My race: not so good. It started with a jelly fish sting during the swim in Biscayne Bay, where I freaked out, felt like I was drowning in jelly fish. Then my poor attitude brought me onto the bike. Since I was one of the first waves out, there were packs of 50 people (mostly guys, with maybe one girl hanging on for dear life), whizzing by me in an oh so illegal drafting way. No one yells or whistles to let you know they're coming, so then I started to get mad and may or may not have yelled at a few people. It was a killer headwind going out, and an awesome tailwaind on the way back! The aide stations on the bike were on the left side, which was something new and challenging since I'm right handed. My goal was to get off the bike before Steve did, he passed me with 1 mile to go. He yelled something nice to me, and I think I just groaned because I was so let down with myself. Then I felt bad and tried to catch up to him, HA, that was short lived!
Then the run, where my HR may have been in the low end of Z1, it was terrible. The run course was kind of set up weird. It was like a little maze sometimes, with aide stations not coming soon enough! Made a stop in the potties 3 times. Sometimes, it's just not your day. I met a 22 year old girl from Boston who was also not having the day she expected to have and we ran the last 10 miles together. Thank goodness we found each other, made those 10 miles go by relatively pain free.
Steve on the other hand had a FANTASTIC race! He had a HUGE 17 minute PR and went 4:53!!!! He did outstanding and I was soooo, sooo happy for him. He had a GREAT swim, huge bike and solid run. His hard work leading into this race paid off, and it paid off big time!
Post race, we had a great night with 6 other QT2ers, we all met in our hotel bar, had a few adult beverages and yucked it up. Then we went to dinner where I ordered way more than I could ever think about eating! Let the off season begin!
We got some new tats, drank some beers and relaxed!
Now it's time to enjoy some time off, eat, drink and be merry (DMB reference).
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