I was going to be good but i ended up going out tonight and now i’m drunk and I have to get up in 3 hours to run a half with a friend. this sucks
two words…Red Bull…get started, time’sa wasting (and so are you apparently;-).
It’s 3:15 AM and I drank a large coffee last night and can’t sleep.
Enjoy your run!
AAAHHHH Youth!!!
I’ll bet my left arm you’re under 25 years old!!!
I’ll be impressed when you can do that at the age of 35. : )
I actually survived a half IM (Racine) after two nights of celebration and less than 1 hour of sleep. I actually went to the race straight from my niece’s wedding reception and still managed to somehow get third in my AG. Embarrassingly, I admit that I’m 41. So, it can be done!
-jeff
“I actually went to the race straight from my niece’s wedding reception and still managed to somehow get third in my AG”
I’m assuming the race started sometime around 7:00 A.M. which means you were up all night. You people make me SICK!!! I sleep 9 hours, eat some kind of crap like oatmeal for breakfast, don’t drink a drop of alcohol weeks before a race, and still can’t crack the top half of my age group!!!
Maybe next time I’ll show up with a hangover.
I’ve only done something like this once. Went to a wedding with an open bar the night before a 10 kms running race. It was the “longest” run of my life the next day. Never again.
I didn’t say it was pleasant. Nor do I recommend it for anyone else. Still, us old guys have learned that we can move just as quick as the younger bucks … we just can’t do it as often. I think the dancing all night served well for a warm up. The scary part is that I was able to shave 8 minutes off my swim and 10 minutes off my bike from the prior year. I’d rather not discuss the run. So, now I must confront the obvious and decide whether to include weddings and dancing as part of my pre-race rituals or just make them a regular part of my cross training regimine. Hmm?
-jeff
oh, this was the OUC 1/2, not a tri half (i maybe should have mentioned that). So my alarm didnt go off and I got dressed and ready in 5 minutes. and i finished. the first 10 miles were actually great. Then I took a crap and pretty much couldnt move after that. Jogged it in at like a 9:20 pace since i figured either way, I had to get back to my car. I would not reccomend doing long races without breakfast…
oh, and you won your bet. I’ll be 20 on tuesday.
I thought the drinking age in the US was 21… 
And has anyone ever actually followed that law excpet for maybe religious reasons?
Don’t ask me, I’m not over there 
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Tom–I’m with you brother. I say we sign up for some race together and go on a two week binge beforehand and show up drunk and high on weed. Maybe a few valium to help with the nerves on the swim. And Screwdrivers in our drink bottles on the bike.
now wait. The weed and valium would most likely take a good edge off the race. Possibly the screwdrivers as well. That would be a great advantage over my sorry self.
I have no idea what you look like, but somehow, the thought of a drunk girl, hair a mess, leaning way in to talk to me, all touch-feely, falling out of her top, dress obliviously hiked up, legs…well, you get the picture–is very intoxicating on its own.
She’s on the post your pic thread… I just went to take another look, the first time I saw it I thought it was illegal to look at it… Now I know she’s 20, LOL
hey now, let’s not be obscene!
Well I have a law partner that went to Rollins. Perhaps I should say “sent” to Rollins. He explained to me that he was sent there because he was out of control and a “bad” boy. So I just assumed that you were “bad” too. My apologies if you are, in fact, a good drunk girl.