I haven’t done a Mermaid triathlon since my first year doing tris, 2007. Let’s revisit that fine day before we talk about what happened today….
Oh, there’s Molly, 2nd to last out of the water. Not in my wave, OVERALL.
Ow, those bike hills hurt. (Notice that I'm returning to transition with a full bottle of sports drink too LOL)
At least I knew how to run!
Well, so it seemed like a fun idea to do another Mermaid this year – it’s a small local race series for women and a number of my friends were going to do it. I was looking forward to getting to push myself over a relatively short distance and just see how it went.
0.25 mi swim (but actually ended up being 0.35 mi swim): 12:18 2007 time: 23:32
T1: 1:07 My fastest T1 ever! And it included wetsuit removal!
12 mi bike: 40:09 (17.9 mph – the fastest I’ve ever averaged in a race!) My instructions were to ride like I wasn’t running after – a nice experiment to see if I could push well! 2007 time: 11 miles + T1 + T2, 50:29
T2: 0:51 My fastest T2 ever!
2.5 mi run: 19:49 (7:55/mi) 2007 time: 22:36 (9:02/mi)
Finish time for ~14.75 mi: 1:14:25 2007 time (13.75 mi): 1:39:33
So, a 25 minute race PR!
Post-race I was still completely drenched from the swim! It was foggy out and I never dried off the whole race.
I spent a little time visiting with Mermaid friends and then headed home to ice-bath, eat and relax.
I had to focus on recovery for the rest of today – tomorrow begins another race week! After Knoxville, we decided to add another Olympic to my schedule – I’ll be racing the Silicon Valley International next Sunday. So light and easy this week to recover and prepare.
Hope you all had a great weekend!
13 comments:
A freakin' 25 minute PR!!! Holy smokes! Molly, your year has just been full of amazing accomplishments. I love that you decided to revisit one of your very first races to see what you could do with it now. That kind of improvement certainly makes all of this day-in-day-out SBR stuff super, duper sweet! Big congrats to you!!!!
Congratulations. What an amazing result.
Enjoy your recovery week
Congratulations of such a huge improvement!
Great job Molly! You are like a totally different athlete now! :) Good luck in the next one!
Holy cow you kicked butt in that race, congrats!!! 25 minutes is huge! Good luck with your upcoming races.
You are really stringing it all together now, Molly! Well done!!
SWEEEEEEETTTTT!
We are Iron, we can do anything.
Thanks for the inspiration for my big push year.
So excited for you.
what's up SPEEDY?! congratulations! you kicked some serious ass my friend!
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thanks dear!
If anyone gets too close to you, they might get burned...YOU ARE ON FIRE!
SOLID race, Molly!!!
You sure were fast on those transitions. That's what I need to work on for sure over the summer in order to do well on short course races. Congrats on all the amazing improvements from 2007!
Good grief you're on fire this year! You just keep knocking the old numbers out of the park!
NICE race! So fun to compare year over year :-) Congrats!
AWESOME JOB!!! Such improvement is great to see. ELF is right--you're on FIRE.
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