First, I basically skipped the Super Saturday in Pittsburgh. It's not that I skipped going to the Pittsburgh area, but I decided I'd rather spend quality time with my family. So I did. It was a great weekend! It included celebrating my uncle's 75th birthday, watching my cousin's son play basketball, and a nice hilly run. Well there was one long downhill and a subsequent uphill.
Second, I successfully completed the 100 100s! Last year I had not been swimming much (hardly at all) and had to modify by using swim toys like fins and paddles and still was only able to swim 8650 total. This year I did the entire 100x100 plus 3 extra 100s at the end since in 2014 I did 100x100=1x100 and in 2015 I went 100x100+2x100. Next year I'll have to do 4 extra 100s!
Finally, this past Saturday I raced the Richmond Tri Club Sprint Triathlon! It was a fun event in a great venue with an indoor 'open water swim'! That's right - it was held in an Olympic size pool and it was a snake swim, but instead of turning at the wall, there was a buoy to go around. In fact, if you pushed off the wall you'd be DQd! They had weighted the end of the lane line down and attached the buoy. It was very cool!
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| This was a fun swim course! |
Anyway, I had a great race but my run could still use some work. However, I did actually run the entire 5k. The best part and surprise was snagging a spot on the age group podium!
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| I'm always thrilled to snag a podium spot! |
So this weekend is the highly anticipated uphill race, the Mt. Summit Challenge! My goals other than to finish smiling, is to first try to improve on the time from last year, and second, to run more of it. Bottom line is if I run more of it I should have a better time!
So 26 days out, and I'm getting very excited about racing 70.3 Choo!
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