Thursday night was ok. It would have been waaaay better if the Redskins, my first football love, had shown up for their game against the Giants before halftime. John Madden, Al Michaels - they rock. I was thrilled to hear their voices again.Sunday, though. Sundays are the real deal: day games, night games, Donna and I more or less cheerfully working out which game will be on the big screen this week. (She's from Miami and therefore a Dolphins fan, I'm a Titans fan primarily, and we're both interested in watching the Colts.) We are ready for some football!! John assures us he, too, is ready for football season. He has all kinds of episodes of something or other loaded up on his computer to watch and he made a run to the library for a stack of books. (You may have gathered we are not exactly the typical A-mur-ican household.) The x-chromosome folks are the rabid sports fans. (Can you believe the US Open women's finals and the men's semi-finals match between Rafa Nadal and Andy Murray are on during football today? Argh!) The y laden peeps could care less. ("The US Open? You watch golf now?") Still ... it works for us.
Maybe with all the football and tennis on today, I will be distracted and forget to freak out about my upcoming race. The race that is now less than a week away. Yay! Yikes! Ok - looks like I'll be able to multi-task in the arena of sports watching and freaking out. We have to take our bikes apart to put in the cases today. For uber-mechanical people like Wes, Kevin, and DC Rainmaker that probably doesn't sound intimidating. For learned-how-to-clean-her-bike-chain-last-week kind of folks like me? EEEEEEEEEK! Triathlon has me doing the craziest things. It is sooooo not only about the swim-bike-run! Triathlon is also very much about nutrition-gear-plans and balance-strength-stretching and mental-emotional-physical and probably a bunch of other trifectas I don't know even about yet!Clearly another freakout is commencing. Hints about putting bikes in cases to schlep across country (on a plane this time) would be welcome. Luck to the IM peeps and other crazy racers today!
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I need to get NFL network so I can always watch my patriots!
Woo Hoo it's football time! Iw as thinking of attempting to go to the Titans game today-but I think it will be $$$$$$ oh well.! One week and counting! How excited are you??? You'll do great! Where are you flying into to???
Hell Yeah...bring on the cheese dip, baby!
GO COWBOYS!!!!
It's Football season again? already? why do these things overlap so much? isn't baseball still happening? it's so confusing...
I am an ex football fan. We don't watch any of it. Were it not for my best friend's Super Bowl party last year I would not have known who made it in.
I used to be a rabid Cleveland Browns fan. That just got to be too stressful. So I quit.
Can't WAIT to read about your race. Oh YA!
Football, what's that???? We NZ'ers watch rugby (All Blacks baby, All Blacks).
Anyhoo, good luck packing up. Can't help but sooooo know what you mean about this sport being more than swim bike run... if I knew then what I know now......????
Ummmmm. I haven't even learned to clean my chain yet, much less box a bike. I wanna learn though!! I just have such a hard time getting excited about football. I guess I'm not Amerucan either :-)
Could read you blog yesterday because it was COLLEGE FOOTBALL day! It's an official holiday here in Oklahoma.
I'm so excited for you and everyone else out west next weekend. What's with the flying?? Wasn't that drive fun? Gas is only $4 trillion an ounce so why not?!?
Good luck and I can't wait to hear your take on the race. Watch out for those sexual predatory sea lions.
I knew there was a reason I liked Donna. Go Dolphins! (I am originally from South Florida).
Here - http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/cms/article-detail.asp?articleid=1538 is a link to a video done by fellow blogger Marni on how to dissasemble your bike for shipping. It is very well done.
If you have any other questions, drop me a line and I will try to help you best I can
Why don't you have Tribike (or some service like it) do it for you?
They break your bike down, ship it, pick it up, reassemble and you pick it up at a local bike shop. It was only about $100 more than shipping on your own. Totally worth it in my book. I honestly do not think I would be willing to ride anything I had any part in assembling.
Football? meh.
Sorry, it bores the crap out of me. I know, I am such a girl!
Can't wait to see you again! 5 days!
Good luck on that race! Can't wait to hear how it goes!
It could have been worse...you could have been rooting for the Seahawks...
Oh, and as for my mechanical prowness as you call out...umm...not so much. I'm thrilled when it goes back together looking something like a bike. If I end up with only 1.5 wheels - that's good enough for me.
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