SBCTFS RR

Does the title make sense? It's short for "Susan Bradley-Cox Tri for Sight Race Report" and I guess I didn't really save much time now that I had to type what that acronym was short for, ha.

Anyways, yesterday was the annual Triathlon here in Lexington which is always a great race. Beth and Eric both spend a lot of time making sure that it is a great race. They receive numerous compliments every year about how well ran the event is and how safe everyone feels on the course. This year they even changed the bike course a little to make it safer.

I woke up yesterday morning and decided I would try something new for breakfast before a race. I had some oatmeal with a cup of coffee and my morning serving of FRS. I got the car packed up and I headed down to the transition area. It always nice to eat breakfast at home and sleep in your own bed the night before a race. After setting up my transition area and a little run warmup, I was ready to roll. I was fourth in the water since it was a swim seaded start in a pool swim. We had to snake our way down the pool to get in our 800 meters of swimming. I took off and just didn't feel like I was catching much water. I haven't felt good in the water for about a month now. I don't know what the problem is, but hopefully it will get better before Augusta here in 2 weeks. Anyways, I passed the guy who started immediately in front of me pretty fast, and then had the pool almost to myself for the rest of the swim. I was too far behind Dave K and Kevin R. to catch them and I had a big gap on the guys behind me. I came out of the water in third position and sprinted to the transition area. Kevin is injured right now so I knew he was only doing the swim, so I just needed to chase down Dave. Had a good transition and took off on my first race on my Mercury Trident bike. I got rolling early and was really making up some ground quick. I caught Dave about 5 - 6 miles into the race and then opened up a gap on my way back on the bike. I felt great and got some good encouragement around the 14 mile mark from some of my kids on the swim team, which was nice. And apparently they were making fun of Dave because he used to coach them. Dave told me they yelled, "Dave, Tony is killing you." to Dave when he went by on the bike, haha. Anyways, I went into T2 with a pretty big gap and took off on the run looking to run pretty fast. I kept a pretty good tempo the whole run and I came across the finish line in first place. I ended up running just under 22 minutes for the 4 mile course. Unfortunately, it was the slowest I've ever ran on that course (which I didn't realize until I checked old results last night). I did feel good on the run and I had the fastest bike split in the race so that is always great news. I'm hoping to keep this fitness going into Augusta 70.3 and that I can feel a little better on the swim.

Results can be found at:

http://www.besttimescct.com/results/Sight09.txt

Til next time.

Tony