It's September in Minnesota. Its cold in the morning. I don't like it. Race day was no different.
This race starts at 8:30 in the morning because we usually don't even see the sun until 8 ish this time of year. We woke up at almost 6 because of the late start. Getting to the transition area we were still one of the first groups of people there, and I thought we were getting there late.
I sat in the car after putting my bike and setting up transition, because it was way warmer in the car.
Getting to the swim start was easy but the actual swim start was a total mess. I mean it's the 10th year of this race and they don't have a system down yet. Whatevs. White Bear Lake is a shallow lake with lots of weeds, so there's that. I ran about 100 yards before being knee deep. The swim went ok considering I haven't swam since end of july.
Getting that done was good. So I took off onto the bike, knowing I would crush it. I made up time of a few long course people and never had anyone pass me. That makes you feel good. I wore gloves for the whole 40k because I would have frozen my fingers. The wind wasn't helping much either. It was pretty strong, not a fan. I came into T2 with a solid bike and got ready to kill the run. I took off and felt really really good. 7 minute miles on the dot was my average. Which I thought was pretty dang good for me. It ended up being my second fastest 10k in competition this year, after my Trinona Run. The only good thing about the cooler weather is that it make running crazy easier. I get to the turnaround and only saw 3 people ahead of me, how is that possible? Two of the three ahead of me were pros so there's that. I felt good and kept the same pace all the way back and finished feeling good.
After all that the race didn't give out awards because of their lack of organization. Which is sad. All the people that came out to race and didn't get to know how they placed or anything is really sad. So as soon as they said that we packed up and left.
So defenitly one of my best Bike - Run performances this year, too bad it was not recognized. 4th overall.
That's the end of my 2015 season officially! It was quite the year, with all my races from sprint to 70.3 . It just reminds me why I love this sport and that I feel I'll be around for a long time to come. I may do some 5k's on a whim this fall, so we will see.
Time to take some time off and hit er hard for Ironman Boulder next year!
