Monday, Tuesday: The cold is back. How can this be? This is its third round. So I spend these two days in bed.
Wednesday: Our group is running around the Green Lake track. We get to do fartleks. Yes, fartleks. Funny name, fun to do. First, do an easy lap. Then sprint the straight sections of one lap. Repeat the whole thing. Repeat again. Again. And again. Somewhere around here my knee started hurting. I switched to walking.
Thursday: A nice bike ride with Bob.
Friday: I packed up the Mini with my bike, wet suit, running clothes, sleeping clothes, food, tent, sleeping bag and whatever else I thought of and headed north to Skagit Valley. One of my teammates has volunteered her cabin as an overnight stop on the way to Bellingham. It is Friday night of Memorial Weekend so instead of an hour, the drive takes three hours. Our group straggles in, all complaining about the traffic.
This "cabin" was nice enough to be featured on the cover of Sunset magazine. I didn't even have to put up the tent or use the sleeping bag. Got a real bed.
Saturday: Our bunch caravans to Bellingham to check out our triathlon course. The weather report says, "scattered showers". I think there is nothing scattered about this. It is pouring.
We get on our bikes, break into groups, and take off on the course. It's wet. I give a little advice on going wet downhills to one my teammates. The road is nice. The scenery is nice. We get lost. We loop around a few times. Finally, of trying to find the course, we concentrate on finding our way back to the parking lot. We are drenched and hungry. Dry clothes, some snacks, and most of us head back home.
Later I get a report from our hostess. She had spent the weekend taking care of us, but not taking care of herself. She didn't eat much breakfast, didn't dress warm enough, and didn't drink water on the ride. (There's that pesky problem of gripping the the handlebars.) Luckily her husband picked her up after the ride. She was fading in and out and ended up in emergency, diagosed and treated for hyperthermia, dehydration, and exhaustion. She now advises us, "When the coach talks about nutrition, listen."
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