Skip to main content

Ad Astra 70.3 September 10, 2017

Our last race before the big one!!! I feel very pleased over all with how it went. The swim was of course my favorite. I was playing a game of "finding nemo" I called the yellow buoys "blow fish" if they were round and sharks if they were triangle...I swam along trying to get past those and "find nemo" the orange buoy at the turn! i also tangled a bit with one guy who was by my side for a long time and finally said...finish him!! Sweep the leg Johnny! and got past him. I came out of the water in 34 minutes and was greeted by a guy on the shore that said i was the 4th woman out of the water!! YES! my transistion was kinda slow...over 2 mins but I got on my bike and got ready to face the hilliest course known to man! these hills are just brutal...not rollers where you can get momentum coming down and then fly up the other side...ooooh no!! these are down adn then flat and then straight up!!! i started to name them on my way..."mother dick" "fml" "son of a bitch" "FC" etc etc.
on one turn we had a "false flat" I literally couldn't get over 11 mph. i thought i had a flat or that i was dying or something was going on with my bike! it was ridiculous! finally when we turned around there i was able to fly a bit with a tail wind. on the water stop I was able to take a water and fill my front water bottle without stopping. Eventually Lynn caught up to me, but i lead a long long way before that! I didnt' lose her either. i was able to keep up and we came into transition about the same time. We were able to run the long and hot run together. Did NOT love the gravel part which was all in the sun and hilly and slanted...hard on the legs!! We stopped to walk at most of the water stops, but were able to keep going around the 4 loops. in the last loop Estella caught us and we all ran it in together for an Ironhawk finish!!! Pretty cool! I felt pretty good except for my hip on the bike, but i think that was from a lot of pulling on the hills!!!  Now begins the ultimate ramp up to Ironman!! I felt a lot like this was a big challenge and that I was able to feel more comfortable and to know that with our continued practice I am totally going to do this!! I felt like my nutrition was on par too! YAY!! the coolest part...i finished 1st in my age group with a time of 6:21. I think thats my best half iron to date!! Lynn also finished 1st in her age group and so did Eunice. We had a great time riding to and from with Eunice. That lady cracks me up! she is AWESOME! Michelle finished 1st in her AG in the olympic and Caryn got 2nd in her AG. Estella finished 3rd in her AG in the 70.3

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The beginning of the LONG ones...

Yesterday marked our 1st OWS that is the full distance of ironman!! I didn't wear my full wet suit becuz it was just too hot, but i did wear my lava pants. I felt so good and strong! I was super stoked! i was able to do 4000 meters and didn't have to stop at all. I took a honey stinger gel before I started and it helped a lot. It was super choppy coming back but I was able to swim it without a problem. I did have to pee half way and had to take a tiny slow down to be able to pee. LOL. Estella and I then ran our 6 miles. It was pretty brutal but luckily the temp went down and we did it together. afterwards we went to the store and got our supplies for Today's big ride!! Today started out awesome. The weather was cool, the wind was low. We did the route that mimics our IMAZ route. The loop goes to Fremont and by the time we got to Fremont, the wind had picked up so the stretch on Old HWY 275 was a full on head wind. It was tough, but i was able to keep it at between 14 and
Post a Comment
Read more
As of yesterday 8/19/2017, we are looking at exactly 90 days left of this journey! I know the next 3 months are going to be some of the hardest work of my racing life so far, so I decided it would be a good idea to do some journaling about the journey. This journey officially began last year in November when Lynn, Estella and I signed up to be volunteers at the IMAZ 2016 race in Tempe, AZ. We worked in the women's changing tent after the swim portion of the race. WoW! what an experience! I learned so much, saw so much and gained a lot of confidence about doing this race...now 3 months to go...not sure I know as much as I thought I did, but i'm learning for sure!! We started our training in Jan of this year with our coach Brad Hildebrandt. Since then, we have worked on swim techniques and bike techinques...i've definitely gotten faster on my swim...not so sure about the bike. I started this out on a Tri bike...went back to my road bike and then bought a completely new roa
Post a Comment
Read more

last masters before go time

I got my butt up the last 2 mornings for early morning workouts! yesterday to run 5 with Caryn, Estella and Lana...and today for my last masters. I swam with Katie today and we had quite the crash when we forgot if we were circle swimming or not. oops! both were fine though. lol. she was encouraging about my race and told me to buy everything! hee hee. i plan to!! :) it was about 2300. Craig wished me good luck, which was cool and I saw Brad. Just one more week..9 days to be exact! can't believe how close we are getting. we had our get together meeting with Lisa Martone, Kris Story, Lana and caryn last night to talk about special needs bags and just ironman in general. It was really helpful. Plus really nice to see them all and have a couple of drinks. I have my moments of nerves, but so far so good. mostly i'm just stressed about leaving while Mom is so sick and not eating anything...which makes me feel so guilty and sad. I know she will be ok though. we will have "ey
Post a Comment
Read more