Since this race has grown so much, the swim has turned into a nightmare. Very crowded, very physical. Very hard to get around the backstrokers, side strokers, breaststrokers, and doggy paddlers. I am getting more used to the physical aspect of a mass swim start, so I am ok with swimming over people and holding my ground. The buoy was a cluster fuck, as usual, and some dude on my left kept trying to move me over by elbowing me in the chest several times, and I responded my hitting him in the head several times ;). Always a pleasure doing battle.

Be a faster swimmer so I don't get caught in the slow lane.

T1 not recorded.

Nothin

I felt good on the bike tonight. I was frustrated at first because I had so many people to get by and there were cops on the course and the slow pokes were not riding on the far right side where they should be. I have never hit my brakes so hard and so many times in a race. Eventually I made some space for myself and was able to hammer away.

Be a faster swimmer so I am on the bike quicker and not get caught in so much slow moving traffic.

T2 not recorded, but I was as speedy as I could be

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I wanted to have a good run tonight, and even though I went harder than I planned on the bike I still felt good going into the run. Pam caught me just before the last steep hill and we took a wrong turn (and we weren't even in a car together!) but quickly realized our mistake and turned around. She pulled away but I kept her in sight and just tried to keep going as steadily as I could. Chris caught me about 1.5 miles in and tried to pace me to catch Pam, but it wasn't happenin. Soon, though ;).

Nothin

Grabbed a towel to wipe my eyes because they were stinging and then went back to the finish to watch more people come in.


Nothin tonight. This is a PR for me by a few minutes, I think.


The Lake T race series is really growing, and one of these days they are going to have to put a cap on the number of participants. It's grown so much from last year. Bill does a good job of handling things and works hard to keep the town happy so the series can continue. Worth the $20.