Chilly Cheeks Duathlon Series - Race 3 - DuathlonWinter

felt good on the bike! I was in wave "S" so I had a lot of people in front of me to catch. my uphills felt surprisingly stong. it was a gorgeous day and I was just happy to be out riding my bike with a race number on my chest.
I focused on just keeping a good cadence and efficient pedal strokes. could have gone faster but I know my fitness is busssted right now and I knew my legs wouldn't have much for the run.
the bike seemed to go by pretty quickly. I saw dillard fly by, and katie, but didn't really know how to pick out any of the other BTers that had started out before me

mas training!

haha, would you look at this transition? I wasn't that aggressive...

move my ass faster!

oh my god! this was so painful! my run fitness is ZILCH right now! immediately out of transition I was thinking "I wish this run was shorter." 4 miles felt like an eternity. I had terrible cramps up the sides of my stomach. but I just tried to pick people in frot of my to pass. I would focus on one person at a time and slowly reel them in. this was working and I was hufifng and puffing (seriosuly hard) along, and really just getting down on myself in my head because a run like this SHOULDN'T HURT SO MUCH, and finally I said "damn it I'm going to walk." I walked! during a race! that is ridiculous! and a woman ran by me and said "good job, keep it up!" and lo and behold she had a BT shirt on! (I would find out later this wonderful woman was skarl, and she is a bad ass series winner!). after that I said, ughhh bridget, get your ass moving. So I had to re-pass quite a few people, including a tall thin gazelle of a girl. I love passing girls that look like they should be faster than me, haha. then, incredibly, I started to feel better. cramps weren't so bad. and suddently the midway point was long gone and I was counting down to "just a mile and a half left... just a mile left.... just half a mile left!" the second half of the run went much better than the first.
and there was the beautiful finish line, and I was so glad to be done. ta da, my first CO race complete! painful and ugly, but done!

found the BTers to let them know the FRECKLE HAS ARRIVED in CO racing. found out at the racing award ceremony that I have made some friends that are quick as can be! (I already knew that, though). ate some good mexican food too


I am overweight and undertrained!

but it's a good way to benchmark where I'm at right now so I can watch myself get back to real racing shape.


it was great to be out during such a beautiful day, back in the racing environment. loved all the peeps I met! next year I will make sure I'm in race shape for these races!