The TriathleteNut

Still sick and not getting any better. Looks like Loma Linda Tri will be a no show for me.

Still sick and not getting any better. Looks like Loma Linda Tri will be a no show for me.

Still Sick like a dog. No training which probably means no TRIATHLON on Sunday the 30th. What a disapointment!

But I’ll be there in San Diego no matter what! May 7th here I come! 12 more days

Sick

I’m sick!

This is the sickest I’ve been all year. I can’t move. My body aches. I can’t breath, I can’t sleep… I’m down for the count and I can’t get up.

I have a triathlon in a week. Then another one a week after that. If I have to I’ll skip the Tri on April 30th because I want to do the May 7th one. It’s the big Triathlon I’ve been training for since I started so I definitely don’t want to miss it. Next week’s tri was one I signed up on as a whim and will eat the $45 if I have to. I want to be 100% for the first open water swim in May.

Anyway… that’s all I have to say today. Donna and the kids are at the Galleria, I’m at home with my stuffy nose and the Dodger game.

Nyquil, take me away!

Full blown sickness…

I was shivering during Jake’s game. Then had to host his birthday party at ARC. Taking a nap helped, but by night fall I really felt sick.

Good night.

No workout today. We had a little birthday gather for Jake. I’m also starting to feel sick. I think its from the allergy shots on Thursday.

No workout tonight. Why? BECAUSE!!!

17 days left till San Diego!

I belong to a forum for Beginner Triathletes and every so often a post comes up about a cyclist being killed while biking. And sometimes it’s ‘one of our own’ so to speak - someone from the forums and a fellow Triathlete in training. Sometimes its just incidents of a car getting too close, or someone getting clipped, or someone getting run off the road. But this week a fellow Triathlete got nailed in a hit and run and is in the hospital due hip surgery. This just after running the Boston Marathon and going for a training ride yesterday. Hopefully he’ll be okay.

Just recently this cyclist was hit and killed by a car: April 17th - 2006 “Bicyclist Killed In Hit-And-Run Along Loop 360”

I rarely bike on the street. Sometimes I just have to get out there and pedal but my path is short and its up a wide road up a hill. Sometimes I bike up and down a very busy street - Verdugo/Glendale Ave - and this is scary. Cars get really close even when I’m in a bike lane. And when that lane ends cards zip by with no regard to bikers safety. I’ve been in a car next to these cyclist so I know to give them space and I move over if I have to.

I’ve been hit by a car once - many many many years ago. I had no injuries and didn’t fall… I just got clipped. I was young and on my BMX bike when a lady turned right at a stop light in front of me. I hit her bumper and left a scratch and gave her the bird. She saw me… she looked into her rear view, saw me flick her off and sped away. BITCH!

After being on a bike for the past four months I’ve gotten a feel for other cyclyst and what they go through. I dread that one day I’ll be hit by a car which is why I try to do all my training at the Rose Bowl - and its not always safe there but at least others are there to witness and come to your aide.

This year I will be riding in the “Ride of Silence” in honor of ‘fallen’ riders who have been injured or killed. It is held at night as a slow group ride. Here is more info: www.rideofsilence.org

Date: May 17, 2006
Time: 7:00 pm
Where: At over 120 U.S. locations and eight other countries

If you’re interested find a “Ride of Silence” location where you live and show your support!

I’d appreciate it… as well as everyone else who rides a bike or knows someone that does.

Finally. A swim and a run… AND… Little League Baseball Practice which took more out of me than both the swim and run combined!

22m 42s 800.00 meters 2m 50s /100 meters
26m 57s 3.00 miles 8m 59s /mile