A Sunday Update

I grew up near the TX coast. Angleton to be exact. Our place was about 20 miles from the Freeport, TX coast due South of Houston. The closest our house (which sat at about 32.5 feet above sea level) came to flooding was during a flood caused by torrential rains in North Texas that caused the Brazos River to swell out of it's banks. Thanks to the levee between our house and town we were almost flooded out. Several of my friends were not as lucky.

That's a long way of saying that we were fortunate enough to not be flooded by a hurricane. Hurricane Alicia knocked down a tree or two, but that was about it. Anyway you look at it a hurricane is nothing to 'sneeze' at. My grandfather and aunt are still down in the Houston area, but they came out pretty unscathed after Ike hit. It was weird watching the news seeing the places that I grew up near getting drilled by wind and rain. The few times that we went to Galveston, we always saw the Flagship Hotel. It was damaged pretty good.

Because Central Texas was supposed to get a lot of hurricane/tropical storm wind and rain, I changed my typical Saturday/Sunday plans like most Central Texans. I swam and ran on Saturday. Not a drop of rain fell on our house on Saturday. The wind blew, and by the time I started my run it was above 90 degrees. Not what I thought it would be.

I rode today with a friend. We did a loop...o.k. 2...of the Longhorn 70.3 course. I have the powerfiles that I will post in a day or two. It pretty much shows two ways to average the same wattage over a course and have a time difference of about 5-10 minutes. Basically, I went out hard and died on loop #2. It was a bit windier on loop #2 than the first one too. I will say about the Longhorn 70.3 course that it is not easy nor do you get much more than 5-8 miles on a single stretch of roads.

Posts to come...SRM vs. CompuTrainer file and a comparison of my 2 Longhorn 70.3 loops.