National Tour

The trip out to the USA Triathlon National Championship was quite an experience (a stressful one). Due to bad weather all along the east coast my original flight was cancelled. This resulted in my journey to Oregon taking 2 ½ days as I went to a total of 6 airports. I did finally arrive in Oregon the day before the race, but my luggage did not arrive until late that afternoon. This did not give me much time to assemble my bike, check-in to the race, check-in my bike and view the race course. Not to mention that I needed to eat regular meals so that I could have good nutrition going into the race. Thankfully I did not have any problems with my UC. That would have made for a much worse experience given that I spent 2 nights in airports without any luggage.

On the bright side, my trip to the National Championship included a national tour. In the course of a few days I flew over the New York skyline and saw the Statue of Liberty, flew over Washing DC and the many national monuments, flew over the Great Salt Lake and salt flats, and saw the sunset in the rocky mountains. The trip was capped off with a good view of firework shows in New England. It actually, despite the circumstances, was a great national tour.