let me introduce you to my special friend stephani…

2871 days ago

let me introduce you to my special friend stephanie. if you have been reading for a while, you already know her. we met at the theater.

she is witty and charming and smart and interesting and supportive and nice, and tall, and distractingly beautiful. she wears outrageous socks, and is right now playing a featherduster in Beauty and the Beast. we share a voice part in The Secret Garden, which is too high for me and too low for her. she taught me my lines last weekend when i was standing in for a kid who was out of town.

and in other news i was accepted to the master’s program in linguistics at cu-boulder last week. and this saturday, drum roll, i’m racing at ralph’s half ironman in oceanside, california. it will be my first pro race, and judging by the start list i am horrifically out of my depth. a few of the folks i will toe the line with:

  • rutger beke – second last year at the hawaii ironman
  • luke bell – fifth last year at the hawaii ironman
  • michael lovato – won ironman coeur d’alene last year
  • will ronco – once won a small race in greeley colorado when no one really good showed up

so i’m jittery – that’s read “terrified” – although i think i am ready. there was no time to get more ready, and i guess i have done as much as i can. i practiced, and practiced, and practiced some more. i did endurance and tempo and threshold and sprints and hills, and i swam in the morning and i swam at night and sometimes i swam in the middle of the day. i ran, less than last winter but still up to 85 miles in some weeks, rested and tired and hung over and sick, overdressed and underdressed and once with only one sock on. i rode my bike outside and inside, fast and slow, with music and without music, yelling at troy jacobsen. i rode in the kitchen at night with all the lights off, and i rode outside in winds that nearly knocked me off my bike. i rode my tri bike and my road bike, and i blew snot rockets on the door of my oven doing a workout video. i did yoga.

i suppose you can never be completely ready, but i have worked very hard, and i am definitely more ready than i have ever been before, so i guess i will go and race. wish me luck!

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