One last glass

One last glass of wine

Although it has been a long 20 weeks of training, the 2+ years that has gone by since our first stab at a tri have flown by.  We started this trek as a way to get back into shape after quarter after quarter of sitting on our butts at Santa Clara B-school after spending the whole day sitting on our butts at work.  In the past two years we’ve been able to shed all the excess body weight accumulated in the 3 to 4 years it took us to wrap up an MBA while working full-time.

So on the eve of heading out to Texas, Vineman winner Dave Hopman and his Fiancée Leah hosted a wonderful pre-race dinner and we got a little glimpse into the advantage Dave has on us in terms of access to quality food.  It was sad to think about how many of these fantastic dinner’s Dave got to enjoy in the last 5 months.

Head of Household

The biggest highlight from Dinner was a mistaken confession from Dave during an innocent conversation about our race nutrition plans.  It appears that, during Dave’s Vineman T2, Leah gave Dave some Advil.  I’m going to leave it to Cox to do an analysis of what the implications of that act may or may not be.  Also our faithful blog readers should look forward to a guest post by the notorious illegal assister herself, Leah Neary on how happy she is that this is all over.  Next stop texas!