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[Note: the saga begins below]

With Paulo’s reluctant approval, I went ahead and registered for the Lone Star sprint distance race as well. My schedule for next weekend now looks like this:

Friday afternoon: Fly to Houston. Pick up rental car. Drive to Galveston.

Saturday morning: Lone Star sprint triathlon. .3 mile swim (how far is that anyhow, like 400 meters? what’s the point?), 12.5 mile bike, 3 mile run. Make sure to get in a good cooldown.

Saturday afternoon and night: rest as much as possible.

Sunday morning: Lone Star half ironman. That would be the 1.2 mile swim, 56 mile bike, 13 mile run that I’d been planning on doing for several weeks now. I can’t imagine that I’ll be totally wrecked by a one hour race the day before, but it will be my first race of the season so I’m anticipating some residual soreness. Oh well, I’ll just have to make sure to get a good warmup in. The last time I did a race put on by this group, they delayed the start while I was warming up and I got in almost 3000 meters. That would probably be excessive, but twenty or twenty-five minutes in the water wouldn’t be a bad thing.

Here goes nothing. Wish me luck – I’ll need it!