Muncie Endurathon weekend ++

This weekend was my annual Hajj to Muncie to work the Muncie Endurathon. It was a nice, short visit and I got to see several old friends, many that I see just once a year. I spent most of the day hanging w/ my buddy Zach who has pretty much relocated to FL, so it was cool to hang w/ him. I have worked as the Muncie Endurathon Mechanic for probably 8 years now and regardless of how many times I do it will never cease to amaze me that triathletes show up for a 1/2 Ironman event, which cost them ~$200, w/ their tires roughly half inflated. I would say 9+/10 people that come to me race morning ask "can you just check (or "top off") my tires?" and when I stick the pump on they have ~40-60psi in their tires which are rated to 120PSI. This will always blow my mind. I mean, one of the pillars of success in sport is being prepared; c'mon people.
(doing what? airing someones tires!)

Because the couple that used to host the post-Endurathon throw down par-tay moved from Muncie, there was nothing going on afterwords, so i came on home. 1) the Bloomington Crit was going on in the evening and 2) I was racing at Monrovia in the early a.m. Sunday.
Lindsay and I headed down to the crit and showed up in time watch the end of the 3/4 race, see all the women's race, then the 1/2/3race. While crit racing isn't my thing, it's fun to watch and especially when it's 5minutes from your house! It was nice evening, but I had a long day having gotten up ~4am to get out to the triathlon course by 5am, working all morning, then spectating the tri in the sun all day, driving home, the spectating crit racing in the sun all evening. By the time it was over (~9pm) I was tired and needed to eat. Plus I had to get up ~5:30am to get to the TT this a.m.
Given all this I kind of expected to go to the Monrovia 40k time trial and feel like crap. But to my surprise once I started warming up on the trainer, I felt pretty good. But I was sure it was a caffeine induced fluke and still expected a terrible race.
I got going and got settled in and actually felt really good. I would say I felt the best I've ever felt in a 40k. I was slightly off of my PR, which I set a few weeks ago, but I beat my best from last year by a few seconds. It was a good TT, in spite of only my second best time.
I got home, sat around, ate, sat around some more, mowed the yard and have been sitting around since then.
Lazy Sunday.
State Time Trial Championship this weekend.