Tri Me

Code Brown
Well, I'm still in brown town. Bland food (white rice, plain bagels etc.) seem to give me no problem. But the 2 slices I ate last night came BLASTING out the ole chocolate starfish about 5 minutes after ingestion. FUCK! And today, I had to bail out of a run at the 4 mile mark for a good 15 minute session of grunting and sweating. All is not well in Al's bowels.

Al Jonesin' For A Tri Bike

Dudes/dudettes: I'm jonesin' for the full aero kit. This tri fired me UP! I have no fucking clue why an aero bike would be better than my Lemond Zurich, but I want one. That's the kind of dick I am. Here's the run down on my tri performance.


I placed 68th overall and 15th in my age group. I had a 1:45.53 for the tri. I can't really figure out the splits on the tri website. I know I did my 1/2 mile lake swim and transition to bike in about 13 minutes (the time from start to the end of the transition--the moment when I pushed the bike over the pad and started leg 2). Coupla things I know will improive this split next time: I won't "wait" at that start to avoid really mixing it up in the water at start. This caused me a minute or more. I'll set up my transition area better/faster next time. This cost me 30 seconds prolly.

I know I did the bike to run transition and the 4 mile run in about 32 and small change. That's all I know here. This transition could have been faster too.

Side notes:

Props to Al K. he came in to this tri withoput much training and manned up with a 1:47 finish.

KICK ASS HEYWOOD! Heywood Jablome is doing an adventure race this weekend (a triathlon that includes swimming a waterfall, mountain biking down a lava field, and corn holing a polar bear). Heywwod is a stud, and I know he'll do us proud.

Freddy-boy is core training, running, and prepping for cross season. He's out of the closet, tearin' up the yoga mat, and ready/willing/able to eat quiche.

GVB: what the fuck is gvb doing? To quote Pink Floyd: "Is there anybody...out there..."