CVA Tri Club: Run/Eat Wieners/Clean Bikes

Last night, just 20 minutes after my "Runners Squirts" that I mentioned in my last post, a group of students came over for a workout. We're still shooting for a sprint distance triathlon in about 7 weeks!! Here's the group ready to run 3 miles:

From L to R: Brice, Jennifer, Sarah, me, Melissa,
Ben, Cynthia, Jamie, Hannah, and Rachel

We started out, and they were WAY TOO ENTHUSIASTIC after a few blocks:

Brice was "striding it out" a little too early in the run:

Jamie and Ben led the group out. Check out Jamie's sweet back tats that you can see through his shirt (they are big squares with a design in them over his shoulder blades):

Here's everyone else running down the hill by St. Thomas. Hannah is getting ready to pick her nose for the camera:

Hannah = Gross

They hit the turn-around 1.5 miles away, and headed back towards home. I didn't go all the way out with them. Yes, I DID inform them all about what happened in my bathroom just before they arrived, and I didn't want to re-aggravate anything. (Again, see my previous post if you don't know what I'm talking about...)

Here's Ben and Cynthia working their way back up the St. Thomas hill, about a half mile from being done:

Again, still WAY TOO MUCH ENTHUSIASM for the end of a hard run:

Everyone successfully finished 3 miles!! Then, we sat down to eat some grilled wieners.

In the house, watching "Wipeout" on ABC


In the backyard


On the back steps

After that, we cleaned bikes! About half the group brought their bikes along, so we degreased the chain and cassette, dug any grime out of the cassette, wiped down the chain, and re-lubed everything. I didn't take any photos of this because my hands were always covered in degreaser. When we got done, there were still a few students hanging out in the driveway:

(Notice: that's usually my bike cleaning setup. I put the bike against a 6 foot ladder, and the pedals have enough room to be spun backwards to use the chain cleaner. I can also blast our bikes with a hose if they are really dirty. You can see the big degreaser stain under Rachel's bike against the ladder that accumulated after degreasing 6-7 bikes.)

Rachel's bike was one of the older ones. And the chain needed a LOT of love! It was covered in rust and gravel. Here it is after a few minutes of degreasing, wiping down, and re-lubing:

Back in tip-top shape!

It was a good workout, good grub, and good know-how for these triathletes-in-training!

Today, I'm still taking it a little easy because of my "liquid poo" incident after my workout yesterday, so I didn't swim. I think I'll do a long swim tomorrow, a hard brick on Saturday, and maybe an open water swim with Julia and the gang early Sunday morning. Then, an oly tri next weekend!! Happy training everyone!!