Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Race Day Acclimating

Know what I've been up to?  Riding and running in sweltering heat.  Which I hate.  Buuuuttt, I have a race in July.  Stupid.  I hate summer a lot, and typically try to schedule my races in the spring and fall. Triathlons, it seems, take place mostly in the summer.  I guess because of the swim part.  Unless you're swimming in Lake Michigan, where it is approximately 3 degrees above freezing.  So, at the end of all my showers from now until July 18th, I am spending about 5 minutes standing in water as cold as I can make it.  It takes my breath away.  I am hoping this will help make the water in Racine slightly less terrifying and cold feeling.  We'll see.  I only have to be in it for, best case scenario, 45 minutes or so.  I don't think I can reasonably spend that much time a day standing in an ice cold shower, so 5-10 minutes is going to have to do.


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