About ten different things to do right now (in the next two hours, before my son gets out of school--Fridays are early-release days) so I'll be brief.
Tomorrow morning at this time I'll be in pain...no other way to put it. But maybe there will be some sort of endorphin-fueled rush involved as well...tomorrow at around 10:30 I'll be finishing up (hopefully) my first sprint triathlon. Hope to do it in one hour fifteen minutes or less. But I'll try to be happy with any time whatsoever--any proof that I did it. I'm going to try to remember Joe Friel's advice for first-time triathlon racers: "Your only goal is to finish with a smile."
My son has been playing an iPad game involving the characters from the "Minions" movie; I've heard the music from that game a thousand times, so that's the (crazy, manic) music that will probably be playing in my head for at least part of the race. Not entirely inappropriate. All of us triathletes are minions for the American semi-elitist, upper-middle-class lifestyle...in that respect I'm not taking this race all that seriously.
I just want to get out of it with my body and sanity intact, and a smile on my face.
(And finish in less than 1:15.)
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