W/e race reports....

[salsabike]

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/sports...date=8/17/2008

[KnottedYet]

Hooray hooray hooray for all of you!!!!

[Wahine]

Yippee!! I'm soooooooooooo proud of you girls!!

I can't wait to see some pics.

Dex - you are an Ironperson in the making, at that distance it's all about how much pain you can put up with and you proved today that you can put up with a lot.

Deena - you did the swim and you weren't in over your head so to speak!! I can't remember the exact name - Speedo John or something - whatever, I want you to seek him out and tell him how well you did. Well, only if you want too, but I would.

Teigyr - You did fantastic, great times on the run and the bike!!

[Wahine]

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/sports...date=8/17/2008

Photo 10, the girl on the far right is a good friend of mine from here in the Gorge.

Oh and now that I scroll along, I see that she won.

Now you guys know what motivates me... about once a week I get my butt kicked by her.

[teigyr]

I saw that she lived down in Oregon!!! The winner of the tri, that is. Doesn't she look relaxed and non-sweaty? There are some incredible athletes in the Gorge.

It was nice seeing all different levels at this tri. SO many people pushed beyond their normal boundaries and it was very inspiring.

[rocknrollgirl]

Wow you guys, that is a huge race. I cannot even imagine. WOW!
Congrats on finishing you first race. That is terrific!!!!!

[Skeezix]

rocknrollgirl Congrats to you and your friend. I'm glad your evil plan to create a tri buddy worked. I've finally gotten a friend to do her first tri but she lives in Wisconsin, so no in-person training for us. Wah!
Good job to whomever was your photographer, they got a ton of good shots of you guys!


teigyr, salsabike, Dex Bravo! Especially on competing in such a large field! I love the photos from the Seattle paper, everyone looks so happy and excited! I can't wait to see your photos.

[rocknrollgirl]

Photographer is my very handsome DH!!!! He does a great job.

[HillSlugger]

I raced yesterday in the North East Maryland sprint triathlon. Couldn't have asked for nicer weather: mid 60's at start and still nicely cool for the bike and run. Unfortunately, the water was 0.8F too high to allow wetsuits.

It's amazing how comparing ourselves to others can make us dismiss our accomplishments. In yesterday's triathlon I finished 6/10AG and was a bit disappointed because I felt I had raced pretty well. However, when I compared myself to the overall standings instead I did rather well:

* Swim: 6/10AG, 67/178F
* T1: 4/10AG, 38/178F
* Bike: 5/10AG, 32/178F
* T2: 4/10AG, 46/178F
* Run: 8/10AG, 80/178F
* Total: 6/10AG, 45/178F

My OA results are something to be proud of: my bike was damn good (as others b!tched about how hard it was I thought it wasn't bad at all) and my run time was a triathlon run PB; I'm just in a very competitive AG!
It's kinda disappointing that my tri season is likely done.

[kelownagirl]

I had a great first race! I really enjoyed the morning and tried to do my best. My swim was good - I wasn't freaked out and I had a better time than planned. My bike was awesome and I exceeded my goals there too. My run was disappointing, about 2 minutes slower than I had hoped, but I was at my max and couldn't have gone any faster. The transition area was a long way from the swim so it was tough to be any faster on T1, but I missed my spot in T2 and had to back track which cost me about 30 seconds. I loved the bike - I passed 29 women and a lot of men who had started in a wave 10 minutes earlier. What a rush!! If had met my transition and run goals, I would have placed but was it was I was extremely giddy to do as well as I did. Yahoo - I wanna do another!!

(Interesting to note, there was a 54% increase in participants this year. My overall time would have given me a first place in my age group by 7 minutes! last year. The 1st and 2nd place women in my AG were amazingly fast and actually came in 4th and 9th overall and were 16-18 minutes faster than me - yikes!)

Swim - 17:13 - 5/11 AG - 55/113 overall
T1 - 3:01 - 6/11 AG - 73/113
Bike - 38:18 - 3/11 AG - 16/113
T2 - 1:49 - 6/11 AG - 88/113
Run - 29:45 - 7/11 AG - 77/113

Overall: 1:30:04 - 4/11 AG - 55/113

I have pictures on my blog.