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Heather did awesome today!  She got out first and I got out just about last. I had a tough time trying to swim far enough away so I didn't get kicked.  She waited for me which I thought was really nice.  She is going to kick butt next Sunday.  We are going to have a great time!  The OWS is a practice swim that the local Y does to get ready for races.

Mel 

Hmmm.  Well you kind of HAVE to look!  Maybe you can distract yourself by finding someone to draft off of in the water....then you are just following their feet. 

Or you could keep your eyes closed and maybe every 3rd breath look up to site the shore?  In the beginning that might be hard because everyone is bunched up! 

If it helps, I have never seen any critters in the water

Cool Ladies,

I hope I see no "dead people" in that water when I do OWS ;-)))) 

Heather - awesome job on the swim!

Kateri - How was your first tri?

Cathy - I feel for you on the no husband thing, single parenting is HARD!!!! Hope you have a special fun time planned for when he gets back to help you get through it.

I had an AWESOME weekend in Austin. There were 6 women who all went down to do the Danskin tri. We left on Friday morning and the race was Sunday morning. We had lots of time to spend at the outlet malls, went out Friday night and had a few Margaritas and really enjoyed my time away. It was a super fun group of women all who have been doing the Danskin for many years now. I need to get them to sign up for BT! I haven't laughed so hard in a long time. The race was really fun, but the highlight of the weekend was just having some female bonding time and not having to take care of anyone.

I was pleased with my race results as I didn't get but about 4 and 1/2 hours of sleep the night before. There were 2600 people who did the race and I came in 140th on the bike! I was very excited, unfortunately my swim and run times weren't so speedy and my transition times need some serious help. Oh well, we are all planning to go back and do the race next year, although we are planning to stay 3 nights in Austin instead of just 2. That way we will have more shopping and hanging out time!

We are leaving for the beach in the morning and will be gone until Sunday. I may have minimal access to a computer, but probably not too much. I hope to do lots of running while I am gone. It's time to start preparing for my next race which is a 25k in July. It is called "El Schorcho" and it starts at midnight. My friend and I decided to do it pure for the reason that it sounded kind of nutty. I don't plan on running the whole way, but need to start working in some long runs.  

Kateri, Great job on your first race, woohoo you did it!  It's so much fun isn't it?  You did an awesome job I read your race report.

Jill, You did great too, 140 out of 2600!  That is a big race.

Mel 

Jill and Kateri, NICE WORK!  So cool

Melissa, lol, yeah triathlons are like that.....you keep getting ready for the next race! 

This weekend....I know Mel and Heather are racing.  Anyone else?  I am also racing, but unfortunately, I am planning a DNF.  I was told to not run by sports med   I have never DNF'd and I'm not quite sure what I'm supposed to do once I finish the bike! 

It's getting hot out there.....makes training totally different!

We had a lot of fun yesterday.  Heather did awesome! esp on the swim, she passed the whole entire wave that had left 3 minutes earlier!  The race started really early in the morning and we got there about 5 am so it was still dark out.  I just finished my race report.  I think Heather's hooked on tris now.

Mel  

Heather - wow that is so cool that you made a triathlon buddy in this forum!

OK gals, tonight before my weekly session with my trainer I had a few minutes to warm up on the TM. I didn't find a magazine I wanted to flip through so I decided to read an article that was pinned up to the bulletin board that was a story about my trainer. She is a 33 year old ovarian cancer survivor and did a full Ironman in Sept 2006 shortly after finishing her chemo and while she had a broken wrist. It is a pretty amazing story and VERY INSPIRATIONAL! Read it when you have a chance http://www.ironman.com/events/ironman/wisconsin/shawna-gibson-shares-her-unbelievable-journey-to-becoming-an-ironman-2