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Sunday, September 30, 2007

How was your September?

The numbers:Swim + Bike 27/24 =112%. OCTOBER: Changed to % adherence to The Schedule, an arcane document based around running and riding three times a week each, but not on consecutive days, and the unavailability of Tuesday and Friday evenings and Saturdays after 10.00am. Whoever wrote that scheduling is the fifth discipline of triathlon (after swim ride run, nutrition and stretching. Fine, the sixth discipline. Whatever. Who cares? Give it a rest will you? Crikey) was bang on the money.
Physio 26/28 = 92%. Core 16/16 = 100% OCTOBER: Keep on keeping on.
AFD's 13/16 = 80%. OCTOBER: I should be aiming for more than 4 days a week, but too much failure too soon is my fast lane to 'who the f#$% cares, I give up' town.
H20 27/28 = 96%. OCTOBER: I'm keeping this on the list because sometimes I only drink the last couple so I can cross off the box.
Thesis 18/16 = 112%. OCTOBER: Changed to 10 hours/week which will be HARD. I watch too much TV anyway.
Weight +100g. WTF???? Measurements = LET'S NOT GO THERE. OCTOBER: The Spousal Unit has been appointed official measurer since either I stuffed it up last time or despite exercising twice a day and TBUSing like a loon my dimensions are expanding (nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!). And don't feed me any of your 'muscle weighs more than fat' or 'it's tone that's important' faff cos I AM SULKING.
My chart is all about living my priorities, so I added a column headed 'FRIENDS'. Now emailing or ringing my three dearest friends will no longer be reliant on my scatterbrain.

I am strangely attracted by the idea of signing up for a triathlon series this summer - Chez LBTEPA is the home of gluttons-for-punishment-r-us (training? what training?) - but it's pretty expensive and I'd probably better talk to my physio first.
Also *WARNING* RANT ALERT!* the organisers have annoyed me.
1. They are not offering an Athena (women over 70kg) category because there is not enough demand for it
2. There is no minimum number required to run a category
3. They offer a (MALE ONLY) Clydesdale category
4. They might offer Athena next year if there is enough demand
5. Demand is measured by surveying this year's participants about the event but, if it's the same questionnaire as last year, not actually asking them if they want an Athena category.
6. Anyway the categories for this year have been set *subtext: GO AWAY*
Most people here wouldn't know what Athena is because they've never heard of it cause the biggest series in Australia, boasting about all the newbies it's attracted to the sport, doesn't offer it!
Is it just me or has there been no logic wasted on their thinking?

How has your month been?

More anon, whatever the collective noun is for obsessive-crossers-off-of-charts!

10 much-appreciated comments:

Sue said...

Just off to work my month out now...

MorseyRuns said...

Please tell me that there are more than a few 70+kg women out there doing these events??? I did the Gatorade series a few years (kilos) ago and found it great fun.

Nancy Toby said...

Clydesdale but no Athena division? Now THAT would piss me off mightily.

Kathy said...

I'm getting a tri education without having to leave my comfy chair. I didn't even know there was such a thing as an Athena category. Where do I sign up?

I'm thinking of doing a baby tri next year, but I have this definite feeling that it will be my one and only tri. I guess I won't know until I "tri" it.

Lisa - Slow & Steady said...

Clydesdale but no Athena? That just doesn't make sense.

I want a slow-n-steady division (last place wins 1st in that division...and so on to third to last). I think I'm going to start a petition!! LOL. No seriously.

LBTEPA said...

I am utterly ropeable - more about their complete lack of logic than their decision. I just got off the phone after a conversation with the organisers where I was told AGAIN that a) there is no minimum number required to run a category and b)there isn't sufficient demand!! (IS it just me who finds that wrong?)

Jessie said...

Lisa, I'll join the petition!!!
No, seriously I know I stand no chance against girls my age who are half my size, so bring on the Athena's!!!

Happy Labour Day all you non-New South Welshmen :)
Hope October goes swimmingly for everyone (or bikingly/runningly too for those training for triathlons)

JEssie

Jadey 0:-) said...

September was long and annoying. I'm enjoying October so far :)

Benson said...

Good on ya for those great numbers. Piss on the measuments.

Those orgainizers are DORKS!

Nice to hear you're gunning for a long bike ride. That's the spirit.

Wes said...

Nice chart :-) I can't believe they aren't offering an Athena. Australia is like a tri-mecca... They should be on the cutting edge of everything tri...

I was wondering if your had forgotten about me ;-) Now that I'm on your chart I expect a phone call once a week.... LOL.