Felt good on the swim. This is a huge improvement for me, so I'll take it. Especially if everyone who says the swim was long is correct. Nothing really to add here except people really need to learn how to sight. I ran into a lot of people who were swimming diagonal to me..and I was in line with the buoy.

nothing.

I am a little poky in T1. I have not mastered putting on my socks and shoes quickly. Not my bike shoes anyway. I had a pretty good spot though right by bike entry/exit.

Practice.

My legs were burning for the entire ride so I pushed where I could and tried to race as best I could. At about mile 5 or so, my friend Annie came up behind me and was saying hi. I looked at her blankly until she yelled my name and I snapped out of my fog. Oh! Thankfully she came along because I was just in a daze pedaling along and not really "racing". So I put on my racing hat and took off. I would say I really pushed from miles 9 to the end. All the while my legs were just not feeling the bike. Come to find out the next day (before a ride) my front brake was rubbing and bad. My tire would spin for a second and then come to a stop. Oops. I knew BEFORE the race that my brake was too close but I 1. forgot to check it in transition and 2. I didn't realize it was that bad. Oh well, I just laughed it off. Bike time was a little slower than I would like but not terrible. Another note, is my aero bottle was not velcroed in the entire time. I somehow managed to hold onto my bottle for the 24 miles while in aero. There were some roads I seriously considered tossing the thing because it was so bumpy but whatever.

Check brakes before a race. duh. Otherwise, not "forget" I'm racing and really push myself. I have troubles with pushing on the bike for some reason.

Pretty smooth here. Helmet off while running with bike. Bike on rack, shoes off, run shoes on, grab everything else and go.

Nothing. Pretty standard.

Going into the run I felt great. I tried to keep a steady pace heading up to the damn because well, it's all up hill. No problems there. Really, there were no problems throughout the entire run. I never slowed down and I was only passed by 1 person. A very chipper girl who was yelling and whooping at everyone. I was glad she passed me :) A little too much energy can be annoying. haha. I saw a bunch of familiar faces out there and really just enjoyed it. I was finally having a good race.

Nothing really. I know I can run a little faster than this but honestly this is a good run (for me) for where I am at in training.

Just happiness. A PR and on the same course..from 2007. So I've waited a while for a PR and I am happy with my race.


Training a lot (for Ironman) so no real tapper and lots of miles on the legs. But I also think all the training helped too.