Parking Ticket

I got one this morning while I was working out. I'm such a dummy. I just forgot this strip of spots are "No Parking" from 7-9am. I just spaced out as they have meters but the meters don't start til 9am. I usually don't workout in the morning if I drop Elena off at school but this week is special because only 6 more days til the race. It's pouring rain here so I can't even read the ticket as it's one big soppy mess. It's not like there weren't free spaces available I just was tired. My vehicle still has my Oregon plate and tags. I'm planning on getting it registered in June since my insurance renews then but what a pain in the ass. I have to get this inspection thing and then go to the DMV and probably wait forever. I wonder if the "man" will be able to track me down on this parking ticket. I think in the blurry ticket writing it says its $50. Oh joy!

On to the fun stuff, I didn't get a chance to post about the my inaugural ride on the P2C on Friday night. It was nice. I had the bars way too high and adjusted the seat twice during the ride. The seat on this bike is a pain to adjust. It's an aero carbon post that I swear is wedged into the seat tube. No real easy way to do fine adjustments. Overall, the bike is super light and it's way more compliant with the road than my Trek. I was able to really zoom through my intervals. Of course it's been raining non-stop since the ride on Friday night. Fricking weather...it's suppose to be nice tomorrow which will be my last chance to really see if I'm going to ride the bike in the race. I'm going to put it on the trainer today and spin on it to see how my position is.

So I got the new bike or just go with my old bike dilemma plus my foot still has that weird pain. I looked at a couple of running injury books but nothing fits. I've been icing and I haven't run since Wednesday. I'll probably run 30 minutes off the bike tomorrow easy to see if it feels okay. I know I could really bust out a fast running time if I didn't have this soreness. It totally sucks.

The wave start times are up for the race. I'm either starting at 7:03, 7:06 or 7:09AM. Again, you can track me by name, bib #1854 or #1855 as I right now I have two bib numbers which I have straighten out at registration, or age group(35-39) at Ironman.com. I expect to swim around 40 minutes and then I'm hoping for a 2:45 bike time with a sub 1:30 run time which should all point to just under 5 hours for the whole event. So I'll hopefully be done before most of my West coast peeps wake up Sunday morning.

I fly to Orlando on Wednesday and will be hanging out with my buddy Orion for a couple days before staying at the Disney Wilderness Resort Friday, Saturday and race day.


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