Quote Originally Posted by spindizzy View Post
Colby-

You've had a most excellent season and your last race was fantastic. You should try to get your medal - it is an important memento of a great end-of-season effort.

I also have the utmost admiration for you gals that race in these races with 3,000+ people......I know this race had less - it must have felt very different for you.

Congratulations and don't forget to take a little well deserved break. (when is your marathon?)
3,000 people is REALLY different from 300, or even 900. I guess in the span of a season I've done everything from a race with 3000 people starting 100 at a time 3 minutes apart, to a race with 2200 people starting at once, to a race with only 300 people total starting within 5 minutes. The sport of triathlon is nothing if not interesting. I have raced 6.2 miles of swimming, 210 miles of riding, and 51 miles of running.

My marathon is November 29 - so, not much of a break as I'm transitioning pretty much immediately into fully-focused marathon-land, though I will lighten the running load for a week or so as I ramp up and will drop a couple of runs as long as can still ride my bike (focusing on 2-3 key workouts a week that I won't miss).

I also just put my 2010 Ironman training on the calendar... starts December 28. I really enjoy having that 3 weeks easy with all the holidays crap going on.

Thanks for all the well wishes, ladies. I'll check on the pictures when I get home tonight.