Suzy-Q - Completing a Minnesota Tri?

So last Wednesday I skipped out on team training. We were scheduled to meet and run 8-12 repetitions of a hill near a lock and damn on the Mississippi River. It was a fairly nice day - summer is waning and the air was cooler than it has been and the humidity was low. And I had intentions to meeting up with the team.

However, by day's end I decided that I'd completed at Minnesota Triathlon.

The first leg: By 7:45am I was on my bike and headed to the fairgrounds. At 8:03am I'd parked my bike, locked her up and made it through the entrance. Pretty uneventful, and not bad for time.

The second leg: I spent the next 11. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I said ELEVEN. Eleven hours walking around the fairgrounds, consuming mostly fried foods and dairy products. Three trips to the "All-you-can-drink-milk" booth, crab cakes, mini-donuts, a funnel cake, a Pronto Pup, and two boats of cheese curds later. So I'm likely no competition for Takeru Kobayashi, I'd say that 11 hours of walking and eating are formidable.

I did take the long way home on my bike. Not really to get more exercise, but because riding on Snelling Avenue seems like a death wish when there are so many motorists trying to make their way to the fair. The long way on a bike lane and through a city park just seems more sane.

The third leg: Calibrating my iPod. How many months are we into training now? I finally decided I'd calibrate my iPod in an effort to more accurately track my progress. Calibrating my iPod required me to run. I only ran about a mile.

My Minnesota tri - a bike ride, an all day eating affair at the Great Minnesota Get Together, and a run - took a mere 12 hours to complete. Thank goodness I expect Nike to take a fraction of that time.