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I cannot complain.  For only having run one three mile run in the past two weeks and just finishing antibiotics on Friday and still fighting chest cold.  I definitely made the right choice swithing to the Sprint.  The Oly would have been hard and even harder wathcing our team pro (Robin) complete this thing.  She is am animal!  Actually it was great experience learning how to cough under water.  LOL.
I finished the sprint (700y swim, 16m bike (although bike odometer said 17 miles) and 3.1R) in 1:53.  I don't even like posting this time.  Robin pretty much embarrased everyone out there.  I was yelling at her and she was so focused I don't think she heard a thing.  I did get to meet her family though.  Great bunch of supporters!  Jake is still sick also so Kelly stayed home with him.  This race venue was excellent!!!!!!!!! Very well organized and great people.  I did get a little teary-eyed when the teams with children who had cerebral palsy came across the finish line.  It was very touching and I will certainly support this cause.
I will post splits when I get them. 
Thanks for all the support all!
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Here it is

http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=221379

Great Race Brian and Robin!!!!!!!!!!!

Brian and Group
Thanks for all the support and encouragement!

Team,

Sorry in advance for the long post!

I just wanted to take a moment this morning to say how awesome this whole mentor group experience has been for me.  When I first volunteered to be a mentor, I wasn’t so sure about it.  After all, I was only in my second season of triathlon, only had 3 sprint tri’s under my belt and thought that I really have no business trying to offer support to a group of newer triathletes when my feet were barely wet myself.  However, to date, this experience has exceeded my wildest expectations!   

Each of us have had our own personal challenges to deal with over the past 5 months, be it:  family, illness, injury’s, missed training sessions, broken down cars, or just  life in general and I feel that with this group we really come through for each other.  It is great to see everyone dropping in and inspiring each other, checking on logs, offering up advice or even an opportunity to go camping in the Carolinas!   It really is amazing and awe inspiring!  I have never had an experience like this before where a bunch of strangers who have never, and still never, with the exception of Tom and Robin’s DH, met in person to be so supportive and proud of each other and the accomplishments we’ve achieved in such a short time span. 

If you haven’t done so already, I encourage you to go back to page 1 of this thread and read through all the bio’s you wrote 5 months ago, it is amazing the accomplishments and breakthroughs you have made since.  Here are a few of my personal highlights from the past few months: 

-Noel, you dropped like 40 lbs and went from running 11 minute miles to 7:30’s, ran your 1^st, 2^nd and soon 3^rd tri all with a little girl at home and taking care of your expecting wife! 

-Tom, you endure through family, amazing vacations with your son, illness after what seems like illness and still manage to show up on race day and bring it home! 

-Crissy, Not only did you get yourself back into a consistent routine, you gave back by leading a couch to 5K run with your community and you completed your 1^st tri, even after your horrific volunteering experience!  That is some serious mental strength! 

-Gerardo, in between globetrotting, you manage to come home and bounce right back into a routine.  A real testament to how life can interrupt your training, and in your case take you out of it for weeks at a time, and you get right back on that horse and hit it hard! 

-Justin, I love your race reports because you always manage to get your family involved!  Race day morning can be very stressful on their own, but you take care of what you need to take care of, then always head back and get the family.  Not an easy task at the crack of dawn and especially not easy with 3 children.  You know what’s important in life! 

-Ronda, talk about a balancing act!  Family, Horses, TKD, and Swimming upwards of 10K meters per week!  You do everything you want to do, yet help us remember that Family comes 1^st and sometimes a sacrifice is necessary to take care of those who take care of us!    

-Robin, you were debating whether to do the Cleveland Olympic or sprint, then you take 1^st in your AG in the Oly, Amazing!  You set out to do something and then you kill it!  You podium’d in every race you ran while taking care of your family and getting the DH involved!   You always manage to find time to check in with us, drop some inspires and chime in with advice just when we need it! 

The reason I write this today is because over the past three weeks or so while reading your race reports, I can’t help but to beam with pride!   In fact, I even got choked up with a number of them, kind of embarrassing!  Also, I just realized that the Spring 2010 mentor program has officially ended.  Which really means absolutely nothing!  I have every intention of keeping this group active if you wish to still participate.   

Even though we have never met, I consider all of you my friends and I look forward to keeping up with you and tracking your progress and future successes.  I encourage all of you to consider volunteering to be a mentor in the future.  I’ve only been doing triathlons for a year now, and this group has been my most satisfying experience since I began!  Thanks to each and every one of you for being part of my group, and providing me with tremendous support as well as a killer sounding board!  

-Brian