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Jun
24
I wore my Skins on the plane yesterday and a woman asked me that. I wanted to say, "if by 'triathlete' you mean some expensive doohickey that is fairly ineffectual and obnoxiously athletic-looking, then yes, these are triathlete pants!" But I just told her they are my compression tights, and yes, I am a triathlete, how did she guess.
Honestly though, I'm not sure they are very effectual. I think I need some regular medical compression tights. The Skins don't have feet on them, even though I pull them over my heels and ankles, I still get really fat toes and feet at the end of a travel day.
So anyway, yesterday I left the east coast and now I am ...
Feb
17
In Search of the Perfect Water Droplet
Category: Splish, quotables, training, trials and tribs | 9 Comments
In my Later Gator suit from SplishToday I had a little encounter with "if you're never going to be the best, then why bother trying." It's an encounter I've had many times, so thankfully I've learned to deal with it efficiently and effectively. 1. Call someone who won't be available and leave a message, 2. (optional) post on twitter detailing how awful everything is, 3. maybe shed a tear, and then 4. get on with swimming (it's always something to do with swimming). I bother trying because even though it sometimes sucks, it usually ...
Feb
3
Today I turned to Ben and absent-mindedly asked "so. What kind of nap are you planning to take?"
To me (and him) it's incredibly obvious that this is a training question infiltrating non-training life. What kind of run are you doing, are you going to the track? What kind of ride? What kind of swim?
What kind of nap? *
Nap intervals? Nap LT? What??
The question, and its obviousness to me, both mean that obviously I am even more boring than the endless stream of WTC announcements. All I think about right now, even subconsciously, is training training training racing training. I'm really hoping I can score a rec center guest pass for when I'm in ...
Nov
2
In this case "it" is not someone's kid, but is instead Lady Gaga's insidious, insipid single "Poker Face". Eric Cartman went and made it AWESOME. I mean sweet. Just try to disagree with me...
Speaking of mu-zak, I went and bought myself a ticket to see Ghostland Observatory at Showbox SoDo this Friday. The 21+ show is on Friday night, and the all ages show is Saturday. I asked the girl at the box office if one was better than the other. "What kind of question is that? Do you LIKE being at a show with a bunch of high schoolers?" Also, in order to "afford" this ticket (thanks, ...
Sep
22
Magic Eye says Yes
Category: Gaslight Anthem, Showbox at the Market, quotables, trials and tribs | 2 Comments
So my 5.5 year old laptop made a solid bid for its retirement a couple of days ago, in the form of a failing video card. I'm actually typing on it right now, since it's not completely dead (yet), but if I am lacking in my usual verbal clarity and awesomeness it's because I'm typing through flashing blue and yellow rows of miniature vertical houndstooth patterns that look like those Magic Eye pictures where you had to cross your eyes to see the dancing purple lion. Ugh. On the positive front, I got a sweet deal on a refurbished MacBook Pro!! I've been obsessively checking my order status all ...
Sep
9
My 31st Birthday Happened!
Category: Bumbershoot, enjoy the blog, quotables | 8 Comments
This big party? For ME?!?!
On Monday I turned 31! Yay. Here's all the awesomeness that happened.
-I got a book about Genghis Khan from my mom. She says "it's the BEST book I've EVER read, oh it's just FASCINATING" so here's hoping my achilles heals in time for Longhorn 70.3 so that I can read it on the plane.
-I also got a phone call from my mom. She sang me Happy Birthday!
-Phil Spencer hand-delivered a giant smorgasbord of awesome presents "from him and Ben" which means Ben was on the phone offering occasional advice while Phil did ...
Jun
19
Is that a DRILL?!
Category: quotables, training, trials and tribs | 6 Comments
Amy Kloner and I head into the water at Eagleman
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I've been taking a week off from training, starting on Monday. Then this coming Monday I will resume training AND AND AND be starting my new job with Amazon!
But the week off has given me some much-needed time for relaxing, regrouping, and reassessing. As for relaxing, top activities thus far have included: riding a horse on Monday (for the last time in a while :( ), and shopping at Target, ostensibly for work clothes but really I just wound ...
Feb
11
A Little Rain here in Paradise
Category: Lean1, Nutrition53, Specialized, enjoy the blog, quotables | 3 Comments
Today was a rainy one hear at Team VAC Camp in Healdsburg! Unlike in Seattle, where it's been 40 and rainy, it was more like 50 and rainy, so: TOTALLY trainable.
I started off with a swim at the nearby Healdsburg Swim Center, which has an outdoor 25 meter pool. (Not pictured to the left - that's our house pool!). I had a great workout, enjoying rain on my shoulders and then gradually seeing the clouds clear and then return. I'm hoping I get at least one sunny day so I can wear one of my new Splish bikinis!
Then we had a 3 hour team ride on ...
Sep
29
The hot ones know they are hot
Category: quotables | 6 Comments
Today I learned from some real-live 21 year old boys why the social scene here in Incline is weak. It's because the girls are "really stuck up, and there aren't that many of them, so the hot ones know they are the hot ones and they won't talk to you, but like in Santa Barbara the girls are all hot and they talk to you."
They also told me I "don't look that old" so that was cool, but clearly since I definitely do talk to people, I am either too old or insufficiently hot to be counted as an Incline girl. I am O.K. with that.
I'd write a better/longer post but I am way busy here on the couch, working ...
Sep
28
Kelly says this is why she will never un-friend me no matter how many times I bug her about how does my hair look and does she hate me, because I always win things (and I am good at sharing things I win with her, like visors and backpacks and beer money at the ball game) and because I know everyone. She came to my cyclocross race yesterday, where I won $100 for fourth place (?!?!) and I was apparently talking to ALL the spectators, during the race, and she heard a lot of "go Courtenay's!". Kelly was impressed, I can tell.
And I am enjoying this newfound security in our friendship.
So now I'd like to share a ...
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