Race Results

[threadwalker]

Results are up!!! I was 2:17 (hr/min). Take the flat out, and I come close to making my estimated time goal of 2 hrs... and that's including the transitions. Yay! (link to race below; I'm #569)

With tire blow out, riding 2 miles on a flat, and getting my road-side heroes to change my flat, I was #354 overall and #26 in my age group! I was less than 30 seconds behind the person who beat me! Without the flat I might have placed in the #250-280 range overall and in the top 15 in my age group! Knock me over with a feather!

SCREAM!!!!

Hell yeah I'm doing this again!!!!

The boss was about 15 minutes ahead of me. Holy Cow! Take that flat out of the picture and I was hot on his heals... I'm totally thinking rematch! And on the heals of that thought, telling myself to settle down and do some training. He did beat me by 5 minutes on the run... how the hell did that happen? Hmm.. oh right! I was training to fail. New training plan AND I'm armed with a new book as of last night on tris for women... Rawr! I'm already reading it. Muh-ha-ha...

Ho-boy! I'm totally jiggy!

What's worse than a flat tire? a flat tire and fire ants
And in other race tid-bits, here's a bike story: Everyone is cheery on the bike leg, calling out encouragement, exchanging greetings, etc. Apparently my utter excitement and cheeriness at being in the race had me marked as a noob; best reason ever to be noted for being a noob would be eagerness, right? I met Lana on the bike leg and she was very nice and encouraging; she was convinced I'd be hooked like her. When I mentioned my flat and how lucky I felt that the 2-mile road-side heroes helped me, she shared her most recent Triathlon in South Caroline: she got 2 flats and on one of them she knelt in a fire-ant nest. She got bit right away and was very uncomfortable for the rest of the race.

Me: Dang! You win!

And there she was, pedalling along, encouraging me, and congratulating me when I passed her. There's some awesome sportsmanship! I love the triathlon crowd - nothing but encouraging and welcoming!

http://www.envirosports.com/results/event/2192/results.php

Comments

[joycebre.livejournal.com]

that's so great! I thought it was great that you finished, but 26th in your age group with a flat? you rock. I know you'll get 15th in your next tri.

[thread-walker.livejournal.com]

I'm having a hard time focusing at work. All I can think about is racing, training and nutrition. I was browsing www.trifind.com and trying to decide if I should race every month or every other month since some of the sprints seem relatively small... I'm totally addicted!!

And this same course is being raced again in October.... It's so tempting... just to see if I can improve my own times... temptation is low hanging fruit

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

That's *excellent*! I'm very impressed.

[thread-walker.livejournal.com]

thank you! I'm kind of overwhelmed, too