The race took place in South Boston, which is about 5 miles from my place. Of course the train is too awkward to take there, so I bike there early in the morning (yeah i know, it's over half the actual bike part of the race). This entails biking through the sketchy neighborhood of Dorchester. First, this guy with a girl in his car creepily drives right next to me and just looks at me for a while. awkward. then I had a green light and an open road (its early on a sunday) and someone decided to cut me off by turning right in front of me to an outside lane. thanks masshole!!!!!!
Anyways, it was a fun race. My friend was doing her first one so it was great to be there with her. The swim was...pleasant. it was super calm (unlike rhode island). i felt like i was just ...cruising. but not really going anywhere because i have swam once in a month haha. but somehow i managed to be first woman out of the water and came in about the same time as last year. i am pretty sure i was way off course though and did more bc i have no idea how to swim straight without a buoy.
the bike was a 2 loop course (the same as last year). this was kinda fun bc there was definitely a wind...so it was really nice going down...i felt like i was flying...but then hard on the way back. I ended up averaging just over 20 mph, which is really good for me! my quads were kind of dead though. Oh, and i saw someone riding a fold up bike. hardcore.
The run...a little of the same as the bike with some wind for part of it. I started out "slower" but then was hauling and felt good at the end. ended up averaging 7:57 min/mile, which was ok...i feel like i could have been faster. but it was faster than last year (went over 8:30 min/mile). the sand finish was rough. i wanted to throw off my shoes. by the way, went sockless again cycling and running. i like it a lot. total time was like 1 hour 13 min...something. the afterparty was fun with beer and free stuff! i got 3rd in my age group, 6th overall woman. technically i got awarded 1st in my age group bc there were separate awards for top 3 women (2 were in my age group). so i kind of got first but not really. haha. whatever
Overall a really fun race. i didn't expect to be racing, but hey whatever!
Anyways....I am still in physical therapy...but i am expecting to be done soon. my back is so much stronger...but swimming manages to hurt it. lets avoid swimming :P
train hard! next up= a kind of olympic in pa sept 11th.
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first place award what what what!
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