The following weekend we drove down to a very hot and humid
Charleston so Marty could do the Low Country Splash. We stayed at a house with the Honnold clan
and enjoyed the beach and downtown Charleston. I’ll be returning there for the
4th to meet up with some college friends – can’t wait for that!
The training front was fairly non-existent that 2nd
week after the Triple T. I was not ever very sore from the races, but I was
incredibly tired. And that lasted for longer than I expected. It was around
this time that I told Marty I didn’t think I wanted to do the Three Little Pigs
race on June 17th. I’ve done
it a couple of times, and although it is a fun, short sprint, it’s also usually
very hot and I wasn’t feeling like I wanted to suffer through that,
particularly with how rotten I was feeling on the fitness front at that point
in time. I had signed up early for a
bargain basement price so didn’t feel that bad about not doing it.
The next week I started feeling better, but still wasn’t
planning on racing. Truth be told, work had been very busy and stressful (I
have taken a new internal position and the learning curve has been fast and
steep) and thinking about training and racing was at the bottom of my list. I
was enjoying my usual group workouts and hanging out with Logan and Marty and
friends on the weekend.
The week of Three Little Pigs rolled around and we knew
a ton of people doing it. The forecast looked unusually awesome for this time
of year. Then the last straw, Whit said
he’d be happy to watch Logan during the race as he’d be there watching their 3
kids. I had no more excuses and decided
to go have fun, go as hard as I could on that day, and enjoy it all.
This is the best race to bring kids to. They have a big
playground next to transition, a bounce house, lots of sidewalk chalk, free
sno-cones, and after the race they open their kiddie pool which is awesome.
It’s a pool swim seeded start and my ‘time’ (which was a
lie) had me going in 21st place.
This was unfortunately around 2min behind Carrie so chances of seeing
her were slim. The whole thing would’ve been so much more fun if we had been
able to start near each other. Anyways,
everything was fine. I knew I needed to
have lickety-split transitions and at the end of the day, that’s how I
won. Had Carrie had equal transitions,
we would’ve been only seconds apart. As it was, I ended up 30 seconds ahead of
her. But she doesn’t have nearly the sprint tri experience like I do. I did
give her all of my secrets that evening so expect her transitions to be fast
from now on.
Very quick race report:
I swam comfortable because the pool swims always seem to
suck and I didn’t want to crush myself to get an extra few seconds. I probably over-biked a little and paid for it
the last mile of the run, but all in all it was a very tough race as I knew
Carrie is super fast and wasn’t going to give up. Marty had a solid day and finished second
overall so we both got our big bad wolf trophies for another year. Logan had a
blast with the Hughston’s, as usual, and then he legit swam in the kiddie pool
after the race.
Here are random pictures to make this more interesting.
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Logan and I had a picnic in a local park after work one day |
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Waiting for daddy at the Low Country Splash. It was HOT and we waited a very long time. Logan did awesome. |
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We went to the Aquarium in Charleston |
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One of these is not like the other |
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Sometimes we spill our breakfast all over the place |
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Silly faces on Father's Day |
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Slaying dragons at Dave & Buster's |
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With their matching t-shirts Logan made |
1 comment:
Congrats again on your win at 3LP!
Any chance you'd be willing to share your transitions secrets with other people too (like me)? O:-)
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