Today was the last of 7 Tri’s I did this summer. In the middle Tennessee area, the season has come to a quick close. There are several more Tri’s around the country through out the year, but they are mostly in the warmer climates.
This past season has been a lot of fun for me. I appreciate all of the emails, texts, facebook messages and phone calls from all of you who have been tracking my progress over the past year and even more with this past summer. Your encouragement means the world to me and helps me to keep going. And keep going I will.
Next on the agenda is prepping for a marathon in November. Shortly there after I will officially start training for the Louisville Ironman with a coach. I have little goals I want to meet along the way as well with these events so again…I’m looking forward to the process.
As for today’s race…I’m not going to sugar coat this one. It was tough. Why? Well it seems that Ike’s weather fingers made it our way today with wind gust of 35 to 40 mph…so…just try to image what that looks like on a lake. The water was so rough that the bouy markers used to tell us where we are and where to turn for the mile swim where breaking away and floating off. Not to mention people where getting pulled from the water because the water was too rough to swim in. They had let about 25% of the racers start swimming before they called off the swim portion. Once those swimmers came back on shore and the race official got plan b figure out, we were off for a new start. Jump on your bikes, then do the run. ok…so at this point it seems good because we are down to just the two sports…remember the choppy waters from the wind? Well the wind didn’t stop there. There were times when i was on my bike and I thought i was literally going to fall off my bike from the wind knocking me over. I was leaning into the wind while going 25mph so i could stay on my bike…it was frustrating.
Once the bike was done the run started off great until my knee started giving me fits which slowed me way way down…
In the end…i’m so glad I did it and I’m thankful that I could have the summer I’ve had.
It’s been a great summer…now onto the rest of the show…
09/14/2008
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