And he raineth on them K-Swiss to run with, Yea, Xterra in one day
Mrs Loeberg taught me in grade 9 that I should not to start a sentence with ‘And’. And look where it’s gotten me!
So I received a K-Swiss care package today. I was expecting a set of track pants, one pair of shoes, and was hoping for maybe a pair of socks or a t-shirt.
The box was so big that it took up more than it’s half of the front of the rental car (my mtb was in the trunk, and a Specialized super sweet 18.5 lb Carbon Stump Jumper was taking up the back seat). I need to clone myself 7 times to wear all this stuff. On the plus side I won’t have to do laundry every other day because I’ve run out of clean clothing. Of course I started the season running in cycling jerseys, Sean took pity on me (or was embarrassed
to be seen in my company) and lent me dry-fits to run in. I guess I can return those tops now that I have some DOPE-ASSED ones of my own.
Yes I’ve been humming: I . Love . My . K-Swiss. I love my K-Swiss…
Since Kona I spent a week touring (I would call it adventuring, but don’t want to scare my mother) on the Big Island, and staying active. This week I’ve been over on Maui and having a really great time with Bill and Kriss in their beautiful home ‘up country’. Swimming in the ocean the other morning I dove down and rubbed the back of a sea turtle as he swam beneath me. He kinda spun around to give me the ’sup dude and kept on swimming, swimming swimming. Really good times here.
After realizing that the pool I was in was 27m (who builds a 27m pool?) I’m happy that my swim times are OK. My biking legs feel good (though I’ve decided that my FS bike will suit the course better than the beautiful Specialized). I wrapped up a speed workout on the track which went well and reminded my body what running fast will feel like.
How will I do? Well I think, but we’re really in uncharted waters here. I seem to be recovered and still fit from Hawaii, so it should be good.
The swim is 2×750m loops, the bike is 31 or so km up and down a volcano. It’s not technical, but there are softball sized lava stones on fast descents, which will be a high possibility of a nasty crash. Thorns will make for bad flats…. etc etc. We run on a mix of pavement, dirt road, ankle busting lava rocks and beaches.
The course is closed to previewing, and … I’ll keep you posted. You can rest assured that I’ll be givin’ ‘er stink in my first race toeing the line with the pro’s. (No I haven’t turned pro, but Xterra is different, and I’m able to start as a pro because of my Mtb license.)
The Kona times have been truly great, when things calm down I’ll fill you in on them… (a 2 day, double red eye flight could make the recover take a while, though Sheri has me signed up for a cross race the weekend after this. Ohhh dear.
Race Coverage will be on www.xterra.tv
OK take care from T.I.T. Heaven,
Nat
(as always T.I.T.s are Triathletes In Training)
2 Comments
Sheri Jay on October 27th, 2008
Oh Nat that cross race is going to be fun. It is in Kanata. Very windy open course with a good hill. Snow forecast here for tommorow. It will be a rude awakening after Hawaii. Maybe you should stop someone in between to acclimatize gradually:)
Nort O'Fori V on October 26th, 2008
Rumour has it that you will turn into a block of ice within 37 minutes of returning to Ottawa as the temperature change will be so great to your system.
T.I.T.’s should be prepared for P,O,O, like this.
(as always P.O.O. is Poor Organizational Outcomes)