random important thoughts

In no particular order...

1. Suzy Seduza came home yesterday. Here is a picture of her. Isn't she gorgeous? I think she is a Suzy. Suzy Q, I am told, is an excellent TT song. This is a good thing, I feel. She is almost lost in the sea of bikes in our spare room. This time last year we owned but 2; now we have 4 bikes.
2. Monocoque. I just like that word: Monocoque.
3. My husband put himself on Suzy, and pronounced her good enough for him to ride. Get this - he really thinks I might let him ride her. He's so funny!
4. I got a Digital Camera for Christmas. Can you tell?


5. There are 7 time zones between Scotland and where we live. It takes about 1 day per time zone to fully recover from the jetlag. You can imagine how I feel. It's as if I'm sleepwalking. Having said that, coming home is 1000 times easier than going out, jetlag wise.


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7. Since I didn't get into the race, I helped out at the Edinburgh Triathlon while I was in Scotland. I feel I should do an entire post on this, as it was a very unusual experience. However, see point 4 above about jetlag. I'll get to it, I will. Here is a photo which I hope will give you a taste of my experience - do these people look wet? If they do, it's because...well, they're wet.


8. Hip and knee hurty have not let up. I went for a treadmill run 2 nights ago and couldn't even get past 2.5 miles before I had to stop. Like STOP stop.


9. I went to see my Sports chiro today about this. As I suspected, it is my old nemesis Mr. IT band back again. The orthotic tweaking we have done is not sufficient because I have been complacent in my maintenance. Maintenance, for my IT band issues include Foam Roller, copious stretching of both IT band and hip, Piriformis excercise, weight training to equalize the weak parts of my legs (hamstrings, in particular), core work. I do tons of core work, but hardly any leg work and I've gotten bad about my stretching.
10. Dr. Peer turned my leg into hamburger in an effort to get the IT band to change its course. This will take time. He reminded me why I hate going to the Sports Chiro, but why it's such a good thing. It works, but it hurts LIKE FIRE when he's working on me.


11. I've pretty much resigned myself to not doing Rock and Roll (see above). I think it would be a huge psychological blow to go out there and end up walking 3/4 of the race. And I have the rest of the season (including my A race) on my mind. Tantrum forthcoming. Right now, I'm too tired.
12. I shall, therefore, attempt to cross train. Cross country skiing may happen soon. I have to find some way to burn off the 10 lbs of bacon that followed me home from Scotland. On my ass.
13. Call me Bacon Butt at your peril.
14. Santa was very good to me.
15. I even got socks to match
16. And a really cool jacket
17. As of today, I no longer have hair pants. It would really slow me down in the pool.