Are you a leader or will you follow?
Are you a fighter or will you cower?
It's our time to take back the power
The Interrupters, 'Take Back the Power'
This!
Have been feeling sort of sluggish this summer. Maybe the heat, maybe the hormonal adjustments, maybe the losing Strummer, probably a combination of them all plus who knows what. My race from 2 weeks ago (Xterra Winter Park) was postponed to this weekend due to some freak rain and flooded trails and 40 degrees and cloudy on race morning. I was so thankful the race director postponed. Apparently one person was giving him a load of hassle, sending loads of texts with pictures of the trail in places where it was o.k. on race morning. But the area just out from transition was mud so goopy that you'd sink in it and standing water on other parts of the trail and did I mention the 40 degrees and cloudy for race start? The race starts at just under 9000' which means the water is cold. 63 degrees or so which is not crazy horrible but still cold enough and add that to 40 degree air temp. and he would have been pulling people out of the water with panic and hypothermia. I think those conditions would cross my line and I might have skipped the swim. So I'm very happy to be racing this weekend where conditions look just about perfect. Some afternoon rain storms predicted for a few afternoons previous to get the trails nice and tacky and sunny with a high of 71 degrees for race day. Will still be cold for the swim (probably low 50's air temp. and colder water temp. than 2 weeks ago) but with the sun out it should be do-able. Then perfect conditions for the bike and run. I can't wait.
Except for the sluggish. Dragging my ass swimming at the Rez on Tuesday and this morning was even worse. But Jonny showed me an Interrupters video and now finally I've found a new theme song and hopefully some new found energy to go along with it. Add in 2 more days of rest, some cooler temps. and the beauty of the race venue in the mountains and I should be good to go.
Another contributing factor to the malaise could be that I'm still battling the wasps. I see these crazy people on YouTube with their various methods of wasp extermination and they seem like they've lost it, a bit touched in the head or something. But now I understand. It becomes an obsession. You think you've finally won and then you see they've found another way in or are building a nest around the corner or have learned to avoid your Shop Vac nozzle. Crafty little bastards. So far I've been through:
6 bottles of dish soap/water solution
5 wasp traps
2 sandbags
2 rolls of duct tape
2 tubes of caulk (about to buy tube #3)
2 ladders
1 plastic rain poncho
zillions of rags
1 Shop Vac
And still they persist. But I'm getting upper hand, definitely a lot less of them around and they're active for less hours of the day now that we have more darkness and cooler mornings. But still, this is what my house currently looks like:
I know, I'm like the other crazy internet people. But I will prevail.
In happier news my garden is doing well. Zucchini plant is going crazy. One in particular got way too big because I couldn't get in there to pick it due to wasps.
Big as a Chiwowow
Or maybe she's small as a zucchini.
She's doing great these days. Took her on another 20 min. run this week and she loved it. One more week and she's cleared for any and all activities including jumping. I think she likes her new home.
She looks gigantic in that picture somehow. Cameras are funny things, I wasn't trying to have an optical illusion.
Ah well, time to fret over my race gear and check out the wasp situation. Take Back the Power!
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