Just an Average SKIRT

Both BJ and I won our age groups yesterday at the Tri for Your Cause along with two Chipolte burrito gift cards.  Not sure if it was my best race as I had a few technical difficulties but for whatever reason I ended up being the best of the 35-39 females. It does help that the top two ladies in my age group were bumped out as they were overall winners which put me in 1st place.

My final times:
500M swim: 7:39
17 mile bike: 55:04
3.1 mile run: 27:27

Things that I learned:
1) Trust your husband when he says your gearing is fixed because trust in a marriage is so much more important than having your big gears in a race.  Let’s just say I did the whole ride as one big ass Spin Up drill

2) Make sure the knots in your laces are double because they will come undone

3) You can run with one eye open and one eye filled with bugs

4) Don’t crank your heart rate monitor as tight as it will go the morning of a race, it will prevent you from breathing and then you will need to take it off .25 miles into the run and carry it the whole way

5) Even though you feel like it’s not your best race, you may still be the best

Great day, lots of fun, a few difficulties to spice up the adventure and an age group win!  Go me!

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