Home Sweet Home

  Sunday, June 24, took Hermes and I are both in the Philadelphia Insurance Triathlon (Olympic Distance). I love this race because the route includes some of the finest and most interesting of Philadelphia. The swim 0.9 miles begins at the boat house in St. Joe, east side of the Schuylkill River and ending on the west side of the river to the transition zone. This bath is very soothing with trees and greenery line the banks of the river, so that you forget that you are in a river, which divides a large American city to bathe.

The 24.8 mile bike leg of the race is two loops through Fairmount Park and is a subset of the bike in the Pro Tour cycling race used. Fairmount Park is a large urban city park system and is really beautiful and I would like to see it as an oasis in my town. The race is 6.2 miles round trip on Martin Luther King Drive.

I had a great race and I felt pretty strong the whole time. I admit I was a little bit about my ability to recover, in full flight after exhausting Alcatraz Triathlon two weeks ago worried. The results speak for themselves - consistency in training (remember, I wrote that the consistency is the key in my previous blog). My only problem was about 4 mile from the race to take my right thigh, so I slowed down a little and began to massage the problem area, as I ran. The pain eased and I could take back my pace and finish strong. I sat in my age group in the fourth, but still better ... I beat Hermes 4 minutes!

Hermes penchant for adventure never ceases to amaze and entertain me. Before going into details I will first prepare the ground - as the transition area is set up for a triathlon. The transition zone is defined with bike racks, and each row / rack has assigned a set of numbers. The main reason for this is that everyone has the same advantage / disadvantage. One way to think about: If your bike is in the grip of your bike / motorcycle to go to any extent, but the guy on the other side of the transition zone. To provide you and the other boys on a level, you will run it on the other side of the transition zone and the other guy is right next to the race. Each rack is equipped with stickers in numerical order, lined with the starting number of athletes together. When Hermes was his 630th point

One of the first things that an athlete has is on the morning of the race to collect their bikes in the designated area and set up their equipment to operate. Biking shoes, helmet, goggles and can be on the front and running shoes, a treadmill and a hat to be right behind. You do not have much space, consider an area that contains a large pair of shoes and two pairs of shoes is deep. The next thing an athlete - and this is probably the most important - it is, for fast ways to get your bike racks to find when you search by swimming and cycling come. There are two reasons: The obvious one is that it is two thousand bikes in transition, and the second reason, you're a little confused by your practice during the swimming and cycling. I had a wonderful Sunday Locator - a utility pole - and they led me right to my transition area at any time.

Hermes adventure began when he finished his leg cycling. It was in transition and found his bike rack, but went up on the wrong side! It plagued his bike to the place he thought was his running shoes on and discover just, they were not her! At that time he was very excited and shouted: "Where do I belong transition?" A sympathetic participant told him he was on the wrong side of the rack. He then had to quickly unrack his bike and earn the right place - valuable time was lost - but not enough to say that was the reason I beat him!

Hermes adventures often transition (it is not as obsessed as I am on the implementation of their neighborhood, and prepare their business, and our daughter always reminds him that he should be). Once he shot what he (was not a good idea to put the gel with his running shoes) from a gel of thought energy on his backpack and pulled down the catwalk. About a mile into the race, he tore the "freezing" only to discover it was a sample of shampoo. I am always amused by Hermes!