Sorry about a lack of posts lately, I've been in Illinois visiting family and it's been pretty hectic.
The biggest news is last weekend's Hy-Vee triathlon and today's 5K run in Mendota.
Hy-Vee was a bit of a disaster as a storm caused a last minute race change as they altered the Olympic distance to a 400m, 20K, 5K. The swim and bike were both a little bit long, and the start was changed to a time trial beach start instead of a wave start.
My swim was pretty good, but I found myself struggling on the bike, especially the second half coming back toward transition. On the way out, the wind was relatively calm, but it was blowing hard by the time I got to the U-turn. My trip back was almost three minutes slower than on the way out and I found myself losing a lot of ground on the bike.
I went pretty hard straight away on the run and found that I had someone to run with, which was a bit of a relief. The other guy and I pushed each other all the way to the finish, catching another young runner who ended up sprinting away from us in the home straight. My run of 17:04 was respectable, along with my 3rd place finish in the 20-24 and 32nd overall finish out of 1340 competitors.
After a solid week of training I ran in the Mendota 5K this morning. I went out aiming at the relatively slow 16:44 course record. I was a bit nervous at the start though because there were a couple guys that looked pretty tough. Right away two guys took the lead and I sat in behind them. After two minutes one of them had already begun to fade leaving me alone with one guy. Four minutes in, I could already hear him laboring so I decided to make a move since I was feeling pretty comfortable. I quickly gapped him and just worked to stay ahead. I passed two miles in 10:26 and slowed a little bit over the last mile when I knew I had the race in hand. I finished in 16:26, 29 seconds up on the next runner, sewing up the course record!. I'm pretty fired up about the run because it's a PR and it really wasn't too difficult. I was hurting, but definitely not maxing out; I know I have a lot more in me.
We're heading back to Texas tomorrow so things will be back to normal. Thanks for reading!
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