Okay. There is no money on the line. But I think I can compete in my AG at the upcoming tri. Or at least I could have last year looking at those results. Granted with my running club attending this year they'll bring the A-game. Regardless, looking at last year's times and seeing that I am close motivates me. I can even keep up on the bike if my early season sprint tri in Virginia is any indication. So I'm really excited to swim hard and get better. I learned today that swimming hard sucks the way running hard does. Revelation! I honestly have no idea if I'm swimming yards or meters in my pool, but I swam 14:48 for 750 (the distance of the swim in the race) either yards or meters. I hope that number goes down over the next couple of weeks. I also hope wearing a wetsuit makes me faster. The T1 transition times were really fast and I'm assuming people were wearing wetsuits so that is curious to me. I think it's going to be close in our age group. I can run faster than two of last year's top three, but two of them can swim faster (the quick runner is a slower swimmer than me). And all of the bike times are really close. So we'll see. (I like to do this if you'll remember...predict PRs and good times and then not get them :) At the very least it's good motivation to train hard and to remember on race day that seconds do count. I mean, if the same people show up we're all sooo evenly matched if you look at us overall in the three sports. Ohhhh, the agony of finishing out of placing by mere seconds. It HURTS!!
PS. I love this tri even though I've never been there b/c they gave me a full refund after my accident last year with nothing but good wishes to get better soon.
Sounds like you've got it all planned out!
Posted by: Stuart | June 24, 2009 at 12:47 AM
Go Audrey!! You are totally going to mix it up with those chicks. I think you will definitely swim faster in a race & wetsuit.
Posted by: barb | June 24, 2009 at 10:44 AM
goooooo Audrey! i can taste the hunger for victory in your words ;) you've got this!
Posted by: sara | June 25, 2009 at 11:53 AM
Goin' for hardware! Nice. I think it's time to bring home the Bacon!
Posted by: dcrainmaker | June 25, 2009 at 09:32 PM