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Comments: I'm a slow swimmer... there are so many things to think about when swimming in a race that I never seem to be able to focus on pulling, floating hips, etc. My swim times in the pool are sooo much faster than this! I was about 8-10th woman out of the water, glad I got it over with and it was time to pass some ladies on the bike!! What would you do differently?: I think I should have worn a wetsuit...  Transition 1
Comments: Finally got a quick T-time! I rehearsed this soooo many times in my head.  Bike
Comments: 16 mph winds! Passed about 5 girls on the bike within the first 3 miles then all I saw were guys - where were the other girls!! I knew I wasn't in first but had no idea where they were. Drank my magic juice on the bike and just kept hammering away. Legs were burning but to quote the guy from the Tour de France that I saw on TV last night: "When your make your whole body hurt, you know your good!" (hehe). I figured it's only a 3.1 mile run so burning on the bike is a-okay! What would you do differently?: It took me forever to clip in.. standing still at the mount line sucks! I was worried with all the sand that putting the shoes on the bike would be a bad idea - next time - shoes on bike! Transition 2
Comments: I forgot to take my feet out of my shoes while riding. It was a little chaotic right before the dismount (the guy in front of my tried to stop and turn into the run out area...) so I totally forgot. Still I managed to make this one quick to - no dilly-dallying! In, out no thinking required. No socks. I don't know where they did their splits for the T-times but it seemed off to me. My watch said I did the 5k in 23:14...  Run
Comments: Still no idea how many girls were in front of me but as I ran out of T2, a spectator said "You're in THIRD!!" I was like HOLY SH!!!T!!! Lets goooooo! So I just ran as fast as I could and prayed that I had put enough of a gap between me and the girls I passed back on the bike that they wouldn't catch me on the run. I got to cheer on a bunch of other BTers on the run course which was cool - they were encouraging too. I passed Skip and he told me to go catch Andy so I kept running as hard as I could. Got to about the 2.5 mile mark and saw Andy up ahead. As I came up behind him he said "Christy, is that you?? I'm going to kick your knees out", I said "you have to catch me first" (well no, I didn't really say that... that was too many words and I had no extra oxygen; I was DIEING!!!) I looked behind me - no girls in sight but I didn't want any surprises at the end so I kicked it out like I had someone right there hunting me down. I crossed the finish line - did I really just get 3rd place OVERALL!! I was stoked! I don't know if the 23:54 or the 23:14 was my actual 5k time but either way it was a PR over the 24:05 I did last weekend. I think I need to treat those local races like the last leg of a triathlon and maybe I'll run a little faster - or just save the PRs for the triathlons like I seem to always do... Post race
Warm down: Hung out with the BTers and some ATC folks. Packed up my stuff, drank looooots of water. Had the most awesome moment when they announced my name for 3rd place Overall Female and all the BTers started yelling and cheering :) I felt like a rockstar :) Event comments: The volunteers at the race were not very well instructed on what to do... they didn't point out the turns until you were at the turn (which when going 21+ mph on a bike, you need some warning!), the little girl I tried to grab the water from had no idea how to hold the cup and I couldn't grab it.. no biggie since I was just going to pour it on my head but it could have been very bad. It was an inaugural race so I attribute all my complaints w/the volunteers and such to that. Last updated: 2009-06-26 12:00 AM
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Bricks Multisport
73F / 23C
Overall Rank = 28/125
Age Group = Overall Female
Age Group Rank = 3/45
Woke @ 4:30 after not sleeping well at all (pre-race jitters ;)). Had a little cereal w/soy milk, a piece of toast w/honey, and a little coffee. Off to Smyrna, DE. Banana @ 6:30 and a gu right before the race.
Found all my BT friends and stood around and talked about the race :) Secretly scoped out all the women to see what my chances were to get an overall award ;) Oh, and a quick 5 minute swim to try and get that initial 200m of swimming where I feel like I can't breathe out of my system - since this was only a 400m swim!!