Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Wildflower Reflections

It was a wonderful Wildflower weekend. I have spent the last few days reflecting on the magic of Wildflower. It's such an incredible experience to be surrounded by thousands of healthy happy people all sharing a love of triathlon. Kindred spirits.

This year held the promise of being even better than usual. I'm not much of a blogger myself, but I LOVE to read yours (and yours, and yours....). And I was so looking forward to meeting as many of you as possible. The tri-blogger alliance. Race Athlete. Triscoopers.

The place is just huge, and I had no idea where anyone was camped, but I had faith that at some point in the weekend I had to run into someone. I kept my eyes peeled.

Saturday afternoon, long after I had finished my race, I looked up and was pretty sure I was seeing Kahuna taking off on his run. "KAHUNA?", I yelled, and sure enough he turned around to see who the hell had recognized him. "It's Mama B!", I yelled. (too funny) He smiled and gave me the thumbs up.

We headed back to our camp to drink some beer and cheer on the long course people. What a blast! I kept hoping to see more familiar faces. Then Robo-Stu ran by. "Robo-Stu?" Sure enough, he turned around. I jumped off our truck and ran with him for a minute. He gave me a hug (or perhaps I was the hugger) when I told him who I was. What a sweet guy. I found out from him where the gang was camping, but we were too tired after the triathlon, sun, and beer to journey that far. I was a bit bummed (I'd had visions of singing by the campfire) but tried not to let it get me down.

And Sunday still held promise.

Whew! And what a scorcher it was. We felt sorry for the oly racers dealing with such heat. We enjoyed the sun for a while watching the swim waves from the upper lawn. That was so awesome!

Eventually we were searching for shade and headed up to the bleachers by the finish line. We were sitting there for awhile without even noticing that Trimama, Tac Boy, Kahuna, Iron Jenny, Bolder, and SimplyStu were sitting right beside us! Too funny. It was a thrill for me to meet you all. You are like celebrities, well actually better than celebrities to me.

And I even got to see Iron Wil and FE-Lady cross the finish line. They were both looking great.

And we found ourselves heading up the hill with Bolder and Roman on our way out. That was really cool, as I got the update on all the one-on-one competition, and I got to drool over a BMC TT02 up close. Holy Crap! those are sweet looking bikes.

Race report to follow. I'm still working through it all in my head. In the meantime, it's good to be home again...


1 Comments:

Blogger SingletrackJenny (formerly known as IronJenny) said...

So great to meet you, too!!!!
Jenny

10:33 AM  

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