saturday found me running 14 miles with the TNT running group. They are SO much fun, but I was called an "evil" coach because I told them they could not listen to their IPods until we had finished running hilly Bowman's Mill Road. This maneuver helped as it slowed the fast ones down since it made us all converse. It was a great run! Hot and Humid, but successful!

Ken had already compiled 28 miles when he met me at Falling Springs around 11:30 for a quick pump up my tires and a bathroom stop. We rode until about 1:30 and stopped at Wallace Station for a delicious chicken salad sandwich and black bean/corn salad. We rode another 60 miles in Woodford, Franklin and Fayette Co. stopping to cool our feet off in Elkhorn creek under the Switzer covered bridge and our usual stop for a cool drink in Midway in front of the Black Tulip where the owner filled my water bottle up and added ICE. Funniest moment all day was after giving Ken some GU, he commented that it tasted like Shrek's snot! OMG - it did! Not that either of us has ever tasted snot, but when he said this, I knew exactly what he meant.

We met a couple from Brazil (living in Lexington now) that told us about a relay run held in the city of Fortaleza. (next athletic goal?) where they run some of it on the beach. SIGN me up!

It was hot all day (upper 80s) and when we stopped and got off our bikes for pee breaks or Mt. Dew breaks, or Ken waiting on me breaks-we turned into balls of sweat.

Cars - trucks-what can I say - they just don't look for us and there were a couple of them that wanted to cut the corners and take us out in the process. There was a cute couple on a tandem bike and a truck was going to pass them, but I was in the way! I said "HEY" and they thought I was being friendly to them and they smiled at me and then they heard the rest of my sentence, "MF truck-don't pass!" and they looked shocked. I hope they realized I was trying to save lives there! Otherwise they think I am a crazy lady, well we have established that in the beginning of this blog entry!

This coming Saturday - we will be riding 100 miles.