Splash and Dash

O.k. time to start blogging again... more on why tomorrow. But today was the second Splash and Dash here in Colorado Springs.... swim... run.... no bike. I love it! These races are basically a 40 minute hard effort... they hurt, but it's fun.

Chris Bagg was here and I was really worried about him running past me. So the horn goes off and I hammer the swim. It's two 1/2 mile loops, so I took a peek at my lead half way through the swim and just tried to build on it. Then had a terrible transition and started running. I hit the first mile mark in 5:45, that was 10 seconds faster than two weeks ago. Mile 2 was 5:55, also 10 seconds faster than the last race. But I was starting to hurt, I tried to just relax and stride it out. I knew that Chris would have to be flying to make up time on me, but I still had 1.75 mile to go. I missed the last mile marker split but using the 2 mile mark I could see I was still just under 6 minute mile pace (the course is 3 loops of 1.25 miles so you see the markers for the all the mile each lap). I finally take a look back to see if I could see Chris and thankfully I didn't. So I just keep it smooth to the finish.

The swim was a little long probably, but you won' ever hear me complain about that. Now it's bed time and decide in the morning if I want to go to swim practice.