Weigh-in - 6/13/08, and some race foolishness

Hey--it wasn't a fluke! I'm at 184.5 today. This is a bit of a landmark, because my weight loss for 2008 has finally hit double digits. Rock on! I was kind of worried about stepping on the scale this morning, too, since I had been in the upper 180s most of the week. Stupid triathlon. :) But it all got sorted out by Friday, I guess, so no harm/no foul.

Speaking of the triathlon, what damn-fool thing am I going to try next, eh? The answer is that I've kind of run out of damn-fool athletic things to do over here. Or, at least, I've run out of new ones. So that's why, next weekend, I'm going back to humiliating myself in ways that I've already tried.

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Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I am sticking with what I know. Next Saturday, I will be heading back to Austin to participate in another crit. Or at least, I think I will. I haven't actually signed up yet, since I don't need to decide for real until Tuesday. I'm waiting to see what the field size turns out to be before I commit. Right now, there's 5 girls signed up for the open race, and I like that field size just fine. Plus, all the pros and superfast amateurs will be participating in the big P12 women's race later on in the afternoon, so the open race will be mostly cat 3s and 4s. That's not to say that they'll be slow or anything, but at least I have a chance at keeping up for more than 35 seconds. If the field size jumps up over 30 by Tuesday, though, I might decide to take a pass. We'll see. My luck, everyone else is doing the same thing I am, and I'll sign up right at the same time as 60 others. So my small-field hopes will be dashed, but I'll still be out $40 with no chance of getting out of it without a DNS.

So, you might be asking yourself...given my, um, lackluster performance in last month's local crits, why on earth would I be considering this nonsense again so soon, and traveling to it besides? A couple reasons. One, the pro races for this event are kind of a big deal. National/international teams represented for both genders, the chance to see some pretty big names in cycling show us how its done. So I kinda wanted to go watch it anyway, and racing will help kill the afternoon before the main event.

And secondly, the Urban Assault Ride is the next day, and I finally wheedled McSpeedy into teaming up with me. I'm kind of excited...I've never done this event with someone faster than me. I think this might be the year I finally finish the thing with ALL our checkpoint beads. Fingers crossed.

So, these are my plans for next weekend. This weekend, on the other hand, is the first one in a while when I don't have anything going on. Not a single elsewhere to be. I plan to ride the beginner ride, do the Sunday shop ride, and then sit around the house and do nothing the rest of the time. Well, besides laundry. And Father's Day stuff. But other than that, nothing! Woo! :)