Big Races This Weekend

[Veronica]

Go Colby! You are an Iron Chick!

Go Susan! You have worked so hard for this HIM. You are going to rock!


Anyone else racing this weekend?

I'm doing a sprint tri on Sunday. It's the same course as the other sprints I've done. Although the swim may be longer than in those. It will be the first time I've taken the Cervelo on that course and I'm hoping to see some improvement in the bike time.

Veronica

[kacie tri-ing]

Yes! It is a huge weekend! I am thinking really good thoughts for everyone!!

I am doing a 5k open water swim sunday. It was a huge challenge last year, so I decided to give it a shot again this year. My overall fitness it much higher, but I am worried about the....well, length of the swim! It is not a very well marked course either, so you end up swimming farther than just 5K (at least I did last year!).

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!!!

[rocknrollgirl]

I am doing a mt bike race on Sunday.

Good Luck to all of you. I look forward to your race reports!!!!!

[OakLeaf]

Good luck everyone racing this weekend!

If you hit a low point in your races, listen really closely and you can hear us all rooting for you!

[colby]

Wow, it looks like there are a TON of races this weekend of all shapes and sizes!

Regarding the 5k swim - a local swim team is putting on an open water swim sometime this summer, with varying distances. Something like 1k, 3k, 5k, and 10k! Holy crap, a 10k swim!! 5k sounds doable (albeit a little crazy).

Good luck to everyone who is racing this weekend. Time to be awesome!!

Swim with guts, bike with courage, run with heart, finish with a smile?

[Eden]

Good luck and good weather to my teammate and anyone else doing the IM Coeur D'Alene.

[divingbiker]

Yes, lots of luck to Colby and Susan.

I'm doing a sprint on Sunday also, the same course as the two Irongirls I've done, but this one is coed. I've been sick all week, so it should be interesting.

MDHillSlug is doing the bike leg of a relay in the same sprint.

[kacie tri-ing]

Can't wait to hear Susan!

I will post about my race a little later too! Great improvement from last year!

Does anyone know Colby's number??? I just got home, and I would love to see where she is in the race right now!

[Veronica]

You can follow her on Twitter. http://twitter.com/colbinator.

Her number is 2185, I think based on one of the pics.

Veronica

[kacie tri-ing]

Thank you! She's doing great!!!

TOTAL SWIM 2.4 mi. (1:38:00) 2:34/100m
T1: SWIM-TO-BIKE 11:59
TOTAL BIKE: 112 mi 112 mi. (6:50:53) 16.36 mph
RUN SPLIT 1: 0.9 mi 0.9 mi (9:22) 10:24/mi

GO COLBY!!!!!!

[Susan Otcenas]

I just checked her twitter feed. There's a photo of her running and she's wearing the Team Estrogen "She Loves Hills" jersey designed by Urlea. That is so cool.

[kacie tri-ing]

I thought that was great too! I also love her "monkey shoes"

[Susan Otcenas]

I thought that was great too! I also love her "monkey shoes"

I know people are huge fans of those things, but I simply can not fathom the beating a person's feet must take after 26 miles in them. My feet could never take it.

[kacie tri-ing]

Yeah colby!!!!!!!

[colby]

Thank you ladies!! As I mentioned in the running forum a second ago, it was too warm for me after not having a lot of warm days - we had a long spring of many 60 degree days, few 70 degree days, and maybe one or two 80 degree days which were too late in my training to train distance in. I think a HIM would have been survivable at this temperature, but a full was too hard on me.

Based on my heart rate and comparing last year to this year, I easily could have cut off another 45-60+ minutes off of EACH of my bike and run times had it not been for all the taking it easy I did on the bike and walking I did on the run. I just wanted to persevere, and not be one of those people that looked like walking death, or was curled up from dehydration, or barfing in the grass, or had to have IV fluids.

I had at least a couple of compliments on the jersey, which I rode in and ran the second loop of the run in (after the shade settled in - I had to take it off on the first loop and carry it). Obviously I finished in it. It was light colored, fits well, I can reach the pockets, and it didn't chafe at all. Three thumbs up.

And, I was told I was the 4th "barefoot" finisher.

I will put up more of a report later. Time for eating... sleeping... aloe on my sunburn... or something. I'm not really sure which.