I usually have one of two triathlon-related dreams:
Not being able to move my legs on the run. (sometimes there is a river or lake next to the road so I jump in and try swimming)
Grabbing my bike off the rack in T1 and it falling apart…as in the handle bars come right off and I’m holding them like an idiot.
But, now a new dream has entered the fray:
I purchase a nice new disc wheel and when it arrived, it was, (much to my surprise) made out of wood. And no, I don’t quite recall what its ride characteristics were or how much faster I was…
Do others have weird triathlon dreams? I can understand the first two, but why would I dream about a wooden disc wheel? No, I’m not Danish…
Those are quite interesting dreams. I personally don’t have dreams like that. Funny though, kuz I think about triathlon all the time, but I think it’s kuz I don’t race enough. The only dreams I have are of my all my teeth falling out looking like corn kernels in my hand, or forgetting to study for a terrible math test that i have no clue (and I haven’t been in college for 10 years)
Ive had this recurring dream every once in a while:
Im late for a race and as I get there I see that it just started. Im running around frantically trying to get into the transition area but it feels like Im running in jello. Everything is in slow motion and I cant move any faster.
I have quite a few Tri dreams, way more than my share.
I dream that I forgot to bring all my T2 stuff. I dream that it is race morning and I realize that my wave went off an hour ago. I dream that I just can’t get things together, like shoelaces missing, etc.
I have had 3 already this year for a race in Aug! Dang Blammit!
I have the dream where I’m running about a 36min mile and can’t get my legs to move. My wife tells me that I’ll start pounding the pillows and slapping my legs encouraging them one. Don’t know how it ends as the wife usually elbows me awake.
Gosh I have that same dream… Last week I was doing an IM and couldn’t find my transition stuff, ran to my car and was trying to find everything in my bag, nothing was there… I woke up so worn out!
One time at band camp I had this dream that I got selected to be the star of a Hollywood movie. After that life was easy! Celebrity entery to Kona each year, free stuff made mostly of carbon, and other rare and semi prescious metals were mine for the asking! Rarely trained but, yet I remained fit and tan year round and always had the energy of a weasel in heat. So I’m way off the front in Hawaii on the run and I’m high fivin’ and kissing babies as I run down the finishing chute and every beautiful island girl is waiting to put a lei around my neck, girls just waiting for me to father their children, look their way, a glance, any small crumb of attention…and then I wake up and I 'm still at band camp and late for rehersal.
i had a reall nightmare when i turned up to a race without my helmet. Normally I go through a check procedure before leaving home, but not this day.
had the embarrassment of the announcer asking over microphone if anyone had a spare helmet. Could feel all the people looking at me thinking ‘what a dickhead’, probably the way I look at people when they do something done like that.
My dreams always find me leading a particular race, only to veer off course? Never fails. I get to a point where everyone just laps me. This is of course my worst nightmare too.