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Wow - three new triathletes.  Congrats everyone.  We had some great racing last weekend, and the one before as well.  I did a sprint last weekend.  It was the race I did last year as my first tri, and I managed to shave 10 minutes off of last year's time.  I pulled off my first strong swim, and did a PR on the 5 k.  I'm so pumped.  I finally feel like a triathlete.  My last two races felt like a slog to the finish, while this one I felt strong the whole way through.

I'm off to read all your race reports from the last two weekends (mine's up now).  Woo hoo. 

Keep up the great work all.

D 

Hi all!!! I'm back.  RR is up but read bootygirl's first as she remembered more details and gives a better picture of pre race....

feet are healing but came home to find husband with bashed up face from car accident.  broken nose, and eye lacerations from brow to eye lashes almost... not a preety picture.  It happened night before we drove to Minnesota and he didn't want me worrying...  he'll live but is sore and bruised and swollen.  Who knows about truck though!

Came home also to great looking house.  New windows!!!  and new paint downstairs.  No more ugly wall paper!  Now I just have to clean everything and put house back together.  Training to resume soon but feet are still pretty bad and need more time to heal before I start running and biking for October tri.  Swim class though tomorrow night!!!

 Have a good week everyone!

Hey, congratulations on another race! Just read bootygirl's report - it was a hard one for her.

Feel sorry for your husband, poor guy - I hope he gets well quickly and insurance pays for the truck!

Hey Everyone!  I did my second tri yesterday.   I did it to get the OWS practice in before my attempt at Chicago.  I absolutely suck at swimming. In the pool I'm ok and have been doing well and making marked improvement. In the OW it's as if I don't swim at all. It's crazy & upsetting.  So I'm having some serious mental issues with this swim.  BUT, I will say that I felt much more comfortable in the water this time than last week in my first tri.

I did well in the bike. It was hillier than I'm used to and I still managed to maintain above 17 mph. Not as good as my 19 mph last race but this course was much more difficult. I did better in the run this time than I had last week.  They advertised this run as flat and fast, but my hamstring can assure you that it wasn't flat. 10 mpm down to 8:47, so my legs I guess are getting used to this running off of the bike stuff.  My times for the 5k are much faster than that, so assuming that it will always be slower in the triathlon I still have a ways to go until I get my 5k time after swimming & biking down to at least a minute slower than a 5k by itself (am I correct in assuming that last bit).

 At the end of the day I'm a very happy camper.  These two races, as well as the one coming up, will give me somewhere to start as far as improving  for  next year

Hello all,

I am back from a trip to Maine where the high temps were in the 70s, vs 100s in ATL.  So I got in lots of running and open water swimming in the bay.  It was my first time to swim in my wet suit and it wasn't bad.  I bought it used on ebay and so it seemed to leak just a bit.  But not enough to really bother me, just an initial shock.  I figure the water up there is so much colder than anything I will be in for in ATL that I should be ok.  The only drawback of Maine is all of the lobster and blueberry pies that I ate  I gained over 10 pounds in 8 days and now have to cram to get back to a decent weight for completing an international next month. 

Yes, great idea - I would suggest Italian Village in downtown for pizza/ pasta meal - it has this Italian mafia style... Carrie, please send me PM if you are interested and if there's anything else I can assist you with while you are in Chicago.

Best of luck to everyone racing this weekend. 

I'm hanging low till this upper respitory infection clears out - with the asthma and this infection, breathing is very difficult.  My husband is recovering from his accident but still has dizzyness and headaches but overall we're lucky he didn't loose an eye or worse.  The truck is a total loss so we are off to car shop tonight with 3 kids in tow.... the joy! 

Happy weekend everyone.

cathleen 

edited to add this is my 700th post - whoohooo

The Dam 09 Super Sprint Triathlon that I was supposed to run tomorrow, got changed to a Du.  Apparently the bike course is under 12 feet of water.  So it's a run swim run.  This should be interesting.  Especiallly since I have to wake up in 5 hours to get ready.  'Night folks.

Hope everyone had a great weekend!

I have officially joined the ranks... Just came back from Pleasant Prairie where (in spite of rain and storms all night that made it impossible to sleep at all) I have finished my first Sprint Tri (750/20/5)with the time of 1:27:24. It was fantastic, more than 2000 people, well organized. I'm off to preparing a report and uploading some pics.

great job,, I'll be looking for your report.. 

WOW !!! that sounds awesome.. I'm a sucker for any cause for kids.........Great job in being a part of it... that is soo incredible what people can do when they pull together for  a great cause 

Bopper - congratulations on finishing this ride, what a distance! Great cause, checked the website - I would love to do it some time in the future (the 100k/day version of course).

Congrats - will look for the RR... doesn't it feel great to have finally done a tri!?  The accomplishment of it makes you just feel good.

hey I ran today - granted only 2 miles but I did it - until I had a coughing fit and had to stop - thought I'd cough up a lung there.... each day is getting better.

Take care of those saddle sores - have no idea how to treat them and don't think I want to go there..

cathleen

Welcome to the growing club.  I am newbie myself but enjoy every minute of it.  Congrats on your first of many.