uh-oh.

Somehow I've gone from, "oh, is Ridge to River this Saturday? Isn't that interesting." to, "um...I'm racing." Really it's all Mike Hansen's fault from Biosports since I asked him if Biosports wanted to sponsor me in R2R and he straightaway registered me for the race. So now I'm frantically trying to pull my sports knowledge together and get ready for the race.

R2R is a multisport event most often done as a relay team, I'm doing it solo. So it's a cross country ski at the top of Mission Ridge, then alpine ski to the base, then downhill road run, then road bike, then paddle. All in all it takes about 3 hours. Unfortunately, the only thing I'm really good at is the xc ski, and, aside from the alpine leg, that's the shortest leg. And it's first, and I prefer to leave my strengths to finish with. Instead the paddle is last and they made it even longer this year so it will probably be about 1.5hrs in the water. This is troublesome since I haven't really paddled for about two year since I wasn't in Wenatchee to paddle last summer. So today I'm taking my (borrowed) surf ski down the Wenatchee to check out the technical part of the river. It's cold today and I know that it wouldn't take much of a lack of attention/judgement to get me dumped into the river, so wish me a dry trip. Who am I kidding? In a surf ski, I'll get soaked from the waves, so let's just hope I stay on top of the boat.