Bart came over to party...

I was a mess I was today. I ended up having 22 beers last night. I know, because I keep the bottle caps. All I could think of was doing my 4.5 hour long bike ride this afternoon. The Hawaii Ironman was on TV and I wanted to coincide the end of my ride with the end of the program. It didn't workout out. I wasn't able to wake up and get on the bike until after 3 pm. I was hurting.

I did get on the bike and at first didn't feel too bad. It wasn't until later that I realized I had a delayed hangover coming on. I checked the tweets from last night and realized "Bad Bart" came out. "Bad Bart" is my alter ego who, on very few occasions, comes out to play when I've had too much to drink. It looked like Bart was his aggressive self and tweeting a lot of "F" bombs and getting mad at the world. Not good. One tweet this morning said I'm the dark side of twitter, another said I need to re-evaluate where I'm going and a third asked me if I felt good about "verbally abusing" a girl. As I read and deleted them I was laughing and saying "Bad Bart, Bad Bart".

I don't really care. It was the #tweetxmas party and at every Christmas party someone has too much to drink and makes a fool of themselves. My drinking rule has been that nothing counts when someone is drunk, whether it's me or others. Heck, the person's drunk, they're not really in control of themselves. It's also a great way to find out who your true friends are, they're the ones that forgive and forget. Alice went to bed at 3:30 am and I stayed up until 5:30 am. She couldn't drag me to bed, which is a bummer because nothing good happens after 2:00 am. All in all, I had fun. And for any of those people that are "superior" and "wound up" too tight, not realizing I was being a stupid drunk. To bad. Get over it. Sa la Vie.

Enough about the party, I met Alyssa's new boyfriend last night. I didn't know what to expect because he is older than her by 10 years. Regardless, I wasn't too concerned because Alyssa's a young adult and very level headed and responsible. After meeting him I was pleasantly surprised. He seems like a very nice and sincere guy who looks much younger than his age. He's working a day job while trying to be a model and or actor. I couldn't remember exactly, I was a little hazy. He had one good story he told me, similar to the movie "Road Trip". I told him it was good enough to be a movie. I'm looking forward to meeting him again when I haven't had a lot of beers.

My ride was scheduled for 4.5 hours and time went incredibly slow. At the 2.5 hour mark it felt like the 5 hour mark of last weeks ride and I started to feel really sick. The hangover was starting. I had to get off the bike. I pushed it just to get to that point and watching that last minute count down felt like it took 5 minutes. I've never had time on the bike go so slow. Even getting on the bike was tough. For the first 5 minutes I was like "what am I doing, all those beers is sabotaging my training. The plan was to drink only 10. What happened? Now I'm paying for it. Suck it up. Suck it up".

I got off the bike at the perfect time. I was major ill. I had a quick slower to warm up. The only problem about riding indoors is you get soaked in sweat from head to toe. That's the only thing I don't like about riding indoors. After the shower I felt the hangover bonk coming on and my body was craving greasy food. Even though it's not part of my diet plan I went to a greasy burger joint and picked up a burger, onion rings, fries and gravy. It hit the spot.

My plan was to eat, then sleep for a couple of hours and then get up and complete the remaining 2 hours of my ride. After a two hour sleep I felt no better. Then I figured that I'll finish it Sunday, depending how I feel after my long run or swap it with Monday's session. Or just leaving it at 2.5 hours, after all it's early in the training and those missed 2 hours aren't critical. Either way, I'll know what I'm going to do once I see how I feel after tomorrows long run.

Long Bike - 2:30:08 / 74.09 km / 29.6 kph / 125 avg hr

4/10