Saturday, May 31, 2008

Well That Didn't Work

Today is one of those days. I know they will happen, and there are more to come... but they are frustrating when they do.

It started off early with good intentions. Meet up with a couple of girls from the tri club to head to Poolesville and do a 50 mile loop. We get there and realize no one has a good cue sheet. Now I did prepare, print one off - but it said we would be on a dirt trail. When I e-mailed and asked, I was told it would be okay and other girl had done the route and didn't say anything about the trail. So, I didn't bother looking into it more.
I couldn't get my new water bottle to velcro so we tried to tie down... realized 20 minutes into the ride that it didn't work
We kept stopping trying to figure out where to go
I really had to go to the bathroom (even though we stopped to go before we started)
The major storm clouds were rolling in - but it wasn't supposed to storm until noon
And between all of this, I just didn't feel right. I had a bad gut feeling about the ride and decided to cut out after an hour when we wound up back at the cars. The other girls understood and took off to finish.

I don't quit, I don't. So I decided to flip my brick to today and do my long ride tomorrow, put on my running shoes and started to run. But I couldn't. Something wasn't right so I just headed home. BOO!!

I get back, there is a Uhall in my spot!! I just park behind it - completely exhausted and disappointed, and start to unload Marcus. Some guy comes out asking if it was my spot (duh) and he would move. I needed some good karma so I let him keep my spot to move in for the day and drove around for 15 minutes until I found a place to park.

Now I am awake and annoyed so I decided to finish my run. I head down the street and there is some "Hillary, let Florida votes count" rally thing going on and people will not move!! Blah! I don't want to get into a political discussion and in all honesty, don't completely know what happened. FL and MI wanted an early primary, the Dems said okay but it won't count, everyone was okay with it at the time, now some groups are not okay with that decision. Whatever, don't throw a sign in my face for Hillary as I am running down the street. My frustration level was really high and I went out way too fast. It did make me feel better though.

So this is my rant of the day. I kind of did a brick, but not really because there was an hour in between the bike and run. I wanted to swim, but from my life guarding days I know they close the pool when there is lightning, which it is about to start.

Just one of those days that makes me wonder what I got my self into and if I can really handle this for the next 3 months...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

You will have those days all the way up to September. Just keep the goal in mind and at it. Just think what Marty is going through. Your's in some ways is easier, at least it's voluntary.