travels, races, and other musings

At the Dilloman Triathlon Roger and I participated in a relay. I did the swim and Roger biked and ran. Being in the midst of crazy half-Ironman training, I didn't really want to push it and do another race. Plus, I'm always up for a swim and this gave Roger the opportunity to do another race without having to swim.  We arrived in good time at the site, parked, got body marked and set up transition. Which for me consisted of standing around and applying sunblock while Roger set his biking and running stuff up. We then milled around, waited in the port-a-potty line, then milled around a bit more before I sang the national anthem. Saturday was my first time ever singing the national anthem at an event. (I sang it at the offroad Dilloman the day before). On Sunday I felt more confident about it and sang it even better than I had Saturday (which is good because there were a lot more people).  After singing, I waited around for my wave. The relays were going with a wave o

This morning at The Austin Triathlon I had a great race. I exceeded my expectations, inexplicably set a 10k PR on the run portion of the race and best of all, I had a really good time! This was technically my first olympic distance triathlon. Lone Star Triathlon in April was sort of olympic - it was a quarter Ironman, which is close, but not technically, specifically olympic (aka "international") distance. CapTexTri in May was to be my first olympic, but alas, it was cancelled due to weather. (Something I'm still bummed about - almost more so after having such a good time today.) Pre-Race Roger was volunteering so he headed down early. I left about an hour later with Dad and Kip in tow. This was the first time anyone in my family had seen me race. We arrived at the site where I was bodymarked by Cam, then I set up my stuff. They decided to shorten the distance between waves so I started a little after 7:20 instead of 7:35. At around 7, made my final potty stop and ch