Practice Weekend

Halfway to Ironman is our practice weekend at Lake San Antonio, home to where the Wildflower Triathlon is held. I won't bore you with the details of the practice Tri itself, although we all did well on hot day and a tough course, the real story here is what happened after the event. This weekend is typically when the Ironteam bonds and friendships become very strong. But for our team this had already taken place, and the fact that we had an opportunity to do this made our team that much stronger.

Coach Mike gave a speech after dinner that started out about how well he thought we did, but then he went into how proud he was of us that we all seemed to really care for each other and were all so supportive of each other. Each Coach took their turn to echo the same sentiments and before you knew it, other participants we standing up to do the same. The coaches then busted out gifts for the team, among them were white dri-fit hats with IRONTEAM 08 on them. From that point forward the love-in turned into a rager that rivaled my days in Chico. The tunes started blaring, the booze and wine was flowing, drunk white people were dancing, and the poor tri team across the way(who kept us up the night before) was in for a long night themselves.