Funny Tri Dream (1 week until NOLA 70.3)

It's been a while since I raced participated. My last race was in July last year shortly after which I stopped swimming due to shoulder soreness.  Anyway, I was looking for some crazy tri swim start videos (shoot me a link to your favorites please) on YouTube and remembered the excitement and energy you feel just walking around before triathlons.  I'm guessing this is what led to a frustrating dream which is now quite funny.  I don't remember (or didn't dream about the swim portion) and not much of the bike except coming in to T2 at which time I realized, oh no, I forgot to eat or drink on the bike!  That's right, ~4 hours in to the race with nothing.  I was surprised I hadn't bonked yet and knew I would soon, so at T2 I stuffed all the food I was supposed to eat into the pockets of my tri shorts,  and headed out on the run, for the first time.  I got about 10 steps outside T2, which was in a building???, and turned around to grab a water bottle then headed back out.  This time when I got to the door, I realized I was wearing a jacket and long sleeve shirt which was too hot for the run so I turned around and took them both off, I couldn't figure out where to shove them so I got in line at coat check (lol) but that was taking too long so I went back to my bike and handed them to my sister (what the heck is she doing in New Orleans?).  Then I turned around to to leave and realized I don't want to run with no shirt on and as I'm getting the shirt on realize I need my number belt which is buried in my tri bag.  Anyway, finally off to the run, now having blown any chance at a sub 6 hour HIM, and a couple hundred feet into the run I realize, I'm not wearing any shoes!  What the heck, now I'm getting angry.  I contemplate running the 13.1 miles barefoot and quickly realize that is a bad idea.  When I turned around, my sister is there laughing (that's what she was doing in my dream, big meany :-)).  I woke up as I was heading back to T2 to get my shoes.  Funny stuff.

As for training, this was a recovery/taper week according to my plan.  I didn't do the swimming because my shoulders are getting sore again like they did last July.  I may not swim until the day before the race.  Biking this week is 3 hours and I should get that in and running is a little under 2 hours and I should get that in as well.  Tapering feels a little weird, kind of like recovery weeks do.  I'm a little more tired and achy, specially at the start of my runs, but I feel much stronger at the end of my runs than I do during bigger volume weeks.  Hopefully that is normal.

I did finally get around to trying out my Saris Bones 3 bike rack my parents gave me last November to make sure it will fit for our trip next week.  It didn't fit exactly as the directions said, but with a little modification, it should work just fine. I put my bike on it and drove around a bit. 

I also went back to the doc and let her know about the race :-).  She said no problem!  We went over all my blood work, echo results and all that.  She said I am a little low on salt, so I should increase my intake a little.  I think I will take salt pills at NOLA.  It is going to be humid and I sweat a lot.

Time to start printing maps and making lists. I may take some pictures to go with the lists as James suggested to me.