Wow, it's been awhile since I said anything on here. Needless to say there has been a whirlwind of activity around these parts, yet not a whole lot to report.
Steelhead is in the bag of course. It went alright. They cancelled the swim and instead had a run a couple miles in its place. That was okay and probably shaved antoher 10 minutes off my time, but didn't help place wise (I usually come out of the water way ahead of the pack, not so much with running). But I had a pretty good bike and an okay run at the end (the 13.1 mile one).
I ended up not getting into the Alcratraz race (!!!) so instead, I'm going to volunteer at Chicago. So if you're running it, there's a good chance I'll be handing you water or yelling at you to slow down in transition (I seriously hate those fuckers).
Last weekend was a bunch of baseball games (well two). Friday night, Google got a skybox down at the Cell and we watched the White Sox beat the Red Sox. I didn't actually watch the game because when I'm in a skybox, my attention is largely devoted to cleaning out the bar as quickly and destructively as possible. Somehow I ended up at Genender's couch and then the next day, was up at Wrigley around noon with Travis to watch the Cards more or less kick the shit out of the Cubs. Good times again there.
Went to some Italian festival which was like a Guido Haircut Event Horizon to the tune of Sinatra. Fun times. The net result of which was I finally got around to getting back to running on Monday night and am slowly accepting the fact that "taking a post-race break" that becomes more than a couple weeks is basically giving up. I still have Big Shoulders around the corner and then this new Tri in Waterloo along with some other rides this year to go. This weekend some Party Patrol people and fellow teamates are riding to some party/bonfire in a south suburb. should be good times.
I have a book review to post very soon as well.