Pilates for two

LotStreetWiz and I were back at Pilates today in its new location. We missed last week because he was flying in from Vancouver and I wanted to meet him. I’d progress faster if I did the exercises every day and not just at class.

I also picked up the Spring 2008 schedule.

Not the Newport Beach triathlon

I looked into running (doing? playing?) the Newport Beach triathlon, which would be extremely convenient once I got to California. Setting aside that I’m woefully undertrained. It would just be an experiment and starts about a mile from the corporate apartment in Newport Beach and bikes past it. But the race was cancelled in 2006 because it was inconvenient for car owners and since then it has been rerouted. The bike course is now two loops of an out-and-back on a road that’s normally one way: it’s one lane plus a bike path.

One side has mud cliffs or swamps and the other side has an estuary. There are not guardrails the whole length. So riders dash through this narrow road, up a hill, then do a U-turn and go back down against the stream of people still going up. Half of them will be zig-zagging or wobbling and the other half will be zooming downhill. And then they’ll do it again. The fast people will lap the slow people. It’s tailor-made for bike crashes. I think I’ll skip it and aim for a mini-tri somewhere else, later in the season. It still sounds like fun.

This is just silly

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