After IM CdA I wanted to keep my motivation up and not get the post IM blues so I signed up for a fun sprint race, the Dam '09 Tri. I've done this race once before and had a blast. You get to swim in a 50m pool:
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| Go Smash! |
Then you get to bike around Alamo Heights:
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| First race with my new (to me) aero helmet! |
And then run 2.4 miles along the baseball and soccer fields:
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| Wow, that hurt! |
My goal was to finish in under 1 hour. It has been a while since I've done a sprint race and I was really looking forward to see what kind of speed I had in me after all that long-distance IM training.
It turned out to be super fun and I met my goal and finished in 58:55...a mere 10 secs out of 3rd place in my AG! Ugh that stung but I was happy that some speed was there. It was during this race that I noticed how "off" my run seemed. I didn't feel like I had that extra gear and I'm sure this is where I lost the majority of my time. I was still thrilled to have cracked the 1 hour mark and enjoyed the mimosas after the race.
Next up after this was race Kerrville 70.3.
