So this was a good swim for me! :) A new PR at this distance! I was having operational difficulty with the *&*#@$%^&^$ garmin (grrrr) so I had no clue what my time was during the race, but it felt like a good swim, and it was!

Not much...sighted well, only got knocked about a bit, did well at the buoys and felt good when I got out of the drink!

Meh...I seem to remember screwing something up...but I can't recall what exactly. :)

Practice...I only did 2 run throughs and I need to keep working on having a system, and NOT THINKING!

I was freaked out about Thompson Hill, rightly so...it was flipping awful! BUT...I did it! Woot! A guy was doing switchbacks up that climb and I used that technique when there was space to the rest of the weekend. I was a total baby and scrubbed speed on all the windy descents, but I'm totally ok with that. I saw a dude that crashed 5 miles into the race, and I was not gonna be another casualty! About 45 minutes into the ride I flatted. I'm so grateful it wasn't on the hill or the crazy hairpin descent just afterwards!!! I cursed myself saying I'd wanted to practice tire changes and didn't get to it. Doh! It took for ever to fix cause I'm such a dork. Lots of folks checked to see if I needed anything, and Ranger stopped when he came upon me (I did tell him to head out, but he wouldn't). I finally got it fixed and finished up the ride.

Practice changing flats prerace...especially on the zipps, air up the tires properly before the race (forgot!) not waste a co2 cartridge cause I'm clumsy!

As far as the bike goes, if I were "racing" I'd have pushed harder on the flats and descents, but I was "completing". :)

not horrible, not fast. My usual

Practice of course!

Man, that was HARD! I had to walk up steep stuff. My legs were tired from the ride (even with the 20 minute break fixing the flat!) and I'm no hill runner. Tried to remember to stay within my abilities...goal was to finish vertical with no injuries and lots of expereience from the weekend. The course description said you'd either love or hate the run trail by the end of the weekend. I knew there would be NO LOVE.

Not much....I haven't run hills or trails this year really, and after the challenging bike, I did what my coach asked...stayed with in my abilities.

Muscle milk and the lovely ice bath with Ranger and Steve in Turkey Creek River! Ahhhhhh!


Lack of training on trails and hill work. The injury after IMFL ate into my winter of trail running...a lot!


Damn, that was hard, and I knew I had to do it again...in a few hours! Those downhills on the run are gonna be murder for the half!

Thank goodness for fast friends! Steve has been fetching the van (it's too wet to park on the grass by transition) and picking Ranger and I up so we don't have to ride back up hill to the lodge after racing. This weekend is hard enough already!!!