I am happy to say that this year this race went much much better then last year. I was feeling pretty good in the morning and warming up my legs felt great. I had done a pretty tough workout on Tuesday that week and my legs had been feeling pretty sore the whole week until race morning.
The weather was chilly 54 cold degrees! Starting out on the swim the water temp was warmer then the air temp which was not a surprise. I felt pretty strong on the swim but was extremely cold. My feet and arms were pretty numb coming out of the water and I knew that the bike would just be colder with the air temp being so low. Swim time 28:41 (2min faster then last year!)
It took me a while to get going the bike because my muscles were soo cold. I never did warm up on the bike too much but I was feeling fairly strong despite all the hills on this course. I didn't drink much of eat anything on the bike as I wanted to because my hands were so numb I could not really squeeze the water bottle into my mouth. Final bike time 1:08 (almost a 5min PR from last year) 21.9 average speed.
Now came the run. I did remember this run course a bit from last year. Again I was so cold that coming into T2 it took me a while to get my shoes on and I decided to not wear socks simply because I could not put them on. The run went well. It took about 2.5 miles for my feet to 'defrost' then I was good. I felt a lot stronger on the second part of the run compared to the first half. This was also true for the bike. Final run time 43:40 (7:04 pace) same time as last year. I was hoping for sub 7 and was a bit disappointed with my run time (thought I was going faster).
Overall 2nd place, the impressively talented Kortney Haag took first! 7min PR from last year, I can't really complain and I felt so much better compared to last year.
The weather was chilly 54 cold degrees! Starting out on the swim the water temp was warmer then the air temp which was not a surprise. I felt pretty strong on the swim but was extremely cold. My feet and arms were pretty numb coming out of the water and I knew that the bike would just be colder with the air temp being so low. Swim time 28:41 (2min faster then last year!)
It took me a while to get going the bike because my muscles were soo cold. I never did warm up on the bike too much but I was feeling fairly strong despite all the hills on this course. I didn't drink much of eat anything on the bike as I wanted to because my hands were so numb I could not really squeeze the water bottle into my mouth. Final bike time 1:08 (almost a 5min PR from last year) 21.9 average speed.
Now came the run. I did remember this run course a bit from last year. Again I was so cold that coming into T2 it took me a while to get my shoes on and I decided to not wear socks simply because I could not put them on. The run went well. It took about 2.5 miles for my feet to 'defrost' then I was good. I felt a lot stronger on the second part of the run compared to the first half. This was also true for the bike. Final run time 43:40 (7:04 pace) same time as last year. I was hoping for sub 7 and was a bit disappointed with my run time (thought I was going faster).
Overall 2nd place, the impressively talented Kortney Haag took first! 7min PR from last year, I can't really complain and I felt so much better compared to last year.
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