{"id":71,"date":"1999-09-11T22:00:43","date_gmt":"1999-09-12T06:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/1999\/09\/11\/triathlon-the-night-before\/"},"modified":"2007-05-02T17:37:37","modified_gmt":"2007-05-03T01:37:37","slug":"triathlon-the-night-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/1999\/09\/11\/triathlon-the-night-before\/","title":{"rendered":"Triathlon: The Night Before"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is ten p.m. the night before the triathlon and I really don’t feel nervous or excited. I’ve been too wrapped up in the details to really think about the race.
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\nI’ve been sick all week – so sick that I went home early from work every day. I was very worried that I’d be sick on race day. Fortunately, I’m mostly better (but I would have raced no matter what). All week I poured vitamin C, zinc, and echinacea into my body, drank lots of fluids, got lots of sleep, and did everything I could think of to get well. One of those things was to rest – that is, I haven’t worked out since I got back from my trip. I know I’m in good enough shape, but I still wish I could have trained a little more this week. My tapering turned out to be a sharp drop-off instead.
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\nIn any case, it worked and I feel almost well. Tonight I’ve been engrossed in the minutiae of preparing my gear<\/a>. I checked into the race this afternoon and found out I was number 50 – in the first wave. They wrote “50<\/strong>” on both my hands in permanent marker, and gave me numbers to put on my swimsuit, shirt, and bike.
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\nI’ve been thinking about things such as, do I put my sports bra under my swimsuit (before the swim) or on top of my swimsuit (after the swim)? Which running shorts should I wear? Should I bring a hat? What flavor of PowerBar shall I have in the morning? How do I attach that darn number to my bike? Should I wear a ponytail or pigtails?
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\nAnother immediate concern of mine is a headache that I’ve developed. Occasionally I get a headache that lasts for three or four days, that nothing can help, even Tylenol. This headache feels like one of those. I just hope it’s gone in the morning.
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\nSo, as of right now, I haven’t devoted any thought or imagination to what tomorrow will be like. It still seems far away.
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It is ten p.m. the night before the triathlon and I really don’t feel nervous or excited. I’ve been too wrapped up in the details to really think about the race.   I’ve been sick all week – so sick that I went home early from work every day. I was very worried that I’d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-triathlon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}