Nervous for all the wrong reasons

ONE MONTH TO GO!

Fitness-wise, I feel phenomenal. The last few Saturdays I've gone from 2-hour Spin class straight to the treadmill, and this week I made it through a 5k in a decent time. I got out on the REAL bike for the first time in almost a year this week and felt great. My swimming is probably sub-par, but I'm confident that I can at least make it 750 meters without drowning, and that's all that really matters.

So whenever I'm exercising, I'm totally worry-free and convinced that Race Day will be fun and exhilarating. Unfortunately, this doesn't last forever. I mentioned before that I'd checked out every triathlon training book the local libraries had to offer, but instead of letting them sit on the floor and collect dust until June, I've actually read some of them. BIG MISTAKE. Joel Friel is trying to give me all of these cycling tips about shifting up and down, how to get the most power out of downhills, gaining speed in corners, etc, and all I can think is : I can't just use one or two gears the whole time? People don't just coast down hills!? Hell, I BRAKE down hills! Ditto for corners. I'm lucky to make it around a curve above 10mph, let alone trying to gain speed.

It's funny to think about how nervous I was before the first 10k Julia & I did and how much research I did about what to eat/what to wear/how to train/etc. All we had to do was show up in sneakers and shorts and trot around flat roads for 6 miles! I really hope that after this tri, we'll sign up for at least two more this summer (sound good guys!?) so eventually getting ready for triathlon race day will be as easy as getting ready for a 10k race day is now.

I just have to remember that we signed up for fun and there will be plenty of other participants that are new and just trying to finish. It would be much easier to be excited and have fun if Anthony and Julia weren't hundreds of miles away and we could train together a little though! SO JULIA, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, CALL ME BACK.