Alternately, it can be really fun to have him cheering you on at the sidelines, driving you to/from the race, making sure you don't forget anything, giving you a nice post-race massage and generally pampering you because you did such a hard thing! (it doesn't hurt when you get to occasionally feel a bit more hardcore than your partner)

I've been trying to talk The Boy into not doing a race that I'm in just so I get the pampering lol

K.