Re: triathlon report

[Guest guest]

OUCH... those are days which nightmares are made of. Best thing to think of

is we only have one of THOSE days about once every 10 years - so you've had

YOURS for a while!

Sending a hug... we've all been there! So you will do even more awesome on

the Triathlon you are signed up for in August!

hugs,

Sue

triathlon report

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> So I am reporting on my triathlon that was Sunday. I ended up NOT

competing and I am totally bummed out about it. The tri was 3+ hours away

from me so we left on Saturday afternoon. I got to the race location and

found the beach where we were starting the race and looked over everything

before going to the hotel. I had made hotel reservations but I didn't

reserve them with a credit card. When I got to the hotel, it was after 6pm

and they had given my room away because it was after 6pm. The front desk

person then told me that there was not another hotel room available in the

entire county because she had been calling around for the last hour for

other would-be guests.

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> At this point, I was thinking, okay well I am just going to have to get up

and drive a bit in the morning. My boyfriend and I started driving down the

highway and we stopped at every exit for 15 straight exits and there was not

one hotel room available. My boyfriend then suggested that I may not be in

the triathlon after all, and I bit his head off. We ended up driving for

over 100 miles and there was NOT ONE SINGLE HOTEL ROOM. I noticed on the

back of my road atlas the 1-800 numbers for six different hotel chains and I

called all of them. No one had a room. No one.

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> We kept driving and we never did find a hotel room. From Ashtabula, Ohio

to Columbus, Ohio there was not one hotel room available. I know because we

ended up driving all the way back home. I got home at 3:00 a.m. and it just

absolutely sucked.

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> I made it worse by spending all day yesterday pouting and eating and

avoiding all the phone calls of the people who were wishing me well. I

found out that I have a lot of friends and that is nice but I didn't want to

talk to ANYONE yesterday.

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> I feel a little better about it today. There is another triathlon that I

am registered for on August 8th so it isn't the end of the world. I am not

being so fatalistic today. But overall, it felt like I quit even though

technically I didn't quit. It was a weird circumstance. But since I was so

nervous before the event, and seeing the water totally freaked me out. So I

wasn't excited and pumped about it, I was more scared. And since that was

the last feeling I had about it, it feels like I chickened out. I thought

of all these lies I could tell... yes I did it, no I didn't do it because it

was cancelled, anything other than I didn't reserve my hotel room with a

credit card and I didn't have a place to stay. That is just so dumb.

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