Most of the comments were encouraging, with some misgivings for my safety. About what one would hope for from a group of friends and Facebook friends.
Friday, March 25, 2016
Monday, March 7, 2016
You Want Me to What?
On March 7th, 2016, I received an exciting (and frightening) email from Human Resources at our employer, US Xpress.
Anxiously, I clicked on the link. I was thinking that a challenging race late this summer would set me up for a nice PR on my December marathon in California.
May 22, 2016
May? As in May: not next month, but the one after that? I double-checked. Yep, May of this year. Conflicting thoughts raced through my head.
Don't people train for months for Half-Ironman races? Free! As in, "no entry fee?" Don't those things cost $300 or so? Didn't I just have the lowest mileage months of running in years in January and February? Yea, but free! And no time-off counted against you. Let's see, last bike ride was October of 2015, and last swim workout was in Costa Rica in September of 2015. Hey, last time US Xpress offered you free entry into a race, it was an Olympic Length Triathlon occurring just a week after a marathon. You pulled that one off. But a Half-Ironman is more than TWICE the distance of the Olympic-length triathlon.
I came to the conclusion that I would have to be an idiot to sign up for such a challenging race with so little preparation time.
So. Of course I signed up.
See you in Chattanooga.
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