travels, races, and other musings

Ever since I had an incredibly good race at The Austin Triathlon in 2007, I've been wanting to go back and take another crack at it. All things considered, everything went very well today and I had a good race. It's really really hard to compare my performance now to that of three years ago and not be a twinge disappointed. It was basically the same course (slightly different run) and I was about 15 minutes faster overall three years ago. I was training for a half Ironman at the time, though and I was super in shape and just had a crazy good day that day. What can you do? For where I am now as an athlete (and a mom) I'm really happy with my race this year. Pre-Race I got up early and headed down to the race site and Roger and Emmaline slept in a bit and came down later and met up with me. I arrived a few minutes later than I wanted and then left my wetsuit in the car so I had to run back (luckily I hadn't made it too far from the car). When I arrived I had about 20 m