I have everything all packed and ready to go for tomorrow’s race. My legs are still sore from Thursday’s ride, but nothing really that I can do about that now. It should still be a fun one, though. The season opener always has me a little nervous. I’m especially dreading having to run after red-lining on the bike and swim. I’d rather go slow and long than go short and hard. It just flat out hurts less.

While I was getting my bike ready for tomorrow, I went to take off my cassette on my race wheels so that I could sell it on eBay or something. I previously bought two identical cassettes before I realized how easy it was to swap them out. Well, I guess it’s good that I have two. The one cassette on my training wheel will not go on the body of my race wheel. I can get the first eight cogs on, but the ninth cog just won’t slide on. Either the grooves on the cassette are maligned or the body on the race wheel is maligned. Both cassettes work on my training wheels, so I guess I’m leaning towards it being the body at this point. I’ll have to check with the LBS to find out for sure.

I also had a brain fart while trying to get my rear wheel dialed in. I couldn’t shift to my lowest cog while making adjustments, I noticed that my cable housing was frayed on that end. So I did some last minute bike maintenance and ended up having to adjust the limit screws on the back. After pulling my hair out for probably 30 minutes and not being able to get it fixed, it finally dawned on me that the “L” screw is for the largest cog and not the smallest one. I felt pretty dumb having spent all that time trying to make adjustments to the wrong screw. Oh well… It’s fixed now.

Alas, it’s time for bed. Hopefully I’ll be able to get some good sleep. I really haven’t slept very well all week. I’ll should have a race report for you all tomorrow. I say “should” because there are supposed to be scattered thunderstorms tomorrow. If they end up cancelling the swim, the idea of doing a duathlon or something similar doesn’t really appeal to me at all. I’d be tempted to just call the whole thing off if there is lightning in the sky in the morning. I don’t know… Maybe I’ll just race regardless. Hopefully the weather will be good in the morning and I won’t have to think about it.