Nerves Are Setting In

I'm usually not a person to get nervous about anything but for some reason as the days get closer to Sunday I'm getting more and more nervous. I'm not sure if it's the fact that it's my first Tri or maybe that I'm not in that good of a shape to be wearing skin tight shorts in front of a group of people. I don't mind it when I'm at the gym and there are 6 people tops in the pool, but on Sunday it's going to be a lot of spectators. Oh well I'm sure I'm not the only fatty doing this and who cares what people think, I'm doing this for me and me only.

On another note I went and bought some Tri short Monday and tested them out at the pool. They were pretty comfortable in the swim so I'll have to see how they do on the bike and run part. I can't test the bike until Thursday because it's getting tuned up right now.

Tour Dallas

Saturday me and Cally did Tour Dallas. It was 30 miles starting in downtown and taking you through Lakewood, White Rock Lake and back to downtown. It was a nice change to do a leisure ride and not wanting to go as fast as I can. Here are some pics.

I Like New Things

I went for a swim yesterday and it wasn't all that good. I did about 3 laps and I couldn't breathe so I had to stop. I would go two more laps and couldn't breathe. Not sure if I was just tired or hungry but it wasn't a good swim. I'm going to have to step up the swim if I want to finish at a decent time for the Caveman Sprint Tri. I was looking at the results for last years Caveman Sprint Tri for the Clydesdale 1-39 group and I definitely need to improve my swim and run.

I'm improving on my weight but I don't think I'll be below 200 before next week. I've lost 11 pounds since I started writing this blog. I started at 226 and I'm now 215.


On another note I just ordered some new aerobars since I don't have a Tri bike. They're some Profile Design T2 Plus.

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Rock and Roll Half Marathon

Here are some pics from the Rock and Roll Half Marathon. What a small world that we live in that out of 14,000 people I finished right in front of my girlfriend's coworker(in black) without even knowing it.

Starting Line

Almost there

A few more meters

Last bit of encouragement

Gotta finish

Finally

2:37:01

What a sense of accomplishment