Am I a triathlete?

I was contemplating this after a Saturday run with another triathlete.  We went for a nice run on some trails in Rock Creek Park.  She's super fast for an amateur and probably won't be an amateur for much longer.  After telling her that I've only done the Florida half and Ironman for triathlons, there was a pause.  She was probably thinking "POSER" but was too nice to say it out loud.  I think I'm just renting the "triathlete" moniker for awhile until I actually compete in more events.

I swear as I get older my brain doesn't work as well anymore.  Forgetting to lock the front door.  By itself this isn't too bad.  I mean sure with my frail fat slow body and nice looking mouth at any moment someone could barge in through my door and make me squeal like a pig.  My only hope is that those malfeasant don't like to walk up stairs as I'm on the 3rd floor.  So the main brain fart is walking up the door to leave noticing that you forgot to lock the door and then locking it.  How dumb is that!  Another thing I seem to do more often is making a trip out to the kitchen only to forget half of the stuff I want to get from the kitchen.  So I have to go make another trip.  I just zone out when I suppose to be doing something.  I think my brain is too full of useless information like all the key Arnold movie quotes.

I went for a swim today and it was sad as usual.  The funniest part was the weigh in after and the scale tipped out at 149.  Woohoo...that's 9 lbs in 3 weeks.  I think I'm going to cut back on the junk food.  I feel like a complete slob.  I did buy 4 more bags of chips this weekend at the store.  I had to because well I have no willpower now.  I went to the store to buy ingredients for a bbq side dish.  The condo residents decided to do a BBQ on Saturday night.  We had to bring sides.  I decided since I have tons of pasta so that equals pasta salad.  It was perfect and Elena helped me make it.  The barbecue was cool except I got eaten alive by mosquitoes. I even caught one in the act and smashed it just like Dexter except without being the serial killer vigilante whose long lost brother performs numerous serial killings to remind Dexter of his childhood.

I'm heading to Oregon for work on Wednesday.  I'll be there for 10 days so it will be fun to get some workouts with the old cycling and running gang.

The rest of the weekend was good.  The Raiders and Beavers won their football games.  It was hot as hell yesterday so the air conditioning was running pretty much all day.  My electricity bill is not going to be happy.  August's bill was cheap so being in Canada for 10 days helped that although I also got my credit card bill which had the trip on it and well OUCH!!  Stupid credit card company charged me $35 in service charges.  How lame is it when it costs money just to use the card in a foreign country.  The money is all digital anyway!!  WTF!!  It's not like Citibank has to rent a freighter and ship gold bouillon to Europe or drive it in an armored car across the Canadian border.

That's about all the ramblings I have.  The blog is suffering with my total disregard for any training program.