This has been my first season and I've been training since the first week of November. I'm ready for the offseason. I see several holes in my training plan, and I'm looking forward to working on my plan here and getting back to it on Monday November 17th!

If someone shit in the pool, I would be way pissed off. With that kind of luck of course you suffered on the bike...Seriously, shit in the pool?

110 degrees??? You don't need winter, you need to move to Newfoundland. It was 15 degrees celsius here and raining. Nice and cool. Great climbing weather. Brrrrr.

Me too. Have done probably 10 hours in July since IM. Go me. This time of year - 100 degrees every day - I'm more interested in couches, air conditioning, and beer by in the pool.

beer in the pool is much better than poop in the pool.

I can complain to you guys, but if I dare say anything negative about training to someone else, I already know the reply. "Why are you doing it then?"

Yesterday I emailed my wife about doing my first HIM on Oct 25. Her reply wasn't "Great idea, that's only 60 min from where my Grandma lives, and 60 min from Disney!" and she didn't give a constructive reason not to. She said "Have fun...you do not need my permission to make your body feel like crap."

Unrelated to people not understanding, but still a complaint: This time last year, my brother begged and begged me to run road races with him. Now that I'm in shape, I asked him to run a 5k last week, and he watched instead. We did our first 10 mile and half marathon together last year, but in May when I did my first marathon, he changed his mind 2 weeks before the race and signed up for the half.

Basically, I need to surround myself with competitive people, so I don't feel so out of place.

Be careful. Family is first, but could feel competitive for their own reasons when it sounds like you've pulled all your training together. Remind the wife grandma lives an hour away or that Disney is there too. Hit it before she can say have fun. Your brother, you could remind him how it felt to do the the race together and finish together. Surround yourself with the competitive people, but keep family closer.

Two years ago I was on the beach in Mexico and a rain squall came over. The wind picked up. We had no shelter and no rain clothes. I was wet, very cold and far from the hotel, besides we had paid for beach admission - it was a dolphin park.
I swore that if God would only make it stop and the sun come out I would NEVER again complain about being too hot during the summer, so.. bring on the 100 degrees and the humidity.

Remember, I live in Canada. You people don't know from cold!

heh.

PoC

Good one. Somebody's brain is working this Tuesday morning.

PoC

One of the last tri's I did, the kid's went first, then the adults. At the end of one of the laps, the kid was saying to the cheering father, "I threw up in the pool" and the father said, "it's okay, keep going!"

I thought to myself, "Self, please don't swallow any water, please!" Nasty!!! :) Not as bad as poop, but there was probably some of that too. :(