Athens
March 11, 2006
Athens, Texas
300-yard pool swim -
12-mile bike - 5K run
My wife had to take care of
some medical issues with my aging mother and could not go with me this time. It put a cloud on this event, a kind of
strange, silent emptiness.
I did fine on the pool swim (never liked pool swims), and the bike was going well, though the wind was in our face going out on the out-and-back course. That was when I really began to miss my Pat. I reached down for a drink from my water bottle only to find that instead of mixing my sports drink powder in the bottle, I had poured in salt. In the dark of that morning, fixing my drinks, somehow, I had picked up a plastic bag of salt rather than one containing my recovery drink. My wife would have never let that happen.
Now I was really
thirsty. The turnaround had an aid
station, but all they had was a shot of water in those ridiculously small cone
cups. Thank God, the wind was at my
back going in because, after that shot, I was quite thirsty. It could be that some might have been in my
head just knowing I did not have any water.
Maybe I was being a baby? After
drinking copious amounts of water at transition, I had a fairly good run,
though I did slosh in my stomach quite a bit while running. I did
not stay for the awards ceremony as I was anxious to get home. I
think I placed in my age group, but I cannot remember what. I just know it was not the first and I was ready to be home.
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