Training in Coorg India

Elephants may be the better tranportation method here. Wonder if there will be an elephant riding portion to triathlons anytime soon?

I couldn't do any cycling in India - the bikes for rent don't have aerobars!

April 5 - 7: Took a nice long weekend trip to Coorg, about 5 hoursfrom Bangalore, India. I finally got some sleep and my luggage arrived anhour before we left, so I got some short runs in. The place we stayed,Orange County resort,(http://www.nivalink.com/orangecounty/index.html) is a gorgeouscoffee plantation. There was a jogging trail; around the resort andI enjoyed my run as I ran through a dense tropical forest, sawparakeets, coffee plants, pepper plants and beautiful tropical flowers.I took a side road one morning, and got about ½ mile down the roadbefore I turned around. It appeared that I was on a local road andthe people walking to work who I passed gawked at me and onegroup of kids giggled as I ran by; I assume either my Colorado tan(i.e extremely pale) amazed them or the unusual nature of a whitewoman running in public exposing her legs startled them (I've yet to see a woman in India were shorts, or even a long skirt, in public).

Missed flights, delays, lost luggage, not staying at the Leela Palace (which has a nice gym and pool), 36 hours of no sleep, jet lag; the training plan is quickly becoming just a spreadsheet on my computer rather than something I am actually doing!

Off to India

April Fools! Off to India for 2 weeks; not sure how I will get decent training in. The most I can do is run on a treadmill at the hotel as the steets can be a bit crowded!