Blue Lake Triathlon 2007

I did quite a bit of scrambling to get ready to be a vendor for the two day Blue Lake triathlon which is the largest race I've done so far. We didn't have as much traffic through the vendor area as I would have liked, on Saturday it dumped rain so only age group contenders stuck around for awards and on Sunday the Olympic race was a qualifier for Nationals so everyone had their race face on and looked exhausted after the race. I did make a lot of sales for those who stopped by my booth but not enough people stopped by for me to justify the expense the organizer charged for me to be a vendor there. I think I will try to return here in July for the all-women triathlon but other events I will have to think about.

(The entryway of our house has been a tribabe disaster for the past month) The newborn baby tees were a hit as were the "SWIM BIKE RUN BE FABULOUS" ladies tees and they are both fun to sell so I was happy to be there. We had to get up at 4am both Saturday and Sunday to drive up to Portland for the event and thank goodness Bill is an excellent morning driver because I am totally useless in the morning. After the race we drove home, ate, showered, and slept until dinner time then we went to bed. Friday night we stayed up and watched "The Departed" an excellent Leo DeCaprio movie (I have a thing for him) and we both recommend it but maybe not to watch the night before an early wake up call.

On Sunday Bill raced the Olympic distance race while I played vendor again. I got to see him come into the transition area after the swim and he was positioned well but that was about it for him, his bike split was not competitive and then his run was about 5 minutes slower than what it should be as his lower back seized up and his ankle started aching immediately. I think the lack of training showed up and he got smacked down. But still, since his last race he had biked once, run once (I made him) and swam once and he was still 14th out of 56 people in his division.

School is finished this week (WOOOO HOOO!) so he will have more time to train while he looks for a job. He is scheduled for Pacific Crest 1/2 Ironman in two weeks so that will be interesting... The OSU Triathlon Club pays for member's races so Bill has been racing for free this season and he couldn't say no to the races at that price and this will be his last time as a student so I didn't fight him on it too much. I might have to say something if he's still icing his ankle next week before the race. He has had two ankle surgeries since playing college soccer and I'm not going to quietly watch him injure himself again doing tris. I can't wait to go to Bend though for Pac Crest and then the week after that we are off to Pheonix... in July. We're crazy.

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