Woke up this morning and decided on the spur of the moment to help out at the Autumn Breeze 5K and 10K runs....do the volunteer thing to give back to the sport, y'know? So I loaded the MTB in the back of the truck and drove out to the Baptist church where the run starts and ends. Afterwards, my plans were to work out a ride on that mountain bike and see how much I suck at it. Then much later go to Monroe for the football game.
So I get to the race site, dressed out in my cold winter Team LaS'port garb ('cause it is kinda chilly) and asked Justin where he could use me as a volunteer. He puts me at the finish line with three other kids and our job is to remove the timing chips attached by a thin zip-tie from the shoes of the runners after they cross the finish line. We each have nail clippers to do the job and they work rather well. There end up being about 450 finishers across that line that we squat down to remove the chips from. That really means I did about 100 (plus or minus) squats using my own weight so I got a heck of a workout! I didn't really think about it until nearly everyone crossed the line....I had been bouncing up and down to remove the chips (with no problems) and I suddenly thought about how sore my legs were going to be on Sunday!
After getting some yummy gumbo at the race, I drove over to Stoner to get my mountain bike legs. I rode almost 50 minutes on the trails, mostly on the easier ones, and my legs will be sore for sure. The pedals were just plain ones so my quads did most of the work this time. Tomorrow when I go out, I'll switch out a pair of Looks (cleated pedals) on the bike and use my road shoes to see how that pans out. At least I should get more power out of the pedals, especially on the backstrokes. I only hit one tree with the handlebars and ducked around several more!
The ULM Warhawks lost again, to Middle Tennessee, 35-21. We lead at halftime 21-14 but couldn't put it together in the second half. We looked really good in the second quarter when we scored three touchdowns....couldn't be stopped. So I don't know what happened later in the game. Anyway, MT came back to take the lead and that's all she wrote. Sat with Lisa, who did the VO2 max test for me earlier this week, and her husband, Lane, in the upper deck of the east side stands at Malone Stadium. She was keeping up with the splits of two friends of hers who were doing the Ironman World Championships in Hawaii today via her handy-dandy cell phone! Both were doing fine but their times were probably not what they were hoping for. The supposedly faster of the two had an 18 mph average on the 112-mile bike portion and that probably should have been a bit faster. Don't know how it ended up.
Got a message from my sweetie today and she's going to call me in the morning (evening, her time). I've replayed the message several times now and it really just tugs at my heart because it's so sweet. I love her and miss her a lot....can't wait to see her in about 30 days. Keep the Kleenex ready!!!
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