First real brick = PR for my run

So I have messed around at the gym after getting off of the spin bike and getting on the treadmill and the results have been pretty good.  Legs feel relatively good and I set my run to about 10min miles just to take it easy and get the feeling of running coming off of the bike.  Well, yesterday I went over to the location of my Sprint Tri that is happening in a few weeks and decided to do my first real brick by doing the bike course and then the run course.  Bike went awesome, I stayed on the big ring for about 90% of the ride and crushed the time I was hoping for.  I wanted to finish the 10 mile bike in about 40 mins and ended up doing it in just over 35 mins.  To add to that, I threw the bike in the van and headed out for the run.  I know people say you will probably run faster off of the bike then you usually do........... WOW are they right.  After about 1/4 mile I tried to guess my pace and I was thinking about 9:30 to 9:45 ish, I hit the button on my Nike+ app............... 8:02 pace.   HOLY CRAP!!!!!!!  I didn't even feel like I was moving.  I decided to try and back it down a bit, I didn't want to go nuts on this run.  I checked my pace at the 1 mile mark and it said 8:14.  Jeeeez, I was still moving.  Since I felt great and still had a lot left in the tank I decided to keep that pace.  I finished the 3 mile run with a new PR of 24:52 for 3 miles.  What a great feeling.

I still don't want to get overly excited about my times in practice as I have no idea how I will feel on race day, but when starting this journey towards my first tri, my only goal was to finish.  After several months of hard work I am now starting to get the feeling that I not only want to finish, but I want to crush the time that I have set in my head.   Still have to remain humble, but doing the bike and run course prior to the race really gave me some super confidence.