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Comments: Now into my internal dialogue Ok my wave is up. I enter the water (we started in the water this time). 3 2 1 Go . . . ok good start. Ouch, who is kicking me must pass her. Opps now I’m kicking someone. Oh elbow. Ok few found my space to swim. I think I’m out in front of the main pack of women. Ok see I can spot the first bouye no problem. Ok focus on form ….reach..pull..reach..pull ect… Ok first bouye and turn ok now just follow the swim caps of the wave in front of me (green swim caps - oh by the way I am a red swim cap and Dante is a hot pink swim cap – soo funny) I hope these green caps are going the right way because I sure can not see any bouye! Ok back to form reach.. pull ect…ect… where is the bouye? Where am I ? Oh there are some other swimmers follow them. Oh there is the bouy. Great turn ok now back to the dock. Where is the dock? Well I know it’s in this general direction. Great now I am passing some green caps. I must be crusing, I actually feel pretty good in the water like I’m glidding…. If I only knew were I was going. Ok I got stop swimming and take a good look because I think I may be way off course because I just swam into a girl going the other way. Oh I’m ok .. Ok back to form…reach..pull ect.. There is the shore ok made it. I hear Diane ( my friend who did the sprint tri and started after us) yelling my name. Yes Go Kelly Go!! (I finished 5th out of all the females in the swim with a time of 32:09 mins – not bad)  Transition 1
Comments: Ok to transition .. breath .. calm down my heartrate…. Don’t trip…. Ok sunglasess check, helmet check, socks check, bike shoes check. Shoot there go two girls out of transition already.. ok GU ( food) check. Ok grab bike and GO.  Bike
Comments: Ouch rough ride first 2 miles pretty bumpy ok now onto the cause way … crusing. … drink water Kelly drink water!!! Ok make the turn for the first set of bridges ( yes plural bridges). WOW WIND. I think I just hit a wall. OMG ( that stands for oh my god) my speed is 9mph this is rough…but I’m ok everyone else is going that slow. This combo of bridges and wind is cruel!!!! Those tri gods really like to test us. Just get thru it kel. . . Ok turn back south now few now the wind is a only a cross wind. Be safe kel don’t get blown sideways. Ok crusing.. eat a gu.. yummy vanilla is my favorite flavor it tastes like pudding…. Darn it a girl passed me!! Ok just keep her in your sights … wow she is going to fast lost her . . cruising . . . . ok now I can’t even see anyone in front of me and no one is coming from behind. . am I lost . . did I miss a turn? Hmm…………..oh ok there is someone good I am going the right way. Oh more bridge/wind combos …oh great now some rain . . .I can’t belive the phils lost I’m so bummed! No Kelly stay positive they had a great season and you have a race to finish. Ok last bridge and then we are back to transition. Go (Finished 19th on the bike out of the females with an avg pace of 19mph and 1hour 27 min time for a 27 mile bike) Transition 2
Comments: Ok into transition…woa I am not very good at running with my bike . ..ok race bib check…visor check …Gramin ( GPS run thing) check and go  Run
Comments: …. Wow I feel great . . .ok ladies where are you I am coming to catch you…darn it if I could only see you ahead I would hawk you down . . . I feel really good. I got a 6:50 pace and crusing . . ok lets pass these guys . . why is it the guys can never run? ……oh there is a girl. . . I’m gonna get her . . . cruise . . got her . . mile 2 done . . oh there is another got her too…ok mile 3 done and now for the bridge with the head on wind. Oh just push thru this and then the wind will be with you .. don’t think about the pain just go . . oh my shoulder is starting to cramp ok breath … fell like I doing some weird lamaz breath but it is working… ok down the bridge turn around and back over. One last bridge climb . go push push, catch has many people as I can .. hey there is Dante going the other way. . ..Hi Five! Good job Dante… Ok push mile 5, 1 more mile to go. Push. There is the finish sprint all you have!! Done ..ouch … water I need water. (I finished 2nd in the run out of the females with a 44 min for 6.2 miles..that is a 7:07 min/mile avg with a bridge in the middle – def one of my best run times!!) Post race
Event comments: Great race overall despite the windy/rainy condition. Dante and I were both frustrated with the swim set up – esp Dante apparently he and about 20 other swimmers swam way off course. Poor Dante almost ran into a photographer on his bike going down hill at about 35 miles/hour so we were both just happy that we survived the race. I finished 3rd overall for female and Dante got 1st in Clydesdale div. Last updated: 2007-10-07 12:00 AM
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. Dante and I tried to stay up and finish the phils game Saturday night but we both passed out with the score tied 1-1. (That night I had the strangest dreams that somehow combined phillies baseball and triathlons). When we woke at 5:15 we found out the results of the game and were pretty bummed but decided to not let it get us down and to go on with the race. I thought about calling Mom and Dad but then realized it was 5:15 am so didn’t. Eat ,y nice cold peanut butter sandwich and we were on are way.
We packed our stuff up and headed out the lovely crown plaza of Melbourne. (Sidenote never go to Melbourne if you don’t have to- not much there). We walk outside and not only is it raining and looked like it rained all night but it is also really windy. Oh well we said this should be an adventure.
Got to Transition set up our stuff, went to the bathroom. Went on a warm up run, went to the bathroom. Then we headed down to the River/Intercostal for the swim start. Good news is the rain stopped but the bad news is the wind really picked up. Another piece of bad news that Dante and I will rant about after the race is there are only two bouys to mark the swim route. Keep in mind the swim is about a mile long (we are doing an olympic distance race so 1 mile swim, 26 mile bike, and a 10k run) and the last time we did an oly race we had 4 boueys. So spotting the bouyes would be hard especially with the choppy waves so we figured we would follow the swim caps of the waves in front of us and hope they were going in the right direction