Whizzzzz's Group -- Full! (Page 15)

tvwatters - 2007-08-15 12:21 AM Bummer Whizzzz It would have been a blast to have you kick our butts up and down the bike course. But the Grand Columbian looks like an AWESOME venue. You pulling the full IM?

No... Chris is... I'm doing the half. That's more than enough for me with the Chicago Marathon coming up!  

makes me wish I signed up with a group near me  so I could meet them in person,  but they might not have been so cool!

 And then there's that semi-planned move I threw in a few months ago.

Race report up.

Random notes

- I enjoyed this more than the sprint. Partly, I'm sure it was familiarity with the environment, but the distance was a better fit to me.  

- I think that the shifting to day shift prior to race weekend would have worked to help me sleep the night before except I had some things come up this week resulted in my mind racing making sleep hard to come by at any time.  

- It's not practical to fast for an hour before Mass when the service starts 5 minutes after you finish racing.

No, you can't join my mentor group - duplicate memberships unnecessary and we're already in the same group.

I've got one more tri on the schedule in September and then the Army 10-Miler and the Marine Corp Marathon in Oct (I did a Coast Guard run already, so if anyone knows anything sponsored by the Navy and Air Force it would round things out nicely)  

Nancy,

You have gone through so many emotions just this season... just in the few months we have known you here in the Posse... doubt, fear, pride, elation, joy, happiness, sadness.... EVERY emotion on the spectrum of feelings!

BUT...this crazy stuff we do is all about testing your limitations. Making yourself hurt, cry, laugh, doubt and seeing if you can do more. You might be last... but someone has got to be last... I've been last... just bring up the rear with style and flair and be sure to wear something cute. Heck, I nearly set a 10K PR for myself and I was STILL last. I wound up running with a man who was shot in Vietnam! We were the last 2 finishers of this 10K, but I can't be disappointed because it was nearly my personal BEST! (No mediocre runners showed up to sort of buffer me from the great runners... even if I would have run a PR...by more than a minute per mile... I STILL would have been LAST.)

As long as you go out there and do your best... there is no reason your coach or your family or any of US would be disappointed in you or your effort. I honestly think your coach would be more disappointed if you pulled out of the race because of a blister on your finger.

You may come in last. You may not. You don't know who else is going to be out there! You have been training for this. You have done lots of work this year and come a long way, baby! . Don't doubt yourself now.

I suspect you will be faster than 2 hours on the bike... and faster than an hour in the swim. Take the race piece by piece. Concentrate on what you are doing in the moment. Get off the bike and take the run step by step. Perpetual Forward Motion. Stop when you reach the end.

Then, give yourself a hug and a little break from training. Return in the off season refreshed and renewed and ready to tackle next year's HIM training. (!!!!!)     

Congratulations on the new family members!