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It was a brief ride, and I had to chase this machine down the whole time.
Chasing @LaurnSmith all over the place this evening. pic.twitter.com/acwse998ZL
— Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) May 9, 2019
“I look like I know what I’m doing in that one,” she says. But she doesn’t have to chase herself — just go with it — and she always looks pro.
Eight days after an Ironman and she’s back at it once again. We’re pretty incredible like that around here. It was a lovely day for it, too.
Stick around, flowering things; you’re too lovely to leave.
At the Hermann Memorial North American Championship in Texas The Yankee completed her second Ironman on Saturday. That’s a 2.4-mile swim and a 112-mile bike ride, followed by a marathon. Louisville in 2017, and Texas this week makes her a two-time Ironman!
Here are a few highlights of her day:
It was warm. Hot, even. A bit more so than forecast, and the sun was beating down something fierce, even for Texas. The woman who on the professional side said, in her post-race interview, that it was the hardest course she’d ever been on. And we saw it all unfold, while my best girl did it all, again.
I did get some miles in, as it turned out. My phone recorded 10 miles of me hoofing it around the course, and a fair amount of that was running. I’m not even supposed to be doing any distance right now.
You can see more details under this hashtag.
A 12-hour day ended with a 90-minute television business meeting, but it started with this television interview.
It was a long day, but there will be a longer one tomorrow.
This is a video about Saturday’s bike ride, the first one of the year. (I certainly was going slow enough to make one…)
Keeping my Game of Thrones Shakespeare theme alive …
"Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red." #GoTbinge pic.twitter.com/mQDXDvm88b
— Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) March 24, 2019
"He that shall live this day, and see old age, will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, and say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian.' Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, and say 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day.'" #GoTbinge pic.twitter.com/uX8Q7vTZGw
— Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) March 25, 2019
I probably can’t do much better than that.
These first two videos are some my students made. These are their first shows of the new semester; they’re getting back into the flow of things with some new crew who are coming up to speed quite rapidly. First, Hoosier News Source, a news show:
Then they produced What’s Up Weekly, which is a happenings and pop culture kind of show.
Here’s one I enjoyed today: Why it’s almost impossible to ride a bike 60 kilometers in one hour. It explains some of the effort and tech and physiology behind the fabled One Hour record:
You or I? We would not break that record. We wouldn’t even flirt with frightening it that we might fracture it.
