Ironman Head
September 2nd, 2010 Posted in Shanna's Blog Entries | No Comments »Ironman Head– i came up with a new term lately that i like. The term ironman head is given to someone who has done an ironman and all in the sudden thinks he or she is better then the rest. You can spot these guys a million miles away. They dont look at you when they ride by you on the bike and they only wear the ironman gear. Most likely they dont put butter on their bake potatoes nor eat any fat. They log every mile in the computer and have a graph of every workout from their heart rate monitor. all they thyink about and read is triathlon related but most of these guys really finish in the back. I feel like i can freely use this term sicne i was one myself.
Now i suppose i have ultraman head….wonder if that is worse? Perhaps ultraman head is one that only eats butter and does not ride or run unless they can talk to someone. They no longer log every mile or keep up with averages of bike rides. the heart rate monitor is in the trash they would not be seen wearing shorts that say what they just did…ironman or whatever. If that is an ultraman head then that is me. Boy i sure wish i wore my finish shirt when i was limping around in airports sometimes..i look pretty bad walking and would like for people to think i was racing rather then on my honey moon.
Biking- (Lost)- so this Tuesday I made a real dork out of myself. I showed up to ride with the big boys at Fort Worth cycles and fitness. I was afraid of getting dropped but sort of new my way home. i always hate riding with a group at first. i dont know what to do and dont want to piss anyone off. So we got started and it was kind of dark. We crossed through a parking lot over to a road that i did not get the name of. the rest of the roads i was taking notes on just in case i got seperated. We rode out of town and then hit a nice hill that broke the pack up. About 6 guys were off the front, i was in the middle, and the rest of the pack was behind me. I knew the pack would catch me so just made my workout a tempo workout and sort of worked the hills. I tried to keep the guys in front of me in sight. i think there was 3 guys in the front pack after a while and then some stragglers. I got to a light and one of the guys was waiting for the second pack to come by. I asked the guy if i needed to go left and I swear he said straight. I went through the light and down a hill. i kept looking pack in hopes of seeing the other guys but never saw them…nor could i see the guys ahead of me. All i could think is….what an idiot they must think i am. I had to keep going straight on the one way. I turned around and made my way back to the shop. i knew where i was for the most part i was not raelly lost. Theone road i made a mistake on was the first one. I spit out on to a reallybusy road at 8 am traffic. I did not know which way to go and was going to get run over if i spent much time on this road. I called a buddy to see if he knew which way i needed to go. After finding out when i crossed the road to go to the bike shop my phone fell out. There i was in on a median in traffic watching cars speed by my phone. i bet i was there 5 minutes at least. My phone did not get run over and i made it back to the shop. From what i could tell all the guys were back and gone again. i am not sure what they must think of me but i will be back next week to try again. Wasn’t the workout i had planned on. I bet i made a lasting impression.



















