You won’t be able to open any of your favorite blogs without seeing something about this weekend’s triathlon happenings. From death and jellyfish at the NYC Tri to the torrential downpours at IMLP, this was definitely a tri-weekend to remember in all of it’s glory, regret, elation and challenges. Here are a few things that I’ll throw up there that I thought about on my drive back to Westchester today, in no particular order:

• There really are tri-stalkers out there; keep this in mind before dating another triathlete that you may not spend the rest of your life with.
• You can drive from Albany all the way into Lake Placid with only 2nd and 4th gears.
• On race morning, I will wake up at 3:30am without an alarm.
• Quinoa porridge is best made in the dark while wearing headlamps.
• While wearing headlamps, etiquette suggests not looking directly at the person to whom you are talking, unless you want to blind them.
• Farrah or any of Farrah’s friends are not to be messed with unless you want to be publicly embarrassed in front of a national audience.
• It’s Bill, it’s wrapped in plastic; I’m not doing it.
• I’m not drunk, I used to be.
• Desiree Ficker got kicked out of a restaurant while Moonpie, CindyJo, Strouter, Rambonie and Guru were offered a round of drinks on the house.
• If you are going to flat with tubulars, do it in Jay in front of a house rented by eight triathlon coaches.
• Fix-a-flat for bike tires will get you about 4 more miles.
• Sherpas need sherpa stylists, given that while the athletes had two transitions and two special needs, the sherpas came back to the love shack four to five separate times.
• Laptops do not like to drink white wine.
• Mile 40 is a great place to begin puking on the bike.
• Jenwilltri must have been going crazy not being up in LP this weekend.
• Texting in the rain is a recipe for electronic failure.
• Apparently a floor in the men’s changing tent would have not been realistic enough, so mud wrestling was introduced as the fourth discipline in the sport.
• Rambo took over North America Sports and fired people during his volunteer post.
• You really can feel pouring rain while you are swimming, but only until you are kicked in the face.
• By the time you reach Ironman, you need to be able to a) swim in a straight line, and b) not have to breast stroke and c) not have to stand vertical to sight causing the swimmer behind your to swim up into your now raising heels.
• Phil never made it to the love shack, but we did leave the light on for him.
• Wearing a USC Trojan rain slicker attracts HACs.
• Many elite athletes leave their bikes in the transition area until the following morning.
• The Ironman cutoffs assume that you can swim the loop in two hours and do both loops of the bike in less than four hours each. Therefore, if you suck on the bike, you’d better get out of the water in under an hour.
• Bring two pairs of boxer shorts to an Ironman weekend.
• If there are tri-panties in the sleeves of my clean shirts, they are not mine.
• Javier, Rambonie, TriBoomer, Nathan, Kristine and the Goose all have vouchers for IM2009.
• Strouter, Jenwilltri, Michelle, ???, ???, ??? will all be looking at 2010 to make their Ironman debut.
• and lastly, peelers is just a glorified term for strippers and North America Sports could reduce the athlete fee by simply auctioning off the right to do this job. Why? Because Ironman weekend is like summer camp for adults. Maybe Race with Purpose should put together the first ever wetsuit peeler training class.

Well that’s about it for now. I’ll come back with more fun stuff. In the meanwhile check out the blogs from other members of our party in the right-hand navigator, except for Strouter’s because she’s still waiting for her laptop to dry out.