The swim has been inciting some anxiety for me last couple of races, I think in part because I have not been spending as much time in the pool. I actually was pleased with my citing as I was acutally on course and was able to pass a few people and get into open water and just swim, but I did have a couple of panic moments, at one point I did the crawl stroke to relax, WTF? I have never done the crawl, not sure where that came from, I felt like one of the blue hairs at the Y and told myself to HTFU and started swimming again. The swim seemed short...

More time in the pool and an OWS session every now and again might be nice to help relieve some of the anxiety.

I came, I transitioned, I went.

Nada.

This bike was fun! I'm acutally a little disappointed because I thought I was moving a bit faster then that but it is what it is. This pace seems about average for me - I seem to push in the 16-17 mph range fairly consistently so I guess I shouldn't be disappointed. I passed a few people and got passed by a few. This hills weren't bad and I was able to keep my breathing in check - no monkey mating breathing here like there was at the Miami tri. I was having some problems shifting, and my bike kept hopping gears when I was in my big ring which was pissing me off. I guess I need to figure out how to make some adjustments on my bike - yeah, yeah, I know, I should know the mechanics of it...blah, blah, blah.

I need to spend more time in the saddle...that's all.

Heh, heh, I don't want to grow up, I'm a triathlete kid...still no big girl bike shoes so I can fly through this transition. hop off bike, run bike to rack, rack bike, throw helmet down...gone.

Nil

It was hot on that levy! I wasn't prepared for the uphill start but once I got moving and thankfully most of it was in the shade, I was fine. Ha ha, so I was on my way back in and had been behind this guy in these obscenely small bright blue striped spandex shorts (this was not a pretty site - just saying) and one of the DT3 guys and we finally got to a place where we could pass. The DT3 guys says to the guy in the blue shorts go ahead and pass and so I follow and I hear the DT3 guy say very disappointly "oh god" as I passed them both...whatever that guy should have run faster if he didn't want me to pass him because I run as slow as hippos mating.

I think me mental game was off here - I've had a few training runs in the last two weeks go awry because of the heat and humidity and I think that took away from my ability to push myself mentally. I still completed the run in under 9:00 miles which is better than my average training pace, I guess I'm just one of those people that runs better off the bike.

Got some water and stood with Mike while we watched and yelled for Teresa as she finished. I walked with them over to transition and walked my bike over to their car. M&T apparently have some extra stuff lying around at home (aero bars, wheels etc.) and want to make some upgrades to my bike!!!! So incredibly awesome and unbelievably nice of them. I'm really excited! After M & T left with my bike, I talked to several other folks and ate a couple of PB&J sandwiches. Results were posted and HOLY COW! I got 3rd place in my AG and picked up some hardware...again?!?!?! After Maumee Bay I was preparing myself so that I wouldn't be disappointed when I came in MOP, but guess I didn't need to do that since I took third. Overall I felt like it was a good race, my total time was only 2 minutes slower than Maumee and Caesar Creek had hills on both the bike and run which Maumee had on neither. So yippee.


I feel like my training hasn't had a lot of pop lately, I need to work on that and last week ended up being one of my lightest training weeks ever...but I'm ready to get back to it hot and heavy.