Kerr Lake

i decided to jump in the kerr lake race. its a really great oly about an hour from home. even though BOTH times i've done it the swim has been long.....

they added an open wave to the race this year. i'm still not sure how i feel about this wave. depending on who and how many, you can be racing by yourself the entire time. thats NO fun. anyway on to the race...

the swim looked long to start with. turns out it was WAY long and getting longer as one of the buoys had come undone.

i love this picture for 2 reasons. first i (on the right)acutally look like a good swimmer. sweet. and second, i'm swimming right next to alicia parr. how often can i say that? :) my problem on the swim started when (according to bobby watching on shore) "you were swimming fine, a bee line to the first buoy when all of a sudden you took a hard right...". WTF. i need a black line in the lake...

i swam 90% of the race with the dude behind me and we finally caught no shirt guy around the last buoy.


here i am running by feeling good off the swim (had the stars aligned?) even though it was WAY longer than 1500.


i will say my transitions rocked. in and out. and off on the bike. i was testing out a new front 808.


i felt OK on the bike. a few guys passed me but other wise i was all alone. it started raining, like pelting drops, and i was actually shocked, having not looked at the weather i was not expecting that at all. oh yea, i almost got hit by a truck. the first big intersection was unmanned. our direction had stop signs and the cross traffic did not. i rolled up to the intersection expecting a volunteer or police. nada. good thing i slowed as a monster pickup was flying thru. i screached and nearly skidded to a stop. yikes.


heading out on the run i felt pretty good. it was nice to pass back a few of the guys who blew by me. nothing spectacular time wise, but a solid run. good enough to put me 2nd OA.


notice my horrific running form. perhaps i need to work on that chicken wing cross over a bit.. huh?


congrats to alicia - who KILLED it yesterday. she had the lead for the entire race. as in she beat all the men (well except one guy). awesome.


thanks sherpa.


and in "thats gross" news. i finally ordered one of those soft chip bands and will no longer be using the hog ties they give you. this is acually worse than it looks. and yes my feet are tore up from my flats.. but only in that one spot...