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Congrats Dan - awesome race!

go Christina!!!!!

I'm home safe and sound and pleased w/ my race.  Not sure where I ended up since I left before any results were up.  My son raced this morning at another race.  Apparantly he took a header on his bike, trashed the rim but got up and finished.  He seems ok just a little road rash on the shoulder.  Super proud of him getting it done. 

chrissie came off the bike 24th and finished 8th (1:18 run) up at christina's race.  looks like lots of pro dudes need to fix their makeup.   

and christina.. we need to talk about this last name of yours. 

Pligavko

what?

I don't meat. That's okay I make lamb.

Am I right?

One fool done.  Cloudy, light drizzle and temp of about 65 for the duration of the race.   My time was 2:35:xx which is a new personal best for me by about 9 minutes.   I am not sure if I broke 50 min on the run, but my last 6 km were all sub 5 (garmin problems...well, garmin operator problems).  More details to follow after they post the results.

Good luck to everyone else racing today.

Hope everyone is doing Awesome. I haven't had much time to be online and keep up with everyone in the last month. Work has really gotten in the way of EVERYTHING including training. I have been keeping up my running for my first HM and making 90% of those runs. Only been on the bike twice in the last month and went swimming 4 times in the last two weeks to prep for a Sprint Race that happened today.

My last sprint I had a goal of under 1:30 and didn't hit it due to a side stitch and a few other things.. Today with reduced training and no goal in mind I did my local sprint in 1:29:39 WOOHOOO

Race Report here. Sorry for the short post, I kind of feel bad dropping in hanging up a race report and running away. But it has been a tough summer with my training buddy in China and working lots of hours. I am not done with this sport however. I am only just getting started.

http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=265588

Hope everyone is doing great. Keep up the hard work and I hope I can catch up with everyone soon.

Did my Ride to Conquer Cancer ride this weekend, wow, it was much harder than I was expecting!

The first day started at 5:30 am in Brisbane and went out to a country area where all the water for Brisbane is stored in big dams. I haven't been out there before and it's really hilly.

We camped overnight then rode back Sunday.

Large numbers of riders were walking up the hills and I was especially pleased that I managed to ride up them all keeping a nice steady cadence, one hill was 12% and riding that - standing up most of the way was a challenge.

Someone had a Garmin and they recorded 8829 feet elevation gain over the 238km's (118km ride Saturday, 120km's on Sunday).

Anyway, great ride and $4.7million raised for cancer research.

kt65 - 2011-08-21 7:45 AM

dcon - 2011-08-21 5:14 AM

One fool done.  Cloudy, light drizzle and temp of about 65 for the duration of the race.   My time was 2:35:xx which is a new personal best for me by about 9 minutes.   I am not sure if I broke 50 min on the run, but my last 6 km were all sub 5 (garmin problems...well, garmin operator problems).  More details to follow after they post the results.

Good luck to everyone else racing today.

Great race, Dan! Taking 9 minutes off an Oly is hard to do, even tougher when you are already so speedy. NICE!

^^ What she said. a 9 min PR is huge!!

Did my Ride to Conquer Cancer ride this weekend, wow, it was much harder than I was expecting!

The first day started at 5:30 am in Brisbane and went out to a country area where all the water for Brisbane is stored in big dams. I haven't been out there before and it's really hilly.

We camped overnight then rode back Sunday.

Large numbers of riders were walking up the hills and I was especially pleased that I managed to ride up them all keeping a nice steady cadence, one hill was 12% and riding that - standing up most of the way was a challenge.

Someone had a Garmin and they recorded 8829 feet elevation gain over the 238km's (118km ride Saturday, 120km's on Sunday).

Anyway, great ride and $4.7million raised for cancer research.

Congrats to all the other racers, Dan, Doug, Chris, Sam, Linda and Rob!

Sam- I hope Drew is alright. 

Linda- Sorry you're not too happy with your race.  There's always another.

Dan- Nice PR!

And thank you all you guys for your support!  I thought about all of you out there.  I'll give a full RR in time but overall here's the best of;  Pre-race- crazy nervous, almost puked a few times.  swim- breast stroked to the first turn bouy but from there on consistent and good swim.  Bike- the hills, oh the hills, didn't train them nearly enough.  Run- drank way too much on the bike and had bloated belly. Was staying strong and consistent then a ref came by and told me severe weather was coming in fast and they were telling people to turn around so I'm about 2.5-3 mi short on achieving a full 70.3. (unsure bc my watch stopped working around the midpoint) To say the least, I'm extremely disappointed.  Regardless, I had fun out there and it won't be my last.

BTW, Kim- HUGE TY for the T2 tip!  Worked PERFECTLY!

Congrats to all the other racers, Dan, Doug, Chris, Sam, Linda and Rob!

Sam- I hope Drew is alright. 

Linda- Sorry you're not too happy with your race.  There's always another.

Dan- Nice PR!

And thank you all you guys for your support!  I thought about all of you out there.  I'll give a full RR in time but overall here's the best of;  Pre-race- crazy nervous, almost puked a few times.  swim- breast stroked to the first turn bouy but from there on consistent and good swim.  Bike- the hills, oh the hills, didn't train them nearly enough.  Run- drank way too much on the bike and had bloated belly. Was staying strong and consistent then a ref came by and told me severe weather was coming in fast and they were telling people to turn around so I'm about 2.5-3 mi short on achieving a full 70.3. (unsure bc my watch stopped working around the midpoint) To say the least, I'm extremely disappointed.  Regardless, I had fun out there and it won't be my last.

BTW, Kim- HUGE TY for the T2 tip!  Worked PERFECTLY!

No nut allergies here and those travel by USPS quite well! 

Congrats to all the other racers, Dan, Doug, Chris, Sam, Linda and Rob!

Sam- I hope Drew is alright. 

Linda- Sorry you're not too happy with your race.  There's always another.

Dan- Nice PR!

And thank you all you guys for your support!  I thought about all of you out there.  I'll give a full RR in time but overall here's the best of;  Pre-race- crazy nervous, almost puked a few times.  swim- breast stroked to the first turn bouy but from there on consistent and good swim.  Bike- the hills, oh the hills, didn't train them nearly enough.  Run- drank way too much on the bike and had bloated belly. Was staying strong and consistent then a ref came by and told me severe weather was coming in fast and they were telling people to turn around so I'm about 2.5-3 mi short on achieving a full 70.3. (unsure bc my watch stopped working around the midpoint) To say the least, I'm extremely disappointed.  Regardless, I had fun out there and it won't be my last.

BTW, Kim- HUGE TY for the T2 tip!  Worked PERFECTLY!

I tried to get her to send me some buttermilk brownies one time...didn't work.  (Got the recipe though!).