Downhill from here

Nothing else can make a person more nervous, anxious, excited and scared at once than an email saying the athlete guide is available and race numbers will be assigned soon. I was rushed with all of these emotions when I got that email last week. What I think was funny was I had the guide all printed off before I got the email. What are the chances that within the 30 seconds of posting it and emailing saying it was ready, I checked the website. I think that is a little more obsessive than anything. Hey, what can I say, I am excited. Also in that email was a note saying, if you know you are not participating, let us know so we won't give you a number. My last chance to back out. Nope. I am ready. I just finished up my last build week. I basically have 3 long workouts left. Tonight, tomorrow and Saturday. 20 days left. I finished up this weekend with a 15 mile run Saturday and a 30 min bike on the trainer. It was a great day to "practice" in Kentucky heat. I need to make sure I keep myself cool. Sunday I had a very interesting bike. I started out about 9, biked for an hour when a line of storms had come up on the West. I was about 10 min from Ankeny so I decided to turn back and wait it out at the park there. By the time I had thought that and turned around, it had started raining. I got back to Ankeny and the rain stopped. I checked the weather on my phone and there was another line coming through so I decided to head home and get the rest of my nutrition and head back out. I figured it will be gone by then. I got home, got my gels and headed back up to Ankeny. As I got in Ankeny, it started thundering and lightening so I stopped at the park and waited it out under a shelter. After 10 min it had stopped. There was Another line of storms coming so I thought I could make it up to Big Creek before they arrived. I was wrong. I got 10 min North of Ankeny when the torrential down pour started. It was actually refreshing. I was more concerned about my phone getting wet than anything. It was nice. I made it to Big Creek just in time for it to stop raining. I took sometime to dry out my stuff and packed the bike back up. It started lightening again so I waited about another 5 min. It never stopped raining so I started to head back home. I got 5 min from Big Creek when it started pouring again. I would have kept going, but I was riding directly into the wind and it hurt so I turned back to wait it out at Big Creek. I dried my stuff out again and spent another 30 min there waiting for the storm to clear. It was still thundering out, but I was freezing cold and drenched that I just said screw it and headed home. I got half way home when the sun came out and got sooooooooo hot. I really enjoyed the ride. I just wish it would have been a little less windy when the storms were coming up. That made it dicey. I have started my list of things I need to take. It is no longer a list, but now a book. It is very long and I don't even have non-race stuff on there yet, lol. This is the last week my pool is open so I will need to find another one to swim at next week. Probably have to go to the downtown Y. Hours in the next 3 weeks have dropped off significantly from what I have been doing. I won't know what to do with myself. Maybe I will get some stuff done around the house or maybe turn on that black screen thing in my living room that has pictures on it. It has been a long time.