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Comments: Keep in mind, until I rounded the last turn around buoy and saw the white caps enveloping me I thought I was pretty much still with my gals so to me this swim felt damned good! LOL! Being that I breathe to the right when I turned and saw all the 25-29s coming at me I fell prey to "negative talk." What would you do differently?: Learn how to swim and swim more.  Transition 1
Comments: As I was exiting the water Booger said he could see in my face that I did not have the killer instinct this day and I hate to admit it but he is correct. Once I saw how much time I had given up in the swim I sort of "spit the bit" as we used to say in the horse racing biz. What would you do differently?: Not give up so easily and race every step.  Bike
Comments: Considering that the bike is usually my best discipline and I rarely get passed on the bike I knew that I was just not in the game this day. I was not fighting for position at all anywhere, was riding conservatively and actually letting people who had no business passing me pass me. I later told Booger I just didn't have any "ass" to me. What would you do differently?: Not give up and worry about the competition. Race everyone like they are my competition. Overthinking was my enemy this day. Transition 2
Comments: Not as pitiful a transition as the first one but still conceded too much to others. Usually I race like an animal with no thought to who I'm racing. What would you do differently?: Act like I'm actually in a race.  Run
Comments: Loved the course, which I had run part of Friday morning. Wore Garmin so that I could track my pace. While this time is not impressive to mostly anyone else in the world, I was actually kind of pleased that I ran this as a tempo run and it felt easy. Not that it should have been easy because I WAS IN A DAMNED RACE but still... What would you do differently?: Um, run like I'm in a race? Post race
Warm down: Nada. Did the Jersey fist-pump at the finish line and got my much coveted medal. What limited your ability to perform faster: My inability to swim didn't help but I lost it mentally mostly. I also think that travelling to the race was a bit of a energy-zapper but I'm not making any more excuses. I knew I gave up and I didn't push like I should have. Event comments: I would encourage anyone who qualifies for Nationals to go - the weekend in Milwaukee was just fabulous! I met Chrissie Wellington as soon as we got to the expo and then we got to sit with her at dinner that night. She is just the sweetest, most down to earth person you could ask for - love her! It was AMAZING how we were treated - I felt like an elite athlete the entire weekend and I cannot rave about this race enough. It was definitely one of the best trips of my life!!!! Last updated: 2013-07-15 12:00 AM
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72F / 22C
Sunny
Overall Rank = 965/
Age Group = F45-49
Age Group Rank = 48/53
Because I knew that my swim wave was not going off until 8:48 I tried to "sleep in" until 5 a.m. before heading to transition. Didn't happen - I was too excited to get there and get into the race feeling. Once we got everything set up though we did run back up the hotel (we had a perfect location!) and Booger grabbed some food. I ate part of a bagel with peanut butter on it and had coffee.
Um, is shaking from nerves considered a warm-up? I was actually pretty calm until about 10 minutes before my wave started to line up. Jumped right in the water and paddled around.