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luv2bike - that is such a great success story about your first tri! You should be very proud of yourself, if I remember correctly from earlier posts, Erika is your daughter. Is that right? Sounds like she did great.

Heather - You can do it! Sounds like you are totally ready for the tri given your swimming and bike times and to be honest, your first tri is tough on the run as the jello legs set in and there will probably be many people walking. I hope you stick with it! It really is a great feeling of accomplishment.

Congrats luv2bike!

Heather, definitely still do it!  You will do just fine

OK, let's keep the thread here, it's nice to have a place to "meet."  That way we can keep track of each other! 

carbongirlco, please feel free to chime in too! 

[ Being the grandmother of the group, you all inspire me to keep up.

Kendra - I just had to tell you that my MIL was in town for Mother's Day and I am working on trying to talk her into doing a triathlon. I think she thought I was absolutely nuts at first, but now I have gotten an email from her saying she is looking into it and really considering it!

So I took a day of from work to ... swim, bike and run of course ;-)

I'm test riding and test running my sprint course for thi weekend race, and I already swam 1700 m this morning. My hubby is takinga a day off with me to tag along, just in case i fall of my bike ;-)

 Looks like everyone is having a lovely start of the race season. I enjoy reading your reports girls. This site is grate! I was always humorous about  people making friends online, and now i'm on of them. Just look at our group, what a great bunch of ladies, mothers and athletes! And this fall one of the coolest members here Max (look him up if you have not met his yet) is coming here to Northern VA with his wife to do a Marine Corps Marathon, so we already made plans to meet for dinner!

Off biking now...

Z. 

Christine, Wow, You did an awesome job!  I can only hope to do that well on Sat.   Your times were great.  Good luck on your next race this weekend.

Heather, Good luck on the OWS Sat.  I'm going to go to the one on 6/9.  I'm going to the bike at Latta on Sun am.

Kaci, That is a good way to look at the race as a training where there will be a lot of people there.  That helps me not to be quite so nervous.

Zoya, Good luck on your race this weekend! I hope it goes well for you!

Kendra, Thanks for asking about my OWS.  It was a little scary at first.  I had swam in a lake but this was a lot different.  Kaci has given me some good tips for next time.

What does everyone eat the morning of a race?  How long before the race did you eat?

Mel 

Hey all....how's it going?  I had some bad luck, I went for a run on Wednesday and felt a pop in my calf.....I tore my soleus muscle.  So no running for 4 weeks.  And when is my first race?  You guessed it, 4 weeks.  So I'll see how I do for a bit.  For now, I can swim and wt train.  Biking hurts a bit so I'll wait on that too.  ARGH! 

Zoya, I'm so jealous that you will meet Max!  Good luck in your race!  I'll be looking forward to your report!

Mel, Good luck to you also!  You will do GREAT!  I usually eat breakfast (soy shake with rice milk) about 2 hours or so before a race, then I use a gel before the swim.  Your race day nutrition is something that will take a little trial and error!  Just make sure you eat something that isn't upsetting to your stomach!  Like....avoid having a can of beans for breakfast

Kateri, good info from Kendra.  There are also Clif Shot Bloks.  I like those but I also use gels.  Pick up a few different kinds and try them out during some workouts to test how you will tolerate them. 

have a great weekend everyone!

Just look Max up :-), Search forums for Max and check his logs. He is one great guy.

Cathy, I am so sorry to hear about your injury.  I hope you are able to heal quickly.  I'm sure that is really frustrating for you.

I had an awesome time yesterday.  We all had a great time.  I'm really psyched for my race in June now.  I ended up placing 3rd for my age group (35-39).  I didn't even know I had won a medal (since we left before the awards ceremony) until I went to an after race party that one of my friends had last night.  I almost started crying when he handed it to me.  It was funny that he gave me the medal b/c I had kept on telling him he was going to place since he is such an excellent swimmer & really fast on the bike.  He didn't end up placing though.  I beat out my other friend.  She is in my age group and we were running together and then I sprinted out and finished before her.  I'm a faster biker than her and I think my time on the bike was faster than hers.

My dh, children & I left before the awards ceremony since they were getting antsy(my kids not my husband) and my dh was getting very grouchy.  I didn't get a chance to look at my times on the printout and they haven't posted them yet.  As soon as they post the times on their web site I'll do my race report.  I'll figure out how to post pictures on here.

Mel