9.9.17 Super Saturday!

Ugh--not only sore foot but a little more pre-race drama than I'd hoped. Rover and I arrived in one piece in Chattanooga but I somehow managed to get either food poisoning or a 24-hour bug on Thursday and spent much of that day throwing up or trying not to. Yesterday I managed to get some food down but definitely not my usual pre-race feeding! Really worried I wouldn't be able to start as just setting up my bike and gear bags yesterday almost did me in, but I felt better this morning and did manage to finish the race. I had a strong bike (not sure about the swim--it was super slow, but not sure how much was me and how much the fact that almost half of it was upriver against the current); the run was somewhat of a painful, under-fueled death march but I pretty much knew that going into it and just focused on the bike. Not the placing I had hoped (120th out of about 200) but it was a beautiful, if brutal course and amazing experience.