Cranberry Tri 2012

Hola!!!!  Yes I have been in the missing again...What is new with that?? I am so psyched with what all this training is doing for my waist line....LOL.....Love this dress....Love the way my butt and tummy looks...Thank God for SPANKY's.....Ladies I know you know what that is but most of the GUYS will not have a clue....

OK..... so now on to the race report!

Today was the Cranberry Olympic Triathlon......

     IT WAS GREAT!!!!!!!

Yesterday I was hurting all day with a giant knot and pain after a night of Charlie Horses in my right calf...OUCHHHH...

The day started out interesting at 4 am, as I crawled out of bed...and you are thinking why 4 am for an 8 am race 45 minutes away????

Cause yesterday morning, I received a text at 7 am that was telling me I was schedule for the SPRINT not the OLY.  I could of SWORN I registered for the OLY.. Thank God I have great friends, one of them being,   Leslie Battle  www.facebook.com/leslie.battle.3  She talked to the race director and told them that I thought I was registered for the OLY and told me to just get there early this am...so guess what I was doing at 5 am this morning?????

just thought I throw this picture in cause I love this shirt!

Yes driving to Lakeville, MA...it was 58/60 degrees,,,of course no doors or windows on jeep so I bundle myself up in my tri-suit and sweats pants and jacket and cranked the heat...I know you are thinking but there are no doors or windows... but the heat cranks out and it keep my feet and lower legs and my hands warm......I am sure the truckers who were on the road at 5 am all thought who is this NUT driving 80 MPH, all bundled up and a bike hanging out in the back of her Jeep!!!!!

I had an awesome race...I am so grateful for my coach...her training plan helped me to improve so much....COACH TARA.  I am planning on being out there for about 4 hours, so here is the day!

So register and go back to Jeep to get gear...Get over to the rack and set up the transition...hang out for a while with the  TRI-NE Team...wet suit on and ready to go...a delay in the start of the race of about 15 minutes secondary to the fog. So I take a short swim to warm up.

I was in wave 7....watching the others go off I am shaking and shivering...Yes I am freezing, it is 77 degrees out and the water was 75 or so but here I am teeth chattering and trying to stay warm and hopping in place...My team mates giving me a little jiving for it..all in good fun...

Into the water:  just keep swimming~~just keep swimming.  Not a bad swim, had to try to swim around a couple people, I was one on one with one lady for most of the swim..then I left her behind in the last few yards...there were areas that were EXTREMELY shallow water in spots..so shallow if I stood up it would of been lower then knee level...I just switch to breaststroke and kicked off with my feet several times.  I also skinned the bottom of my left great toe doing it..but it had a callous on it and that took care of it!

Out of the water, in 32:54...YEAHHHHHHH  0.9 miles of swimming

Up the slippery stairs, trying to to get run over by the others who were trying to get up the stairs as well...Into T1...strip wet suit, grab bike gear and get it all on...bike off rack and head to bike out...jump on bike and go NOWHERE...why you ask...chain is jammed in derailed....I am SO PISSED!!!  I could not get it out, All I am thinking is that I am wasting time!  Finally got it out and reset correctly...Lesson learned DOUBLE and TRIPLE check the BIKE before leaving it on the rack...I had ridden a few minutes before racking it...out of T1 in 4:23....

The bike route I had ridden several times last year as well as part of it ALOT while training for the Patriots Half Iron..I feel really good on the ride..passing some and fighting to catch others....I am so happy to see a couple of people and play "tag" with them on the bike....  Bike DONE: 26.5 Miles in 1:27:32.  YES..Legs feel Good but heavy.

Off with bike shirt (gotta show off the tattoo you know!) switch shoes and hats.....T2 was 2:24....
Running out the shoot I realize I had left my Garmin on my bike...this irritates me so much I throw my headphones and my watch band to Melissa...(great catch and thanks, Sparky)!

Out to the road to TROT.....6.2 miles of one foot in front of the other...It is warm and I feel pretty good...Lots of good support out there..run with a couple of different people...cause we all know I like to talk...at mile 5 there is a HILL..One I do not even like on the Bike..but I make it up and then there is the DOWNHILL....I love the DownHill......just glide down and keep going.....

Finally I can see the park and I know it is a quick trot to the shoot to run to the FINISH LINE....  We round the fields and I can see the shoot...I pick up my pace and stretch out my torso (to make sure the pictures look good of course!!!) I am almost there and then I DROP a water bottle off my belt..UGHHH  DANG NAB IT *^$^%$^&$^%^%^%$^% and a few other choice words go off in my head.   Forget it, I am not stopping for it, I am feet from the line (someone else picked it up for me and gave it to Melissa for me).

I CROSS THE FINISH LINE...YAHOOOOOO.....

OK we all know how I am about wanting to know my data...which is why i wear a garmin, even if I do not check it while working out..which is my I find this so funny: I was so happy to finish and my right calf was burning so bad that all I could think of was ICE BATH.... I head over to the pools of ice water and soak my feet and legs.  After sitting there for a few minutes I finally look up a the finishers clock  it reads 3:42..No way...NO WAY......7th wave and 4 minutes between waves and not sure how long I was sitting in the ice bath before I looked up at the clock...So I waited to see my time....Wait for it....yes wait for it......

  *****3:14:11......Yes I did the OLY in 3:14:11  that was more then 30 minutes faster then I thought I would.   I had given myself between 3:45 to 4 hours to finish....

THANK YOU TO ALL OF TRI NE AND THE CRANBERRY TRIFEST!!!!

So a great day all around!!!

NOW ALL OF YOU GET OUT THERE CAUSE YOU CAN::::::