One thing that I have always enjoyed, besides a frosty cold beer, is a frosty cold beer after a road race. I am not sure how this little trend started but it seems that a fair number of road races I have participated in have included beer at the finish line. Not that I object of course but it seems that a little alcohol might be the worst thing to consume after sweating out every fluid in your body. As a rule I don’t replenish my fluids with a diuretic and I don’t start hitting the bottle before 10am, but when it is hot and the beer is cold, all of those hard and fast rules get chucked out the window. I know it is going to hurt, but it is going to hurt so good.
This brings me to a timely topic since we are rolling into a Memorial Day weekend. There are always a lot of opportunities to do a little drinking on this weekend and I plan on doing a little myself. I have not been a big drinker since college but drinking has been even less frequent since I raised the intensity on my tri training a couple of months ago. The decision to cut back was not really a decision at all so much as I am just too tired most of the time to have even a couple of drinks. Having seen hard core road bikers knock’em back after a hard ride, and all of the alcohol floating around after road races, I wonder why I haven’t seen as much of that after triathlons. I don’t work out with any other triathletes and mostly don’t know a lot of people I see at triathlons. This begs the question; are triathletes, in general, drinkers that do triathlons or are they health freaks that hardly touch the booze?
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