Lake Waconia Tri

Good luck tomorrow guys!

Wind and course this morning was tough IMO.  They ended up cutting the swim in half except for the elite group as last year in similar conditions they had to pull a lot of people out of the water.  Waves were coming into the beach at about a 45 degree angle in 1 to 2 foot swells, so going out was tough and coming in was much easier, but still tough to breathe with the waves.  I saw a few people hanging onto buoys and some treading water to rest or doing the breast stroke - pretty typical I'd guess.

Going out on the bike was also tough as it was into the wind but coming back was easy cruising at 30 mph.  Still, I'd rather have calm!  The run was very tough I thought with the 4 mile out and back course being mostly uphill the first half.

I met my goals:
  1. I finished

  2. I didn't embarrass myself

  3. I broke 2 hours.

  4.  I had no gear issues and good transitions, despite a bunch of new things for me.

Anxious to hear what others thought.

EJ and MM --- Great job sticking it out!  I was actually signed up to do the race, but am injured and can't run.  I had planned to do the swim and bike portions.... until I saw the wind reports last night on the weather.  I had nightmares all night about the swim and at 5:00am saw the gusts and just panicked and said "I can't do it".

WHile I feel like crap for a DNS (it would have been a DNF anyway), reading your comments makes me feel like I made the right decision.  I totally would have been the one clinging onto a bouy.

Congrats on finishing to both of you!  Kelly

Good job guys!  I checked the results and you all did great.

Results are here:  http://www.pigmantri.com/jmsracing/results09/wac09b.html

It's a weird site, but all of the Midwest Multisport Series events are posted on that site (http://www.pigmantri.com/jmsracing/results09/result09.html)

Thanks for the link.  They have not updated the race website yet, which is wehre I was looking.

The swim was perfect at the Rochester Tri yesterday, maybe it's just a curse that follows Megan around

Lucky!  You might want to create a new thread in the MN forum about this, with a Subject like "Want to buy my new Zipp wheels?" so people will look.  Good luck!